Force of Elements
Rebuilding with AIR SDK v33.
NEW RELEASE! Meet Padrya + F2P upon Valve approval!
Thank you for your patience. I'm sure many of you were wondering if Devcon and I had been eaten by giant snog beasts, but NO...what is a giant snog beast? Well, that is a tale for another time.
What's more important is that we are proud to release our newest hero, Padrya!
You can feast your eyes on her here:
http://imgur.com/Nz941HD
Fun facts about Padrya:
1) She's voiced by Tim Schafer's sister, the fabulous, lovely and artistic Ginny Wescott!
http://www.westcottdesign.com/index.html
2) She's our very first control based hero, with lots of interesting ways to confuse and deny opponents. She likely will need tuning so please give us lots of feedback!
3) As a joke, the artists started calling her skins by various salad names aaaaaaaaaaaand it kind of stuck, so you can earn her "Caesar" skin with shards.
Here are some other updates in this release:
- Pending approval from Valve we will be FTP - As a thanks, we have reserved the Lunar Guardian Ki skin for anyone who purchased the game premium. This skin will no longer be in circulation on steam once we go Free to Play and will be reserved for our early access premium folks only.
- Two New Auras - Beserker & Earth's Blessing.
- New spell icons when mana globes fill.
- New Premium skins.
- DLC - please help support the team to keep making new content!
- Screen size and resolution issues have been fixed.
Issues in progress:
<*>Blackscreen after purchases - if you experience a black screen, just go back and please send details to devcon@wickedfun.com.
<*>Freeze on victory screen - Occassionally when a player leaves quickly post victory, the game may freeze. This is our focus for this upcoming week.
<*>ghost text in black background when game is in Window mode.
NEW RELEASE! Meet Padrya + F2P upon Valve approval!
Thank you for your patience. I'm sure many of you were wondering if Devcon and I had been eaten by giant snog beasts, but NO...what is a giant snog beast? Well, that is a tale for another time.
What's more important is that we are proud to release our newest hero, Padrya!
You can feast your eyes on her here:
http://imgur.com/Nz941HD
Fun facts about Padrya:
1) She's voiced by Tim Schafer's sister, the fabulous, lovely and artistic Ginny Wescott!
http://www.westcottdesign.com/index.html
2) She's our very first control based hero, with lots of interesting ways to confuse and deny opponents. She likely will need tuning so please give us lots of feedback!
3) As a joke, the artists started calling her skins by various salad names aaaaaaaaaaaand it kind of stuck, so you can earn her "Caesar" skin with shards.
Here are some other updates in this release:
- Pending approval from Valve we will be FTP - As a thanks, we have reserved the Lunar Guardian Ki skin for anyone who purchased the game premium. This skin will no longer be in circulation on steam once we go Free to Play and will be reserved for our early access premium folks only.
- Two New Auras - Beserker & Earth's Blessing.
- New spell icons when mana globes fill.
- New Premium skins.
- DLC - please help support the team to keep making new content!
- Screen size and resolution issues have been fixed.
Issues in progress:
New Update: Improved Profile Icons, New Screen Resolutions and Stability!
Thank you for being patient with us! We have been focusing on getting the game as stable as possible and although we can't completely kill disconnects from happening (dat internet) they are handled in a much better way now.
Updates:
- New Profile Icons: Any achievement icon can now be selected as a player's profile icon. Click on your profile image in "Profile" to change it.
- Disconnects/Freezes minimized: Players should experience less disconnects and freezes during gameplay. New messages to let players know when disconnects do occur and when the game re-connects.
- Screen Resolution Options and Window Resize.
What's Next:
- New Content: New Hero.
- Free to Play as next step to merge mobile/steam accounts.
- New Hero/Skin Bundle Packs.
- Exclusive Early Access rewards for all players who have purchased or will purchase the game before our free to play update.
3-6 Update - FREEZE/LOAD issues [hotfix on 3/7 fixed it!]
We are working hard to resolve these mysterious freeze/crash issues going on in the system.
As a result, the patch we put out today has a higher incidence so we can track down and isolate the cause. We will be issuing a hotfix tomorrow to resolve these issues, so we ask for your patience.
Updates:
**Please enjoy the new "Water" battle area we completed, The Oasis! This will be in the random arena rotation.
**You will notice a circle loading graphic if the game continues to load after the loading bar is filled so it won't look like a crash.
Updates for next week:
Jovial Tarkin Premium Skin
Crash/Freeze Fixes
Tutorial in between Screen
Thanks again for your support!
-Wicked Fox
Tutorial Hotfixes
Play through it and let us know if you run into any issues, or find anything that seems off.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Thanks all!
New Build Out 2/24/2016!
1) Stability Fixes - Found and bug killed code that was causing some of our disconnects thanks to all the great community feedback!
2) Economy Changes - We have adusted pricing on heroes, to make them more valuable. Don't worry! Purchases already made with shards shouldn't be retroactively effected.
3) New Extended Tutorial! We have the voice talent of Chuck Kourouklis, Just press the "how to play" button on the play menu to start it. It's still a work in progress, but it will teach the advanced concepts of the game. Also, a sneak peak of our "clockwork Vaskos" skin that will be available for players soon.
4) Fire Arena Background - New cool background that appears randomly with a heavy guitar solo...we wanted to give a nod to old school pvp games like Quake.
5) Spark Update - Spark's Q effect to take away time from opponents have been halved (3 to 1.5 and 1 turn instead of 2)
We hope you enjoy and thanks for supporting us!
Trading Cards, Emotes and a Badge are Live!
Our trading cards have been approved! Play to collect 7 cards featuring our hero mastery splash art.
Game on!
Spark Backstory
The goblins got to work quickly on their new home. They used Celerun for its hydraulic power and established mines along the side of the The Praeceps. It wasn’t long at all before the Gobelinus began to take shape as the group eked out a new home for themselves in Acharos. They had lived for 50 years without any contact with a single human. Everyone considered that route to the North blocked, but the goblins managed to tame the river and could travel up and down it with ease.
When humans first made contact with the goblins, they hoped the goblins would allow them passage up the river to the north, but the goblins declined. They would allow anyone safe passage, but for a price, and a rather exorbitant one at that. Thus began the uneasy tension between the humans and the goblins. There was no open animosity, but neither regarded the other species well. The goblins thought of the humans as miserly, and the humans felt the goblins were greedy, secretive. The two races tend to mistrust and keep their distance from one another.
Spark was among the first generation of goblins to be born in Acharos. Goblins tend to be small, but scrappy individuals who never give up what they want without fighting tooth and nail for it. They have a love for gems, and will do whatever they can think of to get them, be it trickery, bribery, or even deadly force. Spark was a bit different from his peers, though. He was extra small, and never liked to fight. But, Spark has always been an ingenious little goblin, and knew how to get what he wanted without fighting like all the others, through invention and trickery. Spark would devise crafty little weapons to incapacitate anyone who challenged him. In this way, Spark came to know his place in the world.
One day, Spark was surrounded by a gang of other young goblins, and he was no match for them. They took the gems he’d managed to gather and served him a hefty beating for all the times his contraptions had bested them. Spark dragged his broken body home, vowing the whole way that he’d never be overpowered again. He laid himself in bed, but while his body rested, his mind worked feverishly. The morning came, and Spark hadn’t slept. He quickly got to work drawing schematics and in two weeks had a working prototype.
Spark walked out onto the street and he rumbled and roared as he went. He saw the gang of goblins from before, and they saw him and laughed. They approached Spark, who swallowed nervously. But, he was confident in his invention. The little goblin towered above the other boys in a mechanical suit that was powered by a coal engine. The boys jumped on the machine to get at Spark, but he threw them off and beat them all bloody. He took their gems - what he’d had on him and much more. Spark would never be bullied again.
Over the years, Spark has continued to improve upon the rudimentary design he’d created in his youth. He was renowned around the goblins as being fiercely cunning, and powerful as any knight with his mechanical suit. He’s a twitchy little fellow - kinda paranoid, and backstabbing with a huge Napoleon complex - truly the epitome of goblin characters, and he’s respected for his unabashed goblin-ness by his fellows.
Spark leaves Gobelinus in order to amass more wealth and power, as he feels he’s tapped Gobelinus pretty dry, more or less. Argus will offer him great wealth and power, and all he has to do to get it is do what he does best - beat people up!
1/9/2016 9:30pm PST Spark Release Live!
The new Patch is up! Devcon out did himself or almost did himself in...depending on how you look at it. ^_^
We are sure there will be bugs, so please continuing reporting them up!
Items in this release:
-Leaver fix
-New Hero: Spark + WWII Skin + Mastery Skin
- Alternating Arena Backgrounds/Music : Skyreach Temple (Air) + Valley of the Sun Falcon (Earth).
-Freeze Fix : Vaskos
-Profile Backgrounds + Trading Cards + Badges submitted to Steam (waiting for approval)
-Lighting Aura buffed
-Steam Achievements