Hiya friends! It's been far too long since a post or update on Warcube, so let's talk! 🙂

It really does mean a lot to me. Warcube is truly on my mind. I think about it every day, and I really want to finish it, and have every motivation to continue and do so. But development is officially on pause for right now.

As some of you may know, apart from life being it's usual busy (the joke is that I have like 3,348 kids by now lol) the game has been getting a huge restructuring. Like we're talking a complete foundational rebuild. This doesn't mean like crazy new graphics or anything like that, but more the *base* that the game is built on is getting changed. It's a bit like moving a house that's already been built. Which is especially tricky with a game like Warcube, that has almost 3 years of work and updates. But I feel (and some recent reviews certain support) that the game where it stands is broken. So my plan is to see if I can currently pause purchases of the game, and anyone who would like to take advantage of Steam's return policy won't offend me at all, I totally get it and would encourage you to 🙂 and if you have the game, don't worry you'll still be able to play it and will get first access to the Warcube revamp!

But don't get me wrong, I don't say this as an excuse, but a genuine reason as to why many of the reported bugs are starting to stack up. I'm definitely stretched more than thin between maintaining the old foundation, and building the new one. And if I'm being honest, like you, I'm way more excited in life about the future than the past 😄 (except when it comes to medieval stuff, I think current life could use a lot more trebuchets in it nowadays! Scifi trebuchets for the win!)

Worry not, the beloved slow motion epic combat and charming yells of your troops in battle is staying. But the sprawling world map currently in the game will be retired, and in it's place will be a new more manageable map that can be interacted with in more fun and meaningful ways. In addition, the game will become much more of a roguelite than it is currently, with replayability and being put into cool combat scenarios a key feature. And as everyone knows, I'm a huge fan of easter eggs and surprising people, so there will be plenty of things to discover 😉

you can always head over to https://iswarcubeupdatingsoonornot.com/ to see!

is that I have a some super fun projects in the works which I'm lucky to have more development support on than Warcube. Working on these projects helps me get better at working on Warcube. For example so far it's given me a chance to work on things like mission structure, special moves, localization, upgrading things in general, and customization! Which we can all agree are super great things I've struggled with integrated into Warcube across Early Access so far. And of course while a lot can change, unofficially I think it's only fair that people who have already purchased Warcube should get any game I make that comes out *before* Warcube, for free. All they'll have to do is ask me 🙂

One of those projects hasn't been officially announced yet, but since we're friends I'll give you a sneak peek 😜 I'd like you to meet Coin Hogs! A first person action game that takes place above the clouds, where you'll fly airships (that have trebuchets on them), siege castles in the sky, and take care of your home which also happens to be a tavern. If that sounds like your sort of thing, sign up here to get access to the alpha before anyone else 💪! The current Warcube Discord is also a great place to follow along!

(which is a super lovely place full of kind and caring people who are absolute warriors) Soon the server will be transitioning into a company server! Never would I have thought I'd have multiple games being made 😂 but here we are! So in a few weeks I'm proud to announce the Warcube Discord will officially become the JAM RASCALS Discord! It'll be the same fun place full of nice friends, questionably good puns, and great emojis! All Rascals welcome! 😁

and you're more than welcome to ask me questions about any of this stuff 😁 (and anything else, though questions like 'why are we here' are harder to answer). Thanks for going on this adventure with me, I'm excited for what's next, but let's not forget the GIF that started it all ✨

- craigz

🔹Fixed data corruption with old saves loading
🔹Removed update timer because it's totally embarrassing at this point lol
🔹Relinked 5 scenes that were stuck on loading black (let me know if you find others! Bup I'm looking at you! :D)


Quick patch! More fun things coming soon 💪 thanks for being patient with me!
- craigz

Hiya Friends! 👋

Thanks for being patient with me these past few months, I wanted to give a quick status update to let you know that I'm alive and cranking along :D My hope is that I'll be able to do one of these every week or so showing off or at least talking about progress, because otherwise I turn into a hermit💪



Let me answer some quick questions I've gotten! ✍

In short. YES!

YES! Though I have been slow because I've had the lucky opportunity to kick off a super secret project at the company I work at... more on that later 😉

I'm working on reworking the backbone of the game, this will really end up changing how the game is played so much, and I'm starting with the map. Currently the map is this sort of vague hodge podge of exploration and wannabe sandbox style gameplay with a shaky form of progression. I'd like to shift it to something a little bit more clear, so whether you play for 10 hours straight or pop in every couple months you'll know exactly what to do.

At it's core, the stages are going to be a bit staggered, where for example in this picture, you own the blue, and the white zones are levels ready to be played, and the red ones are levels you are not able to play yet. Of course you can still explore around some portions of the map that are not locked by a geographic reason (such as a bridge that gets raised once you take over the location), but by and large the map will "slowly" open up vs. always be open like how it is now. Also, worry not, there will still be secret locations 😉


My hope is that changing the map will help me create a process for more objectively working on the game 💪


What do you think of the potential changes to the map? Like, disklike, indifferent? Let me know! As well as any questions or topics you'd like me to cover! 😁

Cheers,
craigz

Introducing a remix on last years "Castle Clicker" Mobile Minigame 🏰 Though rest assured, this time I'm not entirely swapping out the game entirely. Because last time I did so it resulted in a few bad reviews like this one, poor soul thought I would actually swap the game over to a clicker 😂

Ahhh well, such is life! That being said... if you haven't reviewed the game already, please go be a good Warling and do so to help the rebellion! It helps the Steam Gods determine who gets show Warcube, which is always crazy helpful!🙏

Official Warcube Discord Server.

• April Fools minigame now has bombs, one time upgrades and hot air balloons
  
• Do you like the header image? You can now check it out in game by clicking the update image on the main screen!
  
• Special event unlockable weapon!

If you've filed a bug, just wanted to let you know i've got them filed here for a reference of what's been fixed as well as needs testing 🐛🔨 or feel free to click the image and it'll take you right there.



I'm looking for a few people to test some of the bug fixes to make sure they are indeed, fixed 🔨 click the chart above and take a peek at the 'Test if Fixed' column. Then let me know on the forum or Discord channel your results 💪
Official Warcube Discord Server.

Welcome to the bottom paragraph folks! This update was a lot of fun to put together :D I was going to do Warcube FPS Edition, but honestly, it's too much fun, it deserves it own game 😂 though maybe ya'll can test it next year haha 😁 I've been getting a system and schedule together for pushing forward with the game, as well as address bugs and performance. There seems to have been a pretty big performance hit from Update 55, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly what could have caused it. Thanks for being patient with me while I do so, I take things like that pretty seriously. Because while I love slowmo, I don't consider 10fps to be slowmo 😜Thanks for reading, it means a lot to me, give a shout anytime friends!

😆

Also if you haven't already, go buy Mount & Blade: Bannerlord, it's incredible🎠

-craigz

I've ditched boring update names like "0.4.15v1" for something that you know, sounds like a human wrote it 😉 Like a good old regular number that corresponds with what update it is! Though I will say, I don't actually know if this is my 55th update, but it's gotta be somewhere around there, or even more (we should ask Myriad 🤷‍♂️)

Welcome to the very first 'State Of Warcube' post. After nearly a year of no major update, I feel this is totally necessary. But before I start, I just want to say how incredibly thankful I am to every person who reached out to me on every platform (specially my Discord fam) with encouragement, kind words, and gentle prods of 'when will you update things?' as well as the ever unique 'hello?' (looking at you Bup). Suffice to say it's probably easier if I give a timeline of the past year to better put things into perspective. But to be succinct for you TL;DR folks out there: I really broke the game and started also working full-time.

1. November 2018: Was working on my first boss fight and physically moving states
2. December 2018: Moved, published a beta build, and started a full-time job.
3. January-March 2019: Broke the game by upgrading unity and not backing things up, like a fool
4. April - August 2019: Patched nearly every broken scene in the game to get it where things were roughly before.
5. Sept - December 2019: Worked way through backlog of bugs amidst full-time job. Again, I really struggle with time management at this point.
6. January - February 2020: Had another kid, finished fixing the arena, publishing beta builds again.
7. Now: Published the first of many updates for the 2020 year, featuring basically everything the game had in it before, as well as a few new things ;)

I've recently gone through and looked through my original Early Access descriptions on Steam (oof) and have decided I need to revamp them to better communicate my goals with the game, and my sincerity to finishing it. Everyone who knows me will understand the grit I have with finishing projects, and also my complete paralysis that comes from wanting to DO EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME. This is on my list to do for next week 😁 (good timing with your message Myriad!)So bear with me, and if my new descriptions don't fit your experience with owning the game these past few years, let me know :)

- Arena mode is back
- New start screen
- Mac version is stalled for a bit due to some new build criteria via Apple

- A million bugs have been fixed
- Slight performance improvements in large levels

I'm adding a new section to help guide all the incredibly passionate people I've met who just want to help. Sometimes this will be a useful section, other times it wont. BUT. Right now, I could REALLY use help identifying other REALLY obnoxious bugs in the game, I'm not talking about the occasional clipping through walls and stuff, more the things that happen that really ruin the game while playing it. Here's some information on how to best describe a bug (to better help me fix it!). Or even just providing images and succinct descriptions is VERY helpful, similar to what Hedgie did here.

Or list some details in the #issues-and-bugs channel of the Discord Server. I'm a little behind on logging them just a heads up :D

Oh hey! You've made it to the bottom paragraph! Boy are you in for a treat ;) this is the little section where I just say hi. To you specifically. And this time I just want to take the time to say thank you. Thank you for being patient with me, thank you for believing in me, and for really being the kind of friend, player, fam a developer really appreciates :) making Warcube has changed my life in so many ways, and being able to connect with REAL people who are REALLY passionate about life in some way, is the biggest source of encouragement to me. So hey, have a great day... OR RATHER... have a great week! Wake up tomorrow and dig into life, it's certainly strange and wonderful (even amidst The Great Plague™)

-craigz

I hope everyone is buying games that they've had on their wishlist for a while and enjoying exploring new worlds ːsteamhappyː

I just wanted to do a quick post and let everyone know I am alive and well! :D

HA! Good question! I realized that I've told everyone on the Discord server, but not here ːsteamfacepalmː about 6 months ago I took the plunge and made a huge engine upgrade for Warcube and sadly, while it made a lot of things better, it also broke a TON of stuff :( so I've been spending a lot of time fixing things as well as catching up on some life (we moved again, back to Seattle, USA) ːsteamhappyː

I've almost got saving/loading working for the battle editor! :D





You bet! :D full of nice people who love all things slomo and swords :P
--> discord.gg/Warcube

Thanks for your patience and support, it means a lot to me :D let me know what games you've got your eye on for Summer Sale ;) I just picked up Everspace!

ːsteamhappyː

-craigz

Heyyyy friends! So I've been really inspired lately by some super fun mobile games with shady gameplay and lots of loot boxes! I hope you'll enjoy the direction I've decided to take Warcube with this latest update. It's gone live officially since April 1st in beta testing.

I've heard from people that this is the REAL way to make money with game development! ;)







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Come on guys, I'm totally kidding :P

But seriously, enjoy the update, just having some fun with it this week! Then I'll be swapping it back to the prior update ;)

I'm still working hard on Warcube, just been going through a TON of bug fixing. I recently upgraded to a new version in the game engine I'm using (Unity) to use a bunch of cool features to speed up development, unfortunately it broke quite a bit, but hey! Totally going to be worth it! :D


Hope everyone has been doing more than well!

-craigz

I hope everyone has been eyeing a game or two for the Steam winter sale, I know I have! ;) Warcube itself will be 25% off it's current price!

This will be the BEST time to pick up the game if you're looking for a great deal. Development has been moving forward with some exciting things in the works, moving into spring I feel confident bumping up the price to match with the level of development that's been done this past year and a half (once arena mode get's patched up ːsteamsadː).

Once again, thank you EVERYONE for all the great support both on here as well as Discord, you've been an unending source of happiness, bug finds, and great ideas for as long as I've known you!

Enjoy your next week, and don't be a stranger!

-craigz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iOdmDSupuY

Full of all sorts of fun little sneak peeks, mainly from this update! :D


***MAC BUILD IS USUALLY A DAY LATE, MESSAGE ME IF IT'S LATER THAN THAT***

I'm super pumped to introduce the BATTLE EDITOR! I've been having a blast building it, and better yet, playing it :D It's been a very busy past month, inbetween building this editor I've ALSO been planning out our next move :) our year of living rural has come to an end, and we're now scoping out where to move to next. Just wanted to say thank you again for all your support, Warcube is going strong thanks to YOU! :)

Also, just a little sneak peek! Warcube's base price will be going up soon, nothing too drastic, but I feel the development has progressed enough that I feel comfortable that it's worth more, I'll probably do a sale soon, so keep an eye out for any friends that haven't gotten it yet ;)

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Okay so really everything under here deals with the battle editor, so just enjoy the GIFS :P


Still placing units by hand? BOOORING. Place a row or two!


Use the menu at the far right to change biomes, currently theres:

• Highlands
  
• Snowdrift
  
• Desert
  
• Island

Just add water in the scene options, raise and lower the height to find interesting playing fields :D


Use the snapping editor (top left) to place things at nice intervals.


You can also lock certain groups of objects so they don't get deleted. Just click the matching icon for them on the top left. For instance,if you place walls, and only want to delete your 100 archers ON them, but the not walls... just lock your environment.


Clicking on units will cycle through their orders: Attack, Guard, Hold Position.


Slow down or speed up the battle, and get rad views like this :P spawning in as the player is totally optional!


A battle from the air, such beauty :P



--> discord.gg/Warcube

Thanks for reading, or looking in general, I really enjoy putting these together so I hope you get something out of it :) thanks for all the support, I really mean it! Let me know any sort of fun traps/units/things you want to see in the editor next! :D

I've been experimenting with adding faces... thoughts?


ːsteamhappyː

-craigz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWurgEFDqCE&index=1&list=PLPu_-jYYmkck5vpImRr_E20mFmUsw9bt_


There's 3 new beta locations, all at varying degrees of done-ness :) if you can't tell already, my goal is loosely block in locations for a whole area of the map. One thing that I've found difficult with the Old Kingdom area, is how every few locations I'd create some new feature for the game, and suddenly certain locations are obsolete, or need a redesign :/ I'm hoping that by iteratively completing zones of the map, this will make that less jarring AND allow for better early feedback :D



If you're not sure how to enable Beta Location mode, check it out HERE! and be sure to send me feedback either through the feedback towers, on DISCORD or via the online feedback form here!

***MAC BUILD IS USUALLY A DAY LATE, MESSAGE ME IF IT'S LATER THAN THAT***


Well what to say :) it's officially been a year since I moved to where we are now (literally the middle of nowhere). It's been a year of ups and downs, living rural has been a lot of fun when its warm out, but when its cold and you've got a kid thats learning to walk... not so much :P this update is a little late because I've also been prepping my portfolio for another move somewhere, though we're not quite sure where yet ><

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Shoutout to Dartel for mocking these up a couple months back :D I think they're super slick :) I've got a video codec bug to fix, then after that should be rockin! :D



Now you can build siege ladders! They're not the most expensive (or sturdy). But if you mass 'em, then you can probably get some units up on the walls :D



Also introducing siege bridges! Perfect for moats or detached towers :)

• MAP - fixed flycam to now aim with MMB, little wonky still ;)

• MAP, army units clip through map.
  
• CAM, clipping with tall structures + buildings.
  
• Arena Mode under construction again

--> discord.gg/Warcube



Well, its been a bittersweet past couple weeks for me. Realizing that it's been a year since we moved here has been strange. I guess I just realize how MUCH can get done in a year, as well as how little sometimes? But I know thats life :) and there's been some weeks where I feel SO busy and gotten a ton done, and other weeks where I've ALSO been very busy... but feel restless by the end of it feeling like I haven't accomplished anything. Thanks for sticking with me, and helping improve this little game :) it's been a blast :D

ːsteamhappyː

-craigz