I 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…
DetailsHellBored recently conducted an interview with Chris Park about AI War, the reception of The Zenith Remnant, developing games as an individual versus as part of a team, and why developing capable RTS AI is such a challenge for the industry. Read The Interview
DetailsAll the way back in December, Metacritic released their annual list of the year’s best-reviewed games on each platform. Things have been so busy here at Arcen that somehow we missed posting a news item about this, but we thought it was pretty cool to say the least. For a game that started out as…
DetailsRecently an IGF judge accused me of seemingly adding “complexity for the sake of complexity” to AI War. Naturally I disagree with him/her, but I think that it does raise some interesting design questions that are very much worth exploring. So here we are. The Merits of SimplicityFirst of all, let’s talk about simplicity. Simplicity…
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