Weekly Progress Update: February 7th, 2014

Think I should hide secret notes here?
A first look at the NPC planes

It’s Friday and time for you to hear about our day. Don’t worry no boring stories about who we bumped into at the supermarket. This is all action, all the time. Standard format, we’ll go through a bunch of team members and you can hear what they’ve been working on. If you want to ask us anything about what they have been working on feel free to join us today at 3 pm est on twitch.tv/gunsoficarus where we will be answering questions live.

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Matchmaking Testing!

Dev App

With a simple click of the poster and sign up you’ll have everything you need to be the first to see Matchmaking.

After a few months of gathering feedback, thinking, planning, designing, building, and tinkering we are getting ready for everyone to help us test the new matchmaking system. The system is designed to address a number of issues that you have raised such as imbalanced lobbies, longer lobby wait times, uneven crews, and loadout arms race. By joining our testing efforts you will receive access to the Dev App, the playground for all new features and contents before they see the light of day. The early access, like a diamond, is forever.

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Weekly Progress Update: January 31st, 2014

Arshi Corvette
A sneak peek into the internal workings.

Hey everyone,

Sorry for the delay. We just got the featured sale in the Humble Store on Friday and we felt it was more important to push for the charity announcement out and then do the blog post a couple of days late.

Same style as before, we’re going to go through each team’s weekly activities and you can then play mental favorites with members of the team with what they’re working on.

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Live on Humble Store, 75% Off! 30% Goes to Charity

Humble Store

Greetings everyone!

We’re excited and proud to announce that Guns of Icarus Online is live on the Humble Store! Not only is the Humble Store giving us an awesome banner feature on their front page with a 75% launch discount, they have also allowed us to increase the percentage of proceeds to charity to 30%! That’s right, 30% of all sales of the game will go to the great charities that Humble Bundle selected. Continue reading “Live on Humble Store, 75% Off! 30% Goes to Charity”

Player Feature Series – Lord Dick Tim

Community Ambassador, Lore Master, Skywhale Enthusiast

As  the community grew over the past year, we’ve gotten to know some amazing people in our community.  Beyond their lumberjack skills or teaching ability, they’re living lives of adventure!  We’re starting a new blog series to regularly feature our conversations with them, and here’s the first one – featuring Lord Dick Tim. Continue reading “Player Feature Series – Lord Dick Tim”

The Second Season

Named after our favorite dilapidated ship, the Leviathan Seasonal makes it’s debut.

It’s a bigger and more vicious free-for-all for the entire Guns of Icarus Community. The second season of the competitive scene comes with a cleaner set of rules, a weekly open event that aims to work with any team’s time, and a massive end of the season tournament.

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