After the newly improved timeline, the next piece to add to the website is a big one: Calima Saga now has its own wiki, in English, Spanish and Catalan. A place to delve into the history of the planet and its inhabitants, and to find everything about the books and games of the saga.
A small, personal one today. I took the chance to print some physical copies of the English version of Descent, for some friends and colleagues. And here it is, the first time I've held the book in my hands:
Some of you might remember the old timeline of Calima from the previous website. It was one of the things left behind when the site was renewed, and now it is back, rebuilt from scratch: the known history of Calima, in English, Spanish and Catalan.
Happy new year! Let's start it with one of the biggest pieces of Age of Frontiers: combat. In the base game there will be three types of combat:
With the new website up and running, it was time to give some love to the book where everything starts. A new release of Descent is out, in English, Spanish and Catalan!
Good news this time! Remember the bad news about the website going down every now and then? I finally had the chance to spend some time at home, and I took it to renew the whole infrastructure behind Calima Saga, from top to bottom.
After several posts about trading screens, weather fronts and modding tools, it's a good moment to take a step back and explain what Age of Frontiers will be as a whole. Because it is really two things: a game, and an engine to make games like it.
Remember when I said, in the first look at Age of Frontiers, that its interface was extremely moddable? That was only the beginning. Age of Frontiers is being built to be fully moddable: the world, its goods, units, factions, sites and almost every rule live in data files, not in the code. And to make adding new assets and maps easier, the game comes with its own tools.
Systems are the heart of a game like Age of Frontiers, but a world full of systems can still feel like a spreadsheet with a map on top. So lately I've been taking some time for the other half: making the world feel alive, and good-looking.
A new year, and more Age of Frontiers! Three of its core systems have been taking shape over the last months: trading with villages, building them up, and growing your own character. Here is a first look at each of them.