Right now there’s a huge sale going on at Steam, with many games (including AI War) being on large discount. In a recent comment thread over at Rock, Paper Shotgun, some people were wondering how these sorts of sales affect the profits made by indie developers. I commented there, but thought I’d also turn this…
DetailsGaming Dead: “In a recent interview with Gaming Dead, Arcen Games’ Chris Park, developer of the eight player co-op massive RTS title AI War: Fleet Command elaborated on how he’s implementing a post-launch support model in the form of free monthly DLC updates in the interest of seeing the game become the largest strategy title…
DetailsGaming Nexus recently conducted an interview with Chris Park about AI War, the Arcen Games design philosophy, and a lot of interesting questions about the development/distribution/support of the game itself. Read The Interview
DetailsJustin Vincent recently wrote a blog post about what he calls the Venture Matrix, which is basically a way to create a huge company out of a lot of little companies– or, alternatively/additionally to make it easier to launch successful startup companies. It’s a long article, and it starts out with a lot of semi-tangential…
DetailsThis post is a response to the co-op review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii on Co-Optimus. I’m a longtime fan of co-optimus, and so I found it interesting that they gave NSMBW a 2.5/5 on their co-op review, and a 4.5/5 overall. I’ve had the game for a few days now, and have made…
DetailsFirst off, let me plug the Indie Games Xmas 2009 Calendar. This was something originally proposed over on the excellent GameProducer blog, which we at Arcen quickly knew we wanted to be a part of. The idea is that this is an Advent Calendar wherein every day a new indie game, trailer, or similar is…
DetailsMy views of indie games have forever been altered. When was the last time you played an indie game that contained the amount of content of several retail games? If you have ever played and enjoyed Sins of a Solar Empire but cried because you couldn’t play it on a laptop or that the scale…
DetailsIn celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, we’re having our first multi-product discount sale on our site! Enter code BLLR0018P to get a 25% discount on all games bought directly from Arcen through 11/30/2009. This means that you can pick up AI War: Fleet Command for $14.99 USD, and/or preorder AI…
Details[I]f you love realistic, complex and thorough space-based real time strategies, purchase this game right now as it is an aspiring space commander’s dream. – Tom Clark, AceGamez
DetailsThe Claw has recently conducted a massive Google Wave interview with Chris Park about AI War, other upcoming Arcen titles, Chris’s design philosphy and inspirations, and the future for Arcen Games in general. Read The Interview
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