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General Changes Buildings can now have a demolish award. Demolishing a Triplex will now award 200 Nanites. This gives you a method to convert 225 energy into 150 nanites on demand. Added display area for subscribed map pack author name and icon in the play menu. Added "Capture Mo
Do you have what it takes to make an awesome Byte Lynx map? If so, then enter your map to our Byte Lynx Map Builder Competition for a chance to win prizes and prestige! The competition runs from September 1st to September 30th, with winners announced on October 14th. Not looking
New Content: Custom Maps Jail Break : Break free from prison by corrupting other prisoners to your will and avoiding or deactivating security. Byte Command : A Missile Command style arcade map where you defend with your base with rays from approaching enemies. Gari’s Game : Play
This time around we have a larger patch than usual. While working on the map editor we made a bunch of quality-of-life improvements we wanted to share with you while you wait for the big update in a couple months. Major Gameplay Changes Surgers now have a “shift” line mode that e
Sorry for the long silence! We've been hard at work adding way more features to the map editor than originally intended. We don't want to confirm any features until they're in and working up to our standards, but there's a lot of cool stuff in there that we think you'll have a gr
We've been hard at work making a map editor and we wanted to share our progress. So far we have expanded in-game building placement to support map-building items like Relays and resource patches. We've also made progress on UI for editing additional data structures like upgrades,
v1.0.7 Bug Fixes Fixed issues on mission Lost Cause and Invasion when some Excessive difficulty modifiers were enabled. Fixed Issue on mission Invasion whereby hard difficulty wasn’t enabling properly. Community Requested Added the fastest time for each completed level and a sum
Santa Lynx Update (v1.0.6) General Changes Added Steam community avatars. Level design tweaks to ‘Wanted’ and ‘Invasion’ missions to incorporate pits into the gameplay. Added visual indicators on platform block connectivity. Added seasonal Christmas Decorations (Shown till Jan 3r
Byte Lynx v1.0.5 General Changes Added Excessive Difficulty Modifiers to Profile Menu. (100% on Expert to unlock) Added modifiers: Turn off firewall Overclocking Shields Only Windows XP Fair and Balanced Added in-game time display. Added profile stat for total time playing on tha
Byte Lynx Patch v1.0.4 General Created a Gameplay Overview video to explain the basics of Byte Lynx! Added transition from Campaign/Profiles to the Play Menu so it’s easier to select than play a specific campaign slot. Improved stability of Steam-related features. Developers acqu
Byte Lynx is officially released! What's next for Artful Games? EDIT (10/21/2022): After listening to community requests and conducting a poll we are making a level editor instead of a free 3-5 mission mini-campaign. The editor will come with a few ready-to-play example levels, j
Every day from October 11th to the 14th we're doing a live stream from 4:30 pm-6:30 pm PST on Twitch. Come by to see live playthroughs by one of the developers. We'll be doing audience Q and A, showing off interesting play-styles, and raffling off keys to the views. Come check us
We're going to be at SIX online on September 24th! Come and chat with us live on Twitch as we show off the game and provide live commentary on the game, our design process, and our development history.
Byte Lynx got accepted into the Seattle Indies Expo (SIX)! We'll both be there showing off a beta build of the game. Anyone is welcome to come by and talk to us or try out the game. We'd love to see you there! Attendance is free (even if you're not going to PAX) and it's a short