Keith LaMothe and I are working together on the design and programming of A Valley Without Wind, him with the greater share of programming, me with the greater share of design, though we both do both. This is a bit of a new process for me, despite the fact that I’ve worked with teams on…
DetailsWell! I’ve been so focused on A Valley Without Wind for the last month and a half that I really wanted to make sure AI War was getting the love it needs. Keith has been doing updates for the game the last while, but we haven’t had any really big burn-throughs of the mantis idea…
DetailsThis one fixes a desync that has been haunting my nightmares for months. It’s been incredibly, incredibly rare, to the point that only a few players have ever even seen it. But those players could reproduce it reliably, while almost nobody else could reproduce it at all. Knock on wood, today that saga ends. One…
DetailsAI War 5.0 has received a glowing review from John over on i-luv-games.com. Here’s some of our favorite words: “I love that AI War is so different from every other Real-Time strategy out these days…No other strategy game that I’ve played treats the player to battles of such epic proportions…AI War: Fleet Command is a…
DetailsThis one fixes a bug with savegames in 5.004, and also includes a large selection of balance tweaks requested by players since 5.0. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000 or later. When you launch the game, you’ll see the notice of…
DetailsThis one is very exciting for me personally, because it addresses one of the hugest bugbears for me with the post-Unity-porting version of the game, which is RAM use. As long-time players will know, we’ve already gone through a huge number of gyrations to get the per-frame RAM usage down, with great success, but the…
DetailsThis one has a couple of small fixes and tweaks, but mostly focuses on the top-requested ideas from players. Since it’s been a couple of weeks since the last release, we have a triple-dose of free DLC for you today: the ability to save and load the “controls screen” settings to your disk; a new…
DetailsThe soundtrack for “A Valley Without Wind” is getting off to a great start. For those of you who have heard some of the music in the trailers, you’ll notice the key component in all the pieces: the 8-bit melody. It’s a sound that is not only fun to play with, but nostalgic for any…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to share the latest info and footage for its procedurally-generated action-adventure title A Valley Without Wind. This week we reach a multiplayer benchmark, introduce the Energy Lance spell, implement the minimap feature into the HUD, add new regions, buildings, objects and more. Early multiplayer testing has gone well. In our first…
DetailsHere’s the latest video: New this week: more buildings, more general objects, and some additional regions, as well as a lot more population scripts for the existing regions. There’s also a new Energy Lance spell, which makes cutting through big lines of objects or enemies easier (but it does lower damage to actual individual enemies). …
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