Arcen’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…
DetailsLast month, I wrote about a hypothetical funding model for indie games development. In it, I posited the question: is there such a thing as an “expert indie developer?” I quickly answered with my belief: yes, it’s possible, and there are examples all around you. This post is about what makes for an expert indie…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to announce the release of AI War: Fleet Command version 3.000. You can download a trial version of the game, as well as purchase a license key to unlock the full version. If you already have the game or demo installed, just hit “Check For Updates” inside the game to get…
DetailsArcen Games is pleased to announce the release of The Zenith Remnant, the first expansion to their hit RTS/4X hybrid, AI War! You can download a trial version or purchase a license key on the details page for the expansion. Thanks to all of our fans who have helped to make this game possible with…
DetailsWork on The Zenith Remnant is finally coming to a close, and the game will be officially released tomorrow — it extends the base game even more than we had planned when we set out to create it. Thanks so much to all of the AI War players whose suggestions really helped take things to…
DetailsIt’s been an incredibly busy time here at Arcen in the last two months, what with Pablo and Chris coming on fulltime and all the paperwork and business stuff that entails, the ongoing development of The Zenith Remnant, our further pre-development of art and design for our next two titles (the first two previews for…
DetailsWork is still in progress on The Zenith Remnant, AI War’s first expansion (due out in the second week of January), but Arcen is finally ready to show some previews of their upcoming projects for 2010. The first preview is a bit brief, but gives you a sneak peek mainly at the art of the…
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