Jun 1, 2022

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall - CarbonStudio

Greetings, Warriors of Sigmar!

We’re thrilled to announce that Tempestfall is now participating in the Warhammer Skulls 2022 - Games Workshop’s annual video games festival!

During the Warhammer Skulls Showcase, you will witness many new cool titles announcements, action-packed trailers as well as special discounts on Warhammer games on various gaming platforms. The event starts today - June 1st at 10 am PST / 6pm BST, and ends on June 8th at 10 am PST / 6 pm BST. Be sure to check it out!

Tempestfall will be there too!

We couldn’t miss the opportunity to take part in this awesome event. The Skulls Festival is a real treat for fans of the Warhammer universe, to which we definitely belong! For this awesome occasion, we’ve prepared a -33% discount on Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall for you to celebrate this gaming festival as mighty Lord Arcanum!

What is more, we’ll also release a new patch, which introduces…

The Storm Trials mode!

You'd better prepare for a deadly challenge, everyone! Your skills are about to be put to the ultimate test! We hereby announce the Storm Trials Mode is now available! From this very moment you can prove your courage in subsequent arena-levels with the possibility of character and weapon progression. Defeat groups of enemies in terrifying skirmishes, choose your rewards, and enrich your character with new weapon skills and traits!

* The Storm Trials Mode is still in the beta stage - it will evolve and receive new exciting content over the coming months.

Warhammer VR Bundle!

Be sure to check out the new VR bundle as well. Now you can enjoy not one, but two epic adventures in the Warhammer universe at a great price! Get your Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall & Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister bundle - now 43% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/25778/Warhammer_VR_Bundle/

Happy Warhammer Skulls festival, everyone!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1337100/Warhammer_Age_of_Sigmar_Tempestfall/

Jun 1, 2022

WATCH THE DEVS PLAY - NEW SKULLS CONTENT

Warhammer: Chaos And Conquest - jmudarra

💀 Attention Lords! 💀

💪 This afternoon, as part of the annual Warhammer festival that is SKULLS you will have the chance to watch us play!

📣 The stream will take place on Wednesday June 1st at 5:50 p.m. UTC. Follow this link to watch: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/skulls . It will be again reproduced during the Skulls event.

During the stream, a new event, ‘Dark Riders Abound!’ will be beginning immediately across all servers. In this event, ancient knights from a distant past thunder across the landscape on their twisted unholy steeds! Black Knights have arrived in a new event which will run throughout this week!
Defeat these Undead Foes to claim a new Skeletal Remnants crafting component which in turn can be used to craft 2 new items, an Obsidian Blade or a Skull Chalice which will be the first 2 items in the Undead Barrow Set.

Additionally a new Vanquish skill will be available, Bane of the Undead, allowing your Champion to gain bonus damage against Undead Foes.

❗ Remember that for the duration of the Skulls festival, the Steam-only Warlords or Khorne DLC - containing the Herald of Khorne, the Skullhunter, and the Bloodthirster - will be available at a 60% discount. #WarhammerSkulls

Jun 1, 2022

Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest - Skulls 2022 Event

Warhammer: Chaos And Conquest - jmudarra

💀 Mighty Conquerors! 💀

Get ready for the annual Warhammer festival that is SKULLS! Once a year only, we join our friends in the Warhammer universe to celebrate all things Skull related, with an action-packed week of events, prizes, and offers! To celebrate it, we’re excited to announce that the next new faction coming to Chaos and Conquest will be the Vampire Counts.

With the deluded followers of Chaos' attention being firmly distracted by the thin-blooded elves across the sea, an ancient evil stirs in Sylvania. The dark Nobility of that benighted province of the Empire has arisen again and sent word to their vassal necromancers. Raise their swiftest minions and dispatch them across the Empire. Scout their enemies and prepare the way for the return of the Vampire Counts to the courts of the Empire!

A new event, ‘Dark Riders Abound!’ will be beginning immediately across all servers. In this event, ancient knights from a distant past thunder across the landscape on their twisted unholy steeds! Black Knights have arrived in a new event which will run throughout this week!

Defeat these Undead Foes to claim a new Skeletal Remnants crafting component which in turn can be used to craft 2 new items, an Obsidian Blade or a Skull Chalice which will be the first 2 items in the Undead Barrow Set.

Additionally a new Vanquish skill will be available, Bane of the Undead, allowing your Champion to gain bonus damage against Undead Foes.

For the duration of the Skulls festival and ONLY here on Steam, the Warlords or Khorne DLC - containing the Herald of Khorne, the Skullhunter, and the Bloodthirster - will be available at a 60% discount.

#warhammerskulls

Jun 1, 2022

Good To Know #11 – Making Of New Key Art

Good Company - rokzon

Hey Founders, Builders, Businesspeople!

With the release of Good Company 1.0 only a few weeks away, we want to give you some insights on the creation of the new Key Art.

Good Company has changed and improved quite a bit over the course of Early Access, with some adjustments being nuances, some others rather profound. In the end, creating a new cover piece to capture the wholesome experience of playing Good Company 1.0 seemed more than appropriate.

As a foundation for the process, Katha scribbled a few ideas in alignment with our visual requirements. The motive is not only supposed to convey the various aspects of Good Company's gameplay, it also needs to be transformable into many different formats, on digital stores, and on social media.

Being in constant touch with our publisher, The Irregular Corporation, was of great help. While they sure know Good Company in and out, they were still able to provide a fresh angle and threw in ideas for improvement. Finally, Katha started laying out the scene, adjusting the camera, and adding background elements.

The next step was the first rough layout in Photoshop, where the main elements – background, foreground, and Good Company logo – got balanced against each other. This gave the team a solid impression of the general look and feel of the new key art.

While the detailed background represented many elements found in Good Company very well; employees, workplaces, and logistics - we felt something was still missing. Then Katha came up with the idea of implementing a blueprint-styled area into the piece. It outlines (pun intended) the careful planning and expanding of your business in Good Company and it turned out, the blueish area even contributed to emphasizing the game's logo. We happily went with that!

From that point on, it was a constant refinement. With occasional feedback from the team and our publisher, Katha optimized the composition, improved the coloring, and added tons of lovely details. It was such a delight seeing Good Company's new key art evolving over the past few weeks – and with our release date announced, it's shining on the various platforms Good Company is available and discussed on.

In the meantime, we have various quality assurance processes going on. For one, our 3D Artist, Daniel, is making great efforts in improving Good Company's performance. By dissecting specific rendering tasks, he was able to identify bottlenecks and, more importantly, means for optimization. Good Company will be running notably better on many PCs!

Other than our internal work, we have external QA teams doing final checks on features and localization. Even after our community spotting lots of things, there are still a few hiccups to refine. This also goes for all texts in Good Company, especially for some languages that tend to take up more space in the user interface than others.

You see, there's still a lot going on behind the scenes at Chasing Carrots, and not to forget the awesome support from The Irregular Corporation. But it goes without saying, we want to keep on giving Good Company the best care possible, so that you all have a great time playing the 1.0 version on June 21st!

Last but not least: Keep up your support, wishlist Good Company or look forward to playing the demo, or just spread the word. Or all of the above :)

Talk to you soon, all the best!

Your Chasing Carrots

Jun 1, 2022

COMBAT

Siege of Irdor - Vision Edge Entertainment

We are entering the advanced production stage. We have a lot to show from Siege of Irdor. Starting today, every 3 weeks we will drop a new devlog about mechanics, story, gameplay, and this little precious thing that makes this game unique. Just keep in mind materials presented here come from early stage of production and can differ in the final game.

COMBAT SYSTEM

As you have probably seen, Siege of Irdor is a Real-Time Strategy/City Builder/Tower Defence mix. You have to defend your kingdom - Irdord, but you can fight outside the walls if you think your army is strong enough.

Your units as enemies use 3 sorts of weapons.

Melee weapons. Swords, pikes, axes... fists, and more

Every strategy fan must know the pleasure of using archers. We don't want to disappoint ranged weapons fans. You will be able to "shoot" a lot here.

If you are looking for a "big boom" effect siege weaponry should be your first choice... and magic (but that we will cover a bit later).

Siege of Irdor is a game where it's easy to start (casual and relaxing gameplay) and hard to master (good management and tactics). This strategy will contain a lot of "good strategy must-haves"

Like FORMATIONS, but that will be covered in the next devlog. Stay tuned for more extra content.

The best place to talk about the game will be on the discord channel of our friends from Gaming Factory:

We look forward to your comments and feedback

HardCodeWay team

Jun 1, 2022

Warhammer Skulls Festival - FREE Skins & Universal Cards - Price discounts!

Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition - Steel Sky Productions

The festival of Warhammer gaming returns once again! This awesome event includes a wide selection of discounted Warhammer video games and awesome, exclusive Skulls content. You can check out the entire sale here:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/skulls/

Warhammer Underworlds: Online Content:

24 new Universal Cards added to the game, including Irresistible Prize, Well of Power, Spirit Sacrifice, Inspired Attack and more!
17 exclusive Skulls 2022 Skins for Steelheart's Champions, Chosen Axes, Storm of Celestus, Eyes of the Nine and more!
Price discounts across most of the game's DLC, including a whopping 90% OFF the the base game!

NEW UNIVERSAL CARDS

We're dropping Universal Card Release 08 during Skulls 2022 and what a release it is! 7 new Objective Cards, 11 new Gambits, and 6 new Upgrades to help build the ultimate deck for online battle.

Full Universal Card Release 08 line-up:

Objectives: Brute Force, Didn’t Even Want it, Martyred, Scorched Earth, Tactical Supremacy 1-4, Versatile Fighter, Warning Shot

Gambits: Abasoth’s Withering, Arrow Snare, Emboldened, Galvanised, Inspired Attack, Irresistible Prize, Lethal Ward, Shadowed Step, Sphere of Chamon, Sphere of Ulgu, Spirit Sacrifice

Upgrades: Archer’s Focus, Blessing of Hydragos, Mirror of Spite, Nullstone Darts, Seeking Blade, Well of Power

NEW WARBAND SKINS

As part of the Skulls 2022 Festival, we've created 17 exclusive skins that can only be redeemed during the event! To claim these cosmetic items in-game, enter the code skulls2022promo in the Redeem Code box at the main menu of the game.

The full list of skins are:

Steelheart's Champions: Blades of Dawn, Celestial Warbringers, Knights of the Aurora, Stormblood Guard

Spiteclaw’s Spawn: Clan Kreszzik

The Farstriders: Celestial Warbringers, Blades of Dawn

Thorns of the Briar Queen: Desicrated Blood

Eyes of the Nine: The Unhallowed

The Chosen Axes: Blackfyrd Lodge

Stormsire’s Cursebreakers: The Astral Templars, Blades of Dawn, Celestial Warbringers, Knights of the Aurora

Storm of Celestus: Blades of Dawn, Celestial Warbringers, Knights of the Aurora

SKULLS DISCOUNTS