Developer posts and news about this game.
Eons of War development is going swimmingly: game loops are tightening, graphics are improving, and sounds—well—are sounding better. With this update, we'd like to start covering some of the core game mechanics and systems. The first topic is the in-game economy since it's used i
After a long hiatus, I was pleased to announce a little over a month ago that Eons of War is back and it's being actively developed. We have an actual budget now to help us hit future milestones and contract out music, some graphics, creative writing, and marketing. While parsing
Hello everyone! First of all, I'd like to apologize to the whole community about keeping you in the dark for over a year. Life and other projects got in the way of development but I'm pleased to announce that Eons of War is back on track. We've been making good progress addressin
Apologies for the lack of updates! There’ve been lots different things happening in the past couple of months and I couldn’t dedicate much time to Eons of War. I tested the most recent version with a small group of folks and it seems like the core game loop is still not where it
Exciting news: I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, so private beta 2.0 will be starting on May 6 ! I am pretty excited about it since the game is in incredible shape compared to the first early beta that we ran in December of last year. There are tons of new gam
Build 0.17.0 of Eons of War is out on Steam with minor game mechanic changes and some polish work. Let’s dive right in! Karma Prior to this update, the game didn’t have a negative feedback loop meaning that players with a stronger initial position and economy would likely come ou
Build 0.16.0 of Eons of War is out on Steam! This update introduces a long-overdue change to how action energy costs are calculated. Before this change costs didn’t take the underlying units into account. For example, the cost of a mineral transfer would be the same for one miner
Yesterday marked one year since I started working on Eons of War—at least that’s what my version control history says! It felt like an important milestone to me, so I decided to go over some development highlights in this post. I was at a low point in March 2018. My cat just pass
After two weeks of focused work build 0.15.0 is finally out on Steam! It includes a new game mechanic called factions and several other improvements. This release concludes our work on core game mechanics. It’s time to focus on AI, balance, content, and polish. Factions Factions
Super excited to get build 0.14.0 out on Steam! And it’s a big one too with the new weapons mechanic and several important UI optimizations that should increase FPS on slower machines. Super Weapons Adding weapons to the game has been on my mind for at least three months now and
Build 0.13.0 is out on Steam! I managed to add several important quality-of-life fixes as well as a couple of major gameplay changes to it. Let’s dive right in! Custom Games I reorganized the custom game screen where you can now add and remove AI players and customize their races
Build 0.12.0 is out on Steam! This update has lots of little changes that dramatically improve gaming experience. It also just dawned on me that I’ve been sharing public Eons of War updates for 20 weeks now. I think it’s the longest streak of writing I’ve ever done. Kind of neat
Build 0.11.0 is out on Steam! This update introduces races and several other more minor improvements. Let’s dive right in! Races Races is a brand new game mechanic in the world of Eons of War . Now every occupied location in the game has a race of sapient beings. At the beginning
Protostar about to turn into a yellow dwarf. Build 0.10.0 is out on Steam! This update contains two major changes: the stellar evolution mechanic and the wormhole mechanic. Both add new ways to strategize during all phases of the game but the endgame is particularly affected by t
Build 0.9.0 is out on Steam for beta players to test. It doesn’t contain as many changes as I have planned last week though. The whole stellar lifecycle mechanic is taking longer than expected because I had to completely re-write the part of the game logic that’s responsible for
Updated UI: Tooltips and Construction Panels Build 0.8.0 is out on Steam for beta players to test. It includes lots of overdue improvements that I’ve been wanting to work on since December. It also includes several gameplay changes proposed by beta players. This is a pretty impor
This past week was pretty busy running the beta but I still managed to finish an important gameplay feature: energy shield . Energy shields are protective mechanisms that consume energy every turn once they are activated. When the enemy attacks a location with an energy shield up
Happy New Year! I took a few days off from development enjoying winter in the mountains and still managed to work on a few long overdue improvements. I just pushed build 0.6.0 to Steam that includes the following updates: AI players learned how to upgrade structures around their
Welp, apparently I’m not good at counting calendar days and update #12 from last Tuesday was not the final update of 2018 after all. This one most definitely is! :) It took me longer than I thought to get the new events system to the point where it generated meaningful random eve
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s almost 2019. Last year was great on so many levels and I know that next year will be even better! Happy holidays and enjoy the last few days of this year! I’m going to keep cranking for another week and then take a few days off to recharge an