PRESS RELEASE Skyward Collapse Launches May 23 Unique turn-based god game to be priced at $4.99 for Windows PC and Mac OS X Arcen Games is pleased to announce its turn-based god game Skyward Collapse is set to launch on Steam next Thursday, May 23rd. How do you balance a war between towns without letting…
DetailsThis one contains a huge chunk of the “base game” (not part of the expansion) work going into 7.0. Following the expansion’s theme we’ve just put a lot of work into updating the AI itself to better deal with the many additions and changes made to the game over the last few years, and also…
DetailsThe Skyward Collapse OST is very different from other soundtracks that I’ve composed for our games. To start with, this is the first soundtrack that I’ve co-composed with someone else. Ted Hardin is a good friend of mine, an incredibly talented guitarist, and a master of melody in my humble opinion. By that I mean…
DetailsHow do you balance a war between towns without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a thriving landscape of villages against the threat of bandits and mythological powers? Skyward Collapse places you into the role of The…
DetailsThis one contains many visible changes but mainly a lot of behind-the-scenes changes in preparation for the upcoming “Vengeance of the Machine” expansion (more details to come on that fairly soon). Some of those changes are peeking out from behind the curtain: the AI’s Guardians are now becoming another source of variety between games (i.e.…
DetailsI became aware of Nick Trujillo through the Strip Search reality show that Penny Arcade has been running. Nick was my personal favorite to win, so I was surprised to see him eliminated when he was. Bad days happen to everyone, though. I have a huge love of comics in general, and so had been…
DetailsEven with a recent detailed interview that we did about our upcoming game Skyward Collapse, there have been a lot of questions about the game from our players in the forums. Rather than make you hunt through forum threads for the answers we’ve provided, we’ve collected them here! Note: these are all taken out of…
DetailsThis one … does a lot. In this release we’re mainly we’re answering a recent community poll by making its top results more attractive places to spend Knowledge (though the Raid Starship actually got its treatment for this in 6.023). Specifically: 1) Turrets in general. The combat stats are something of a sidegrade, though on…
DetailsSkyward Collapse is heading to 1.0 in just about a month, and beta within about two weeks. We’ll have more details on the game as we get closer and closer to that time, plus a few other surprises that I think you’ll find very fun. In the meantime, I’d like to share with you this…
DetailsThis one congratulates the 4 winners of our recent “bug of the year” poll by… well, exterminating them. Sometimes it’s tough being the winner. #1 was a longstanding-but-not-really-noticed-until-recently problem in the mapgen logic causing all Advanced Research Stations, Fabricators, and various other (though not all) capturables to seed only on planets controlled by the first…
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