This is a special year end review on the current state of Archmage Rises for fans, stakeholders, and indie game devs. We review work effort, financials, fan survey, and then the next steps on how to finish the game through to release. I hope you enjoy the transparency. I’m happy to clarify anything or answer questions.

Well this is it! Build 11 is going live to Steam. I delayed until the last possible moment in 2018 to do so.

Build 11.2 is out. Now with 90% less bugs!

Thomas is home, clean shaven, and releasing fixes to Build 11!

Finally, after 18 months of rewriting, fixing, and waiting, Build 11 is ready to for play. Mostly.

Build 11 went out to a small group of testers and the results are in. This week I focused on the major bugs and missing features from their feedback.

Build 11 is real, it’s happening, and it is in preview testing with 8 players right now.

I said I would do updates every other week, so with nothing much to say or show here is the shortest one of all.

Well I’m finally confident enough in what I have here to put a stake in the ground and say for sure that Build 11 will release on or before Nov 16 2018. In this video I explain why.

This week our update is a little different.  I peel back the layers and show some of Archmage Rises secret sauce for creating and utilizing a very detailed world to create quests.  I have been struggling with procedurally generated quests displaying in a compelling way to the player.  This week shows some of the challenges, why it is taking so long, and what the benefits are of the systems are.