A game inspired by Magic Carpet, with modern graphics and features, to name some: simulated water and lava, swarms of creatures, generated worlds. You play as a sorcerer, exploring mysterious worlds, changing them, discovering ancient secrets, creating new spells, fighting creatures and other mages, building and destroying as you please.

Post news Report RSS [Update] Arcane Worlds 0.25 and 0.26

0.25 and 0.26 versions of Arcane Worlds, adding a lot of new features and several bug fixes.

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Two updates in one row, 0.25 is about "mana tactics", 0.26 is about graphical update. See the details below ! :)

Change log: 0.26

  • New shadows.
  • New anti-aliasing method (TAA).
  • Tree foliage now uses a much less detailed model in the distance, for performance.
  • Tried to improve water simulation performance on some CPUs.
  • Added rim lighting and adjusted land textures.
  • Disabled stylistic post-processing effect by default, you can toggle it with F5.
  • Various rendering optimizations.
  • Sound volume instead of master volume in settings.

Change log: 0.25

  • Mana is now "wild" by default and should be claimed with the new Claim Mana spell.
  • Gatherers only pick up mana owned by the player now, ignoring the wild mana.
  • Player's maximum mana depends on the mana stored in the castle now.
  • Player's mana regeneration rate now depends on the mana owned (claimed) by the player.
  • Made gatherers pick up mana much more efficiently.
  • Gatherers can be damaged and killed now, both by enemies and the player.
  • Rebalanced spell mana costs and some other parameters.
  • Extra mana (above castle's capacity) is now expelled from the castle.
  • Added normal (non-dark) birds.
  • Added gatherer summon and death effects and sounds.
  • Added gatherers' info to HUD.
  • Mana, gatherers and player's missiles are now visible on the map.
  • Added dotted line to the castle on the map.
  • Spell icon turns semi-transparent now when the spell can't be cast.
  • Made Fracture spell stronger and improved its effect aesthetically.
  • Updated the tutorial to teach about claiming mana.
  • Fixed items appearing inside menhirs sometimes.
  • Added additional screen message with smaller text, mostly for the tutorial.
  • Added world gameplay time to script, also displayed on the performance stats screen.
  • Changed the way C++ and Squirrel objects are linked internally.

Arcane Worlds 0.26 :: Demo


MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENT

Required :
200Mo free hard disk space
Dual-Core CPU @ 2.00 GHz
ATI Radeon HD 6xxx series OR Nvidia GTX 5xx/6xx series
4Go of RAM

Best :
1Go hard disk free space (futures updates)
Dual-Core CPU @ 3.00 GHz
ATI Radeon HD 7xxx series/R9 2xx series OR Nvidia GTX 6xx/7xx series
4Go of RAM

This game is not very CPU-intensive, but need some graphic card power. Integrated GPUs like Intel ones may not work. A-series APU from AMD should work.
If you encounter a problem while launching or playing the game, please report the error. Please update your graphic card driver before posting : AMD or NVIDIA

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Judicat0r
Judicat0r - - 507 comments

Good to see this going on.

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Judicat0r
Judicat0r - - 507 comments

Is this still going on?

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