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ZeroK: Zero-K v1.5.10.2 – Campaign and Renames

This release marks the beginning of open testing for the Zero-K campaign. Every Sunday we will polish and release a new set of missions for fun and testing. The current release contains five early missions and can be found through Singleplayer -> Ca…

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HyperRogue 10.1: four new lands!

HyperRogue version 10.1 is released on Steam and itch.io! It includes four new lands, and many gameplay, user interface, and graphical improvements. The volcanic activity in the Volcanic Wasteland is extremely unstable. Lava is too hot to walk on. It…

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phrantic walkthrough

I had some free time last night, so I dusted off the old microphone and did a map review and walkthrough of phrantic! Made by cortez, the map is a reimagination of the classic Quake 3 CPMA map with several twists specific to Xonotic. It’s visuall…

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Taisei v1.1 Released!

A few weeks later cough we finally are ready to present the new version 1.1.
Roughly five years ago we had our first release and since then, we did a lot to polish the lose ends and finish where we left off.
The list of changes is very long, but here a…

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ZeroK: Zero-K v1.5.9.3

This month we mostly have fixes and interface improvements. The engine itself has also received a lot of work and is looking quite stable. Notably, unit movement was improved within the engine so now units move in straight lines over short distances wi…

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Endless Sky: Remastered Ship Graphics

Recently I’ve been playing with different ideas for making the ships look less flat and cartoony, and I reached the conclusion that the real problem is that all the ships were rendered with nearly-overhead illumination (30° from vertical). I originally…

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Remnants Development Blog

Alpha 5 of Remnants of the Precursors will be available on December 25th, 2019. You can follow development information and general discussion about the game at https://www.Reddit.com/r/rotp Thanks for…

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Remnants Development Blog

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Losing is fun

This is a response to Christopher Walker’s post Implicit vs. Explicit Failure for Educators and Game Designers. The post makes a distinction between two types of failure: explicit (“you have lost”) and implicit (“you have not succeeded yet”), and argue…

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News from September 2017

News from September 2017New website, forum and moreThe VCMI project now has a modern, static websiteusing Hugo as generator. Everybody is welcome tocontribute on GitHub. Links areprovided for all of our social networks, so check them out and followif y…

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