Monthly Archives: January 2023

Ara: History Untold Developer Diary: City Layouts

By | January 30, 2023

The developers of Ara: History Untold have posted 2 in their dev blog, talking about city layouts. They describe the difficulties of having procedurally generated city layouts, which also need to look appealing. Initially they cities appeared like pizzas, with repetetive sectors. They seem to have fixed this problem by definiting some basic layouts, from which the game… Read More »

Old World update #104

By | January 25, 2023

Mohawk Games, the developers of Old World, have released the latest update for their game. This update includes, among other things, bug fixes, AI changes (e.g. optimization for spreading religion) and a balance change to give you a better chance to start with horses in the surrounding. Discuss this update with us here. Old World is currently available… Read More »

Mahokenshi: A turn-based deck builder in a Japanese fantasy setting

By | January 24, 2023

The turn-based deck builder Mahokenshi has today (24.01.2023) been released on Steam.In this game you lead your samurai hero, belonging to one of 4 different houses, through a campaign on a hex-based landscape. You build up your deck of cards, to gain special abilities, with which you will slay all kinds of far-eastern themed fantasy monsters. The game… Read More »

Play the new Civ5 “Game Of The Month” #217

By | January 23, 2023

And also our Civ5 “GOTM” is active this year (although we’re a bit late to announce it here, sorry). In this game, you will play Elizabeth of England, but you’re tied into a team with Bismarck of Germany. It’s a modern era start on a scrambled continents map (DLC required) on Prince level. You have until January 31st… Read More »