New Reviews, Interviews, and Videos for AVWW

The past few days saw several new feature additions to A Valley Without Wind highlighted (at least I'd say) by the addition of the store in 1.009.

Tom Chick talks to Chris for a good two and a half hours on Quarter To Three's podcast, chatting on AVWW, Arcen, some preferred genres, and gaming in general.

Also a reminder that there's still a day or so left in the SavyGamer anniversary sale. Here's the rest of the coverage that's come in this past week for AVWW/Arcen:

[Just Press Start] A Valley Without Wind - Reviewed

[Gather Your Party] Interview: Chris Park, CEO Of Arcen Games And Creator Of A Valley Without Wind

[Gather Your Party] A Valley Without Wind Review

[XBLAFans] Downloadable games growing beyond their bytes

[Gamespot] A Valley Without Wind Review

[BagofGames] A Valley Without Wind Review

[Destructoid] Review: A Valley Without Wind

[2nd Opinion Productions] Arcen Games: A Valley Without Wind Review

[IGN] A Valley Without Wind Review

[Co-Optimus] A Valley Without Wind Co-Op Review

[Hidden Exit] Review: A Valley Without Wind

[I'm Not Doctor Who] #oneaday Day 838: Still No Wind Here

[Gry-Online] Straight from Indie #5 (Polish)

[PlayerAffinity] A Valley Without Wind - Review

Video Coverage

[Tenatios] Let's Try - A Valley Without Wind + Steam Code Giveaway

[RockLeeSmile] Indie Impressions - A Valley Without Wind

[IZTheJack] A Valley Without Wind Part 4 - Our First Mission and Part 5 - Seeking Materials and Part 6 - The Endless Chunk

[SundayGamerHD] Let's Play A Valley Without Wind Part 1 - Kinky Skelebot Dungeons!

[GryOnlinePL] Straight from Indie - A Valley Without Wind] (Polish)

[SoftpediaGamesReview] A Valley Without Wind - Softpedia Gameplay

[NightDiRaven] Let's Play: A Valley Without Wind | Part 1 (Russian)

AVWW Now Available On Desura; New Reviews and Coverage

A few new AVWW items to pass along. First off, post-release 1.007 hit last night, bringing in several new features and improvements. If you've been away from Environ for a couple days, check back in and take another look around.

We're also happy to pass along that A Valley Without Wind is out on Desura. Both the full game and demo are available on their store to download now.

Another awesome note, Total Biscuit/Cynical Brit put together a "WTF Is..." for our game that's can't miss for a variety of reasons and moments in particular.

New Reviews, Impressions, Spotlights, LP Videos, And More

A Valley Without Wind Review | Brave New World -- 9/10 (Jonathan Lester, DealSpwn)

Review: A Valley Without Wind by Arcen Games (Omejia, IndieGamesChannel)

Indie Game of The Week: A Valley Without Wind (TheTechLabs)

Wot I Think: A Valley Without Wind (Jim Rossignol, RPS)

A Valley Without Wind: punching meteors in the face (Tom Chick, Quarter To Three)

A Valley Without Wind -- 7.5/10 (Luigi Guarnuccio, Gamers Haven)

A Valley Without Wind Review -- 3.5/5 (Kevin Alexander, Gamezebo)

A Valley Without Wind -- 5/10 (Marteen Green, Reaction Time)

Indie Impression: A Valley Without Wind (The First Hour)

A Valley Without Wind Review (Cross Platform Gamers)

A Valley Without Wind | Amazing Genre-Blending Platformer (PlayThisThing)

IncGamers Plays: A Valley Without Wind

Wiley Plays! - A Valley Without Wind Part 1 -- Part 2

Delphidelion's Let's play AVWW Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Part 5 -- Part 6

IZTheJack's Let's play AVWW Part 1 -- Part 2

Pickselate's A Valley Without Wind Review Part 1 -- Part 2

LockeVincent's Weekly Gaming Update - DOTA2, Prototype 2, A Valley Without Wind

FrozenDozer's Let's Play: A Valley Without Wind | Episode 1 | Part 1 -- Part 2

Tom Plays - A Valley Without Wind pt. 1A - Life and Death of: "Unlucky Foot"

DrEvilBones' [P1LP2] A Valley Without Wind

Shobbles' We Play - A Valley Without Wind - Pure Gameplay

PAX East 2012 Coverage For A Valley Without Wind

We spent much of our time at PAX East chatting it up with press, filling interview appointments and having them take a quick tour of A Valley Without Wind.

Here's the coverage to come about from our trip to Boston thus far:

John Polson interviews Chris in an excellent piece on IndieGames.com entitled Indie Devs Weigh in on Imitating Versus Innovating.

Platform Nation's Gaming Hands On Quick Hits touches on AVWW's surprising amount of depth.

Nearly 15 minutes of Front Towards Gamer's latest Gametwerp Podcast is taken up by a live interview with Chris.

The intriguing Ditto Monster stopped by for an enjoyable and surprising interview with Chris.

Anthony of TryIndie was trying his backside off all weekend, providing a ton of coverage for us. He has written up interviews with both Chris and Pablo, plus recorded some video footage of the indie game dev panel I submitted and participated in.

Zach Martin of PikiGeek apparently enjoyed his time with AVWW on the first day. He went and published his preview just hours later. Awesome that we caught his attention!

We made Trouble Thinking's list of The Stuff You Should Have Checked Out.

The Gamer's Guide To Life Channel took a short test drive of the game, as well as recording a live interview with Chris on the show floor.

Thrifty Nerd's preview concludes that they can't wait for the April 23rd launch.

Lastly, we were also glad to finally meet Nick Puleo of Co-Optimus. We have several other interviews and coverage still in the works with other outlets—so keep your eyes peeled for those in the coming weeks.

New Interviews, Previews, and LP Videos

So much has happened since we launched public beta for A Valley Without Wind back in late September. In some respects it feels like it's been out forever, when really we've just reached three weeks. It's been fantastic to have anyone interested finally able to play the game. We've received both a wonderful response as well as excellent feedback from players and press alike in such a short amount of time.

A couple of Arcen Games/AVWW items we'd like to direct you to, including a couple of new interviews. Chris chats comprehensively with UsedGameReviews in a just released piece, and Arcen is featured in Play Tribune's Developer Chat audiocast (where Chris and I babble on for over an hour about indie gaming plus all the aforementioned.)

Plenty of Valley-specific stuff below as well. Thanks to all who took the time to talk with us and/or take a look at our game.

Previews/Impressions

[Violent Gamer] A Valley Without Wind Beta Impressions
[Nightmare Mode] Beta Impressions: A Valley Without Wind
[Dealspwn] A Valley Without Wind Beta Impressions | Procedurally Generated Genre Smasher
[Quick Save Podcast] A Valley Without Wind Beta/Demo (8:00-12:00)

Videos

Hold [RESET] Gaming: A Valley Without Wind - Beta - First Look
Hyfrydle32: Let's Play A Valley Without Wind
Onemegatongamer: I will beat a valley without wind
A Valley Without Wind: Beta Gameplay

More Early A Valley Without Wind Coverage

Nearly a week into beta and A Valley Without Wind has cropped up more solid press previews and coverage, including some new videos as well. Thanks goes to these folks for talking time to play the game, have a look at what they're saying!

Games Blog Coverage

DIYGamer: An Isolating Yet Unique Platformer… A Valley Without Wind [Preview Part 1]
Brutal Gamer: A Valley Without Wind (PC) Preview
IncGamers: A Valley Without Wind in beta, available to purchase
Robocade: A Valley Without Wind 50% Off

Video Coverage

GamingFTL: Alpha Watch Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3
Pewpewchewchew's Let's Play: Session 1 -- Session 2

A Valley Without Wind Early Beta Coverage

A Valley Without Wind has been out in beta for less than 48 hours, and already there are some great previews and other coverage coming in!

We definitely suggest you check out Quill18's super informative and captivating two-part LP preview of the game, which in lieu of our getting started guide is a great way to discover the basics of the game.

On the games blogs, IndieGames.com has posted the start of their preview with just an hour under their belt. DIYGamer has some extremely nice words on the game as well. More previews to come from these sources as well as many others!

Here's some of the other awesome coverage on the beta release:

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: A Valley Without Wind Demo And Beta Launch
VG247: A Valley Without Wind offers first public beta client – go get ‘em!

Gnome's Lair: Time to enter A Valley Without Wind

Co-Optimus: A Valley Without Wind Enters Public Beta

UnitLost.com: A Valley Without Wind (Blind Video Preview)

Games.on.net: A Valley Without Wind Goes Into Beta

BNBGaming: The Indie Fix: A Valley Without Wind Now Available

Anjel Syndicate: A Valley Without Wind Public Beta and Demo Now Available
Space Game Junkie: Off-Topic – A Valley Without Wind Released

WorthPlaying.com: 'A Valley Without Wind' Demo Available NOW

IndieGameMagazine: A VALLEY WITHOUT WINDS PUBLIC BETA BEGINS

RPS Exclusive Hands-On With A Valley Without Wind

Over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jim Rossignol has published first impressions of A Valley Without Wind, which marks the first official media hands-on with the beta ahead of its imminent release. Lots of good stuff, but we'll let Jim do the talking. Head over to one of our favorite gaming sites period and check it out.

Also, at the end of the article Jim mentions he'll be posting more on the game soon. So stay tuned for a possible part two of his session!

Two Articles About Arcen In the Chapel Hill Herald-Sun!

There was an article just yesterday in the Chapel Hill Herald-Sun about the upcoming for-charity micro expansion that we're doing for AI War. I didn't even know that article was going to be coming out!

Charity accesses games for children's hospitals

This is the main article that was in the Chapel Hill Herald-Sun yesterday, discussing Arcen a bit in general but mainly Tidalis. That was pretty exciting to see in the news stands.

A video game for all ages

Indie Game News: Exclusive Screenshots: Tidalis now on Unity3D

Over at Indie Game News, where Arcen's Chris Park is a contributing writer, we've revealed a new screenshot of our upcoming puzzle game Tidalis, along with major news: Arcen is going cross-platform with a move to Unity 3D. It is not yet certain whether or not that will affect AI War down the road, but for the moment AI War is staying with its existing platform. More details in the article.

AI War on Fidgit

Just a heads up that Tom Chick has posted a small piece on Fidgit (the SyFy.com gaming blog) noting the new features, and availability via Steam etc.
http://fidgit.com/archives/2009/10/sci-fi_strategy_game_ai_war_ac.php

Well done on getting the game out to Steam and the other digital distributions, I hope the game sells a bundle and the community here expands exponentially. Top work Chris, and all the folks at Arcengames!