Indie review site Bytten was among the first three sites to review AI War last year. Today the 2010 iteration of their annual Ernie awards has come out, and (spoiler alert) AI War: Fleet Command received the Best Overall Game award from them. We’re couldn’t be more pleased, as they were one of Arcen’s earliest…
DetailsIf you or someone you know hasn’t yet taken the plunge into AI War or its first expansion, now’s a great time to pick it up! Today is the start of a week-long sale at Steam on both AI War: Fleet Command and AI War: The Zenith Remnant. If you’re already an AI War player,…
DetailsOver at Indie Game News, where Arcen’s Chris Park is a contributing writer, we’ve revealed a new screenshot of our upcoming puzzle game Tidalis, along with major news: Arcen is going cross-platform with a move to Unity 3D. It is not yet certain whether or not that will affect AI War down the road, but…
DetailsI get mail from time to time from aspiring indies, and recently I was asked an intriguing question: “The fact is that I have no idea what is the average number of sales for indie pc games… more like 10,000 or 30,000? More? Less? I know it’s around 50 000 for XBLA titles but I…
DetailsIndie developers Arcen Games, Cryptic Comet, and Positech Games have joined forces to bring strategy fans the ultimate bundle: Gratuitous Space Battles + The Tribe Expansion, Solium Infernum, and AI War + The Zenith Remnant Expansion. This weekend only, the three companies are offering this special package for a mere $49.99 (for the math impaired,…
DetailsOkay, so you’ve seen the post I made about the Indie Strategy Bundle, which was just a re-post of Cliff’s, Vic’s, and my press release. Cliff and Vic, naturally, made much more interesting posts on their own blogs, talking about the context of the bundle, their own feelings about it, etc. I thought I’d add…
DetailsSince January, Arcen’s focus has shifted from large-scale development of AI War to our other upcoming titles — with AI War, our intent had been to simply maintain and refine the existing game, while adding a handful of exciting new features every month as free DLC. As you may imagine, therefore, we were quite surprised…
DetailsI am a bad, bad man for not having blogged about this sooner. Last year I blogged about How I Chose SlimDX as my graphics/sound/etc library of choice. And I’ve been meaning to blog about how I chose my network library, and what I think of it, yet have failed to do so. This was…
DetailsI’m not known for being brief, but I’ll try to keep it as short as possible for this post. Fact is, I have a ton of work I should be doing on Tidalis, but I was struck by inspiration today after watching the various shows of the Penny Arcade TV Show, which I hadn’t managed…
DetailsArcen’s currently-inwork puzzle game now has an official name: Tidalis. The teaser preview for the game has been updated to show the game’s new logo, as well as a lot of the game’s current art. Please bear in mind that most of the middle-ground sprites are currently missing from the shown backgrounds, and that the…
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