Lots of bugfixes and balance tweaks in this one. Also a number of performance improvements, especially to cutting out the lag in the lobby from the last few releases. A few GUI tweaks also made it in, hopefully making the interface easier than ever to visually parse and use. Enjoy! P.S. — This is a…
DetailsIn this recent article at Resolution Magazine, Joel Goodwin discusses the effect of destructive criticism on game developers. Yours truly is one of a handful of developers quoted in there a couple of times, which is cool, but it’s a rather important article regardless of my ties to it. In the end, I think Gabe…
DetailsHot off the heels of the recent 3.700 beta of the new AI War 4 comes this new bugfix-laden version. Seriously, that’s a lot of release notes for it having been the weekend! Predictably, there were a number of issues with the prior beta version, and this new beta resolves most of the serious reports;…
DetailsWell! It’s been a long time since we’ve done a beta release. About a month, which around here is just absolutely ages. The porting of AI War to the new engine has been… intense. No more so than we knew it would be, but that’s still quite a challenge. That said, we’ve been busy adding…
DetailsWe’re still hard at work on the AI War 4.0 work, which should be hitting the initial public beta today or tomorrow (for real this time). In the meantime, if you’re interested in facts and figures about the costs of indie game development, you might enjoy this article that came out on PC Gamer’s website…
DetailsView Larger Version Exclusive first peek at a new music track coming in AI War 4.0! Check out how the tempo shifts around 1:40 or so in the video — Pablo’s outdid himself, as usual. The entire AI War (and The Zenith Remnant) soundtrack is fully remastered for the upcoming AI War 4.0, but there…
DetailsTidalis: “It’s evident from the onset that a vast amount of passion was poured into this game, from the superb piano-and-string musical score to the detailed and smoothly animated backgrounds… Seriously, the effort poured into this game cannot be stressed enough. You can submit scores to twitter, customize the appearance of blocks, even directly edit…
DetailsThe fact that Arcen is debt-free is an important point, and I wanted to make sure that didn’t get lost in the larger posts from the other days. Why is that so relevant? It means that, in the grand scheme, the company as an entity is in no danger of disappearing whatsoever. Even in this…
DetailsMANY, many thanks here, everyone. A lot of great ideas came up through the forums discussion on this, as well as in the comments on my last post, as well as on Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s post about this, as well as elsewhere. Some great work has already been done getting the word out the press,…
DetailsMost game companies probably wouldn’t share this stuff, and certainly not on their front page, but as our fans know we’re not like most game companies. So… To put it bluntly and briefly, at present we’re only bringing in about one half of the minimum money we need to survive as a company, and that’s…
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