Arcen Games is pleased to share a large update for its procedurally-generated survival adventure title A Valley Without Wind. Several additions and improvements have been made to the game, including weather, monsters, a new female character, and many other new visuals. Six new monsters have been introduced, looking to pursue and destroy characters who stray…
DetailsThis one fixes some of the balance issues with the blade spawners in the hands of the AI in particular. It also brute-force fixes older savegames, which should be a welcome relief to those affected. Enjoy! This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 4.000…
DetailsIt was just three days ago that I wrote the #9 preview for A Valley Without Wind, and mostly that’s still the best source for the goods on what all is new this time around. However, the big thing we were missing last time was a video, because of a few technical difficulties with the…
DetailsWe’re transitioning the video creation duties from myself to Erik, and in the process of that we’re having a few technical difficulties that are requiring some updates to his machine and so forth. So that’s delayed the video for our progress report #9, but I wanted to go ahead and do a written update (and…
DetailsAs of April 4th, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $18,329.33! A substantial $3,350.91 has come in for the CoN expansion since our previous update in February, 100% of which goes to Child’s Play. We’ll continue to post monthly updates on how the donations are doing. We’re so proud to have been able…
DetailsOver on Indie Game Reviewer Callabrantus has taken the time to check out and give his thoughts on AI War’s recently released Light of the Spire expansion. Some of the more tasty bits: “This latest entry brings with it a healthy variety of new content and features, most notably the campaign modes, while staying true…
DetailsArcen Games would like to pass along word of a new video, developer journal and new release info for its procedurally-generated action adventure title A Valley Without Wind. We have made the significant decision to push back the first public release of AVWW to what we had originally planned for beta. For one, we feel…
DetailsIt pains me to say that we’re delaying the first public version, but Keith and I spent a good while talking about it today, and we agree it’s for the best. We’ve decided to scrap the idea of a public alpha, and instead are going to start with a public beta. In practical terms, what…
DetailsWhen it comes to the perma-death mechanic, the one thing I want to make most clear is that this has no bearing on the difficulty of the game, despite what some folks might expect. In most games with perma-death, that means that the game is very hard. How difficult or easy this game is depends…
DetailsThis video is just a simple lighting test showing off our new way of handling light in AVWW. The older method, using the z buffer, is still available for lower-end graphics cards and computers, but this new model looks way better, and on most computers won’t use that much more CPU/GPU! What We Were Doing:…
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