Beta-Build …1720 released…

December 16,2009 3:58 pm

Our latest beta build, which released today to those who bought it has a bunch of new things in it, including:

Secondary Abilities…which means each piece has another fire/ability unique to it. For example, one of the pieces that has previously been pretty weak is now VERY vital on the strategy board. The BANSHEE’s secondary ability is to suck 1 health point per turn from every opponent directly around her on the Strategy Board. Conversely, the VALKYRIE’s ability is to HEAL everyone around her on the Strategy Board…so she’s like a moving Power Square and very important now in the overall strategy of the game. These are the only two that have this ability on the Strategy board…everyone else has something that affects their fighting in the Combat Arena.

For example, the Wizard clones himself (there is a possibility of an 8 vs. 8 Combat, but it gets REALLY crazy!) The Sorceress calls down lightning bolts that fry everyone in it’s path. The Basilisk calls forth little snakes to aid it and the Knight has a reflective shield that works on all projectiles, sending them back to their originator. All abilities are very unique to the piece and pretty balanced. We are really excited to hear what everyone thinks about this new mode, which can be turned on and off. Also, there is a switch to turn on and off FRIENDLY FIRE.

Play it. It’s well worth the $15 bucks. We’ve been playing for over 6 months (at least 1 game a day) and still don’t get sick of it. :)

 

very nice idea, will it also come to the iphone version?

Comment by zheshiwo December 16, 2009 4:21 pm

Any luck getting it to work on MacOS running windows in Parallels?

Comment by Michael December 17, 2009 10:04 pm

So in keeping with the original Archon spirit, being released on multiple platforms like Commodore, Amiga, etc, will you release the game for Linux specifically for Ubuntu?

Comment by ArchonUbuntu January 6, 2010 9:23 pm

If there’s enough people that want it, we’d love to do an Ubuntu version…you could start a petition on our forums.

Comment by admin January 12, 2010 10:29 am

I just used PayPal to do the pre-order, and get the “instant download” of the Beta release, HOWEVER, there were no pop-ups, links, or any information, whatsoever, as to where and how to download the game! Please help? I’m very excited to be able to play this on the computer, once again (after not playing it since 1990, when my C64 died!). Thanks!

Comment by Bret January 31, 2010 11:45 pm

Still hoping to find out about beta on OsX (I paid already…).

Note that I tried registering on your forums, but the image code needed to validate registration is not showing up (used chrome browser on OS X).

Comment by Michael February 23, 2010 1:20 am

 
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