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Skyward Collapse / Steam Early Access

« on: May 13, 2013, 04:27:33 PM »

Happening?

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / Any chance for Steam friends integration for coop?

« on: December 17, 2012, 05:45:22 AM »

I tried to play MP with a friend and we've never been able to connect to each other. Ports are open/forwarded and I really don't know why we timed out all the time. We tried both directions.

So it would really be much better if we could just host a game and join via Steam friends system because that always works unless you sit behind a really tight firewall.
I buy my games on Steam only and please don't take it the wrong way, but I kinda expect games to use it. Don't mean to be rude, but you know... entitled customer and such .

So if it is somehow doable without too much work I'd really appreciate if that is put in later on, even if it is after release.

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Game Development / Check out my game and tell me what you think

« on: November 13, 2012, 12:23:08 AM »

If you, Arcengames are not okay with me basically advertising my game here, just lock it and remove the links, I am fine with that, I'd like some feedback from people though.
Thanks for allowing it .

I uploaded this game to Steam Workshop today, but it is not done yet!
It is a light version of what I am planning to release later with more ships, more backgrounds and more bosses!

Release Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDzlktn4m2s


Downloadable Non-Installer-Version:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5-pGJYVbatLQ1Vza2U5SFNhX1E

Installer:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5-pGJYVbatLU0U2eS1ueC1hR3c

Changelog:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByJ64r7c7ed2-I8FHMz_meEhDRh5LRHPq9NgvEcKkko/edit

Steam Workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=107934091

In a nutshell, you fight evil ships that are coming at you and you level up while doing so! All 4 Levels ( limited atm ) you gain 1 perk point that you can spend.
Perks like:

• 3 shots fired instead of 1
• Base auto heal
• More damage against bosses
• and more

The twist is, that everytime you fail to hit an enemy, it deducts 1 from your multiplier. Shooting them raises your multiplier, except for bosses! So pure button mashers will have a bad time reaching a good score. If you even let an enemy slip past, he is gonna damage your base. If it explodes, you lose, no matter how much health you have. I designed this as a score attack in a robotron style.
There is also 1 additional ship with a different special weapon to unlock.

I hope you have as much fun playing it, as I had making it!

Screenshots:




Legal:
Music is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 Deceased Superior Technician
http://www.dreade.org/nosoap/faq.php

The Font is Copyright (c) 2009, Matt McInerney (http://pixelspread.com|[email protected]),
with Reserved Font Name Orbitron.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

edit:
Updated the game!

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Game Development / Just started using VC++ 2012 Express...

« on: October 22, 2012, 09:22:09 AM »

.. and used <chrono> the first time (from the C++x11 standard). 
Finally no more need to wrap timing functions in xplatform games.
I didn't like QueryHighPerformanceCounter anyway.  Felt very clunky imho.
I know there are several libs out there like boost or SDL/SFML that provide wrappers, but I use OpenGL and use different libs to ensure XPlatform compability.
Using a pure C++ approach to the timing is really cool.

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AVWW Strategy And Stories / Journey to Perfection in Icy Areas

« on: October 18, 2012, 12:27:24 PM »

How do you guys deal with the random falling ice blocks? I think it is stupid but might there be a way around it?

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / This is getting ridicoulus and something else

« on: October 17, 2012, 04:01:37 PM »

That achievement requires you to get 30 upgrades for your Settlement.
I got 11 by now and I am doing a lot of missions to respawn new ones, but I think since I moved my world to Level 2 I am unable to find any more upgrades.
So how does this work? Do I have to kill the overlord and go into NG+ to get more? Do you keep the old ones?
Would be nice of anyone could shed some light.

And since I don't want to make a new topic about that question:
How often do you have to reroll to get the legendaries? At what level do they drop?

I am asking those questions because I try to 100% the achievements on Steam.

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / I think my game broke... or so :D

« on: October 17, 2012, 02:29:34 PM »

I went through all this storm but I can't find the shelter I just built or the mission.
It is not my first one, so I wonder a bit about where it could be. I really looked everywhere.
http://i.imgur.com/ULN7Y.jpg
Any hint? Or can I remove the windshelter somehow to have it recreated?

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / I can finally play the game properly

« on: June 25, 2012, 03:55:46 PM »

I got the game on the day of steamrelease basically, or a few days after and always wondered how you upgrade your town.
With the latest update I finally got the necessary options in the menus and the drops required to upgrade.
So, the last Patch made the game playable at all for me.
Time for playing now I guess .

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AI War / Hard to get into...

« on: May 02, 2012, 06:01:42 PM »

Hey.

I own Tidalis and AVWW from Arcen.
I already looked at AI War some time ago, but with the Demo, I was totally clueless what to do and how to win.
But many people say it is an awesome Tower Defense Game.
I can't justify putting 17€ into this when I don't know if I ever will be able to play it properly.
Don't know what to expect from this Thread, but I would really like to like it .
What should I do?
I am used to Tower Defense with Defense Grid though.

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A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 / [Suggestion] Hotkey sets Spell as primary

« on: May 01, 2012, 12:13:50 PM »

I would rather like to see a system where you can select a spell as primary for the mouse button when you press its number on the Keyboard.
Basically like Terraria.