Jeff of Just Press Start writes:
"Chris Park and Erik Johnson from Arcen talk to Jeff and Xes about game design, the beauty of procedurally designed worlds, making players care about an in-game universe and more in this informative and entertaining interview! Specifically, they describe their upcoming title “A Valley Without Wind” from it’s top-down exploration roots to the Metroid-vania style survival/exploration it has become. Look for a separate article soon describing the beta in more detail- This is another title you should be watching closely- March can’t come soon enough!"
Arcen Games, which had just released Starward Rogue to much positive reviews, had to lay off almost all its staff, effective from this coming Monday.
Chris Park: "Postmortem sounds so grisly, doesn't it? I was tempted to call this a retrospective, but that sounds a bit foofy. So here we are. This isn't even a true retrospective, because AI War is still going strong and looks to remain that way for some time.
The time period this postmortem will examine is May 2009 through the end of May 2013."
A great video game chat for you today. theMulticast is joined by Josh and Chris of Arcen Games. These guys know games and come from a great history of them. They bring with them their newest game, Skyward Collapse. This game is something else. Skyward Collapse truly makes you feel like an all powerful...A-hole. We get to the bottom of what makes a videogame difficult and challenging yet at the same time rewarding and fun.
Listen to these gamers drop knowledge while you can. I'm sure my constant fighting with @Corib3ar scared them away for life.
