Archmage Rises News

As we near the final weekend of Next Fest, thank you all for your interest and playing the game! It’s become better and more stable with your participation. This is the reason we are going into Early Access April 2023.

1. Player Request (Alexfrog) – Added tutorial explaining how to use the Hex map
   
2. Player Request (Alexfrog) – In a dungeon, holding the alt key to look around (instead of click dragging). This is to help those with carpal tunnel/RSI.
   
3. Kill quests are now contextual (finally), based on the surrounding lairs. So you a town won’t have goblin quests unless there are actually goblins around harassing the townsfolk.
   
4. Fixed equipment not working, providing the buffs it says. Now it does.
   
5. Fixed getting stuck in encounter “Singing in the Forest”
   
6. Fixed multiple events/encounters locking the game
   
7. Added 5 dynamic quests
   
8. Reduced gather quests down to 5 resources, it was taking forever to find more than that.
   
9. Fixed waiting in town never caused the town to actually wake up
   
10. Fixed town safe zone audio. You can now hear music/ambience when you are in the safe zone around a town provided by its fearless guards. Stepping outside of a towns protection now puts you into wilderness sounds.
    
11. Fixed resolution issue with your funeral once you die.
    

Your save files and worlds from yesterday should work in today's build.

In this update:

1. Fixed the volume sliders yesterday. Now there are 5 volume sliders in a new setting screen we can mess up. ːsteammockingː
   
2. Fixed white flashes during combat casting. It was a VFX busted, replaced with 5 new ones which reflect the spell school you are casting from. Is much nicer!
   
3. Rebalanced too many monster patrols - it was crazy, there were tracks all over the place, sometimes 7 deep on a hex. Maybe the new version is too few patrols, but we think it is much better.
   
4. Fixed monster patrols respecting the safe zones NPCs carve out around Towns.
   
5. Added in 14 more dynamic quests for a total of 34 kinds.
   
6. Fixed the research and learning screen more. It's supposed to be a fun tech tree to learning new spells.
   
7. Fixed dungeon keys not having an icon ːsteamfacepalmː
   
8. Fixed Banished monsters tooltip from being massively too long and just says "immune to all effects"
   

This is the 12th day in a row we've been able to put out a build. That is pretty remarkable for us! It's a sign that the game is way more stable and easier to work with.

Hello Adventurers!



Every life is intimate, unique, and memorable. Feel each playthrough deeply.

• Actually Be in a Medieval Fantasy World – Swear fealty to nobles, gain lands and estate, invest in town shops, move homes, start a family (or several). An unprecedented level of presence in the world.
  
  
• Build a Mage Tower – Use your power and wealth to build an intellectual respite of research or an impenetrable tower of power, and anything in between
  
  
• Unparalleled NPC Interaction – Every NPC is a distinct person of depth. Learn their personality and motivation, conduct business, turn things romantic, or kill them. NPCs remember every interaction and even spread news (sometimes inaccurately) about you.
  

• It’s Your Story – Born with great potential, what will you do with it? Adventure, politic, research, grow in power, but one day you will die by natural causes ending your story. See your impact on the world at your funeral.
  
  
• Total Freedom – Make good, evil, or choices in between. Use your gold to fund an orphanage, or keep prisoners in your mage tower and let them rot. Use your power and influence to bring peace between waring nobles or to instigate a feud. Just like pen & paper its all up to you.
  
  
• Gain in Power – Explore dungeons, discover artifacts of ancient power, visit arcane libraries all to gain skill in 5 distinct schools of magic. Customize you own spells through research.
  

Sat, February 11, 2023 4:00 PM EST
Commander_Orca (Hannah) and game director Thomas will be live on Archmage Rises. This is Round 2: Let's see if Hannah can finish the demo quest! Everything is procedurally generated and AI driven: we have no idea what will happen!

Everything is procedurally generated: Even though I designed the game, I have no idea what will happen!

Join us for an exclusive live streaming event with the team behind the game!

As I write this we are finishing our last day of 2022. It’s been a full year with a much work going into the game. The team is up to 9 full time people now. The game is showing the benefit of everyone working.

Before we end for the year I wanted to let you know what is happening in 2023 with the release of the game, and for those brave enough, to have a little taste of the new build.

Read more here: http://www.archmagerises.com/news/2022/12/23/update-145-2023-roadmap

It's been 18 months since our last combat build... we need to stop doing that. :-p
I didn't want to end the year without doing *something*, so I put up a very buggy preview of the new build on the Beta Branch (follow the link for instructions). We were working past midnight getting it to work. Thanks team for sticking with it!

Thanks for believing in us. The game is showing glimpses of what it can be. I hope it meets your expectations by the time we are done!