"A Nation of Wind" Developer's Blog

"A Nation of Wind" is an independently developed PC Game featuring Arena Shooter and Real Time Strategy elements.

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Get it here for free!: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stimulatingsoftware.mppcandycauldron&hl=en

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Check out my latest game on android guys! (iPhone coming soon!!)

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Still developing, just been busy :)

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Gonna be posting more of this at the main tumblr from now on!

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Are you still alive? :o

I am! I also am working on a new project that you might catch glimpses of on 4chan's AGDG threads every once in a while. I'll update here about it too once I'm further along in it.

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Is there an email address I can reach you at?

[email protected]

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could i do a lets play of it?

Most Certainly!

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Why would you make a sequel when you haven't finished the first game? To my mind, finishing the first game should come... Well, first.

A Nation of Wind is finished, originally I had planned to add some more content, but none of the things I'd like to add at this point are small, they're all major updates to the game that, quite simply, I don't have time for. So the current version of ANoW is the final one. I've talked about some of the things I'd like to add to ANoW in a sequel in other posts on this blog, but I currently spend too much time making a living doing freelance and part time work at a game studio to add any meaningful update to ANoW.

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I was wondering how do you hatch the dragon egg? Me and my bf can't quite figure it out

Make sure you are in build mode, then click on the Egg, you use Food to feed it. It takes somewhere between 100-500 food to hatch. You can also tow eggs and turrets by holding down spacebar when near them!

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Is this game still being work on?

At this point no, ANoW is finished. Ultimately my goal is to make a more fleshed out sequel, but at this time I don't know when I'll have the resources to do so.

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Great game! Will you add a time pause/play/fast/faster ability? That would be really helpful especially when my buildings get demolished and resources production slows down. Thanks!

Nope, there's a lot of reasons for not adding that stuff, suffice it to say that if you are finding lots of downtime in the game, you just need to keep in mind that there are plenty of other things you could be doing that aren't related to building and waiting on units.

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Is there a volume control?

No, there is not, just an option to turn BGM on or off.

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Nifty Niche Contest Winner Gamejam! by Jameson Wilkins

Watch Jameson Wilkins’s Nifty Niche Contest Winner Gamejam! on Livestream.com.

ITS LIVE FOLKS! Get on in here and listen to my awkward voice say goofy things while I make a game about a Goblin with management issues! Stream should be going on most of today, July 28th 2013, so don’t hesitate to stop by, and please reblog as well!

And hey, who knows, I might be asking for suggestions from the audience!

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SO HERE’S THE DEAL.

I’d like some more more followers, cuz I got a lot of stuff coming on down the line, but I get that I don’t just deserve your attention, I need to give you back something in return (that isn’t awesome free games like A Nation of Wind). So that’s what this contest is all about.

LETS TALK ABOUT PRIZES.

First place is…you guessed it, a simple arcade game starring YOU. Or someone of your choosing (significant other, family member, avatar, OC, etc.) I’m not entirely %100 certain what the game will be beyond an arcade title, but I’m hoping you (the winner) can help me out with that!

Second and third place each get a pixel portrait! This is something I’ve done in the past for charity work, you can see some examples in the images above. Basic idea is you (or person of your choosing) mashed together with a video game character type of your choice. Like a caricature, but with pixel art!

“But Nifty Niche!”, you say “How can I partake in this amazing contest?”

I’m glad you asked! There are only 2 requirements. The first is that you need to reblog the very post you are reading right now! Then start following the Nifty Niche Blog! It’s that simple!

The deadline for this contest is July 13th! I’ll be reminding you folks as we near it, but enter early so you don’t forget! Remember, just reblog this post and follow the Nifty Niche tumblr and you could star in your very own video game!

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For those of you that still haven't started following my Game Dev blog, here's some added incentive!

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Anddddd another shirt, this one designed by mister Jameson Wilkins, who’ll be doing half the art for the line

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Here we are! I’m really happy with how this illustration came out, can’t wait to be wearing it! We’ll let you all know when that happens ASAP!

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Have another preview of the upcoming piece I’m working on!

Also, the edutainment game is DONE. Unfortunately none of you can play it because I have to wait for the client to take of how theyre going to freely distribute it, but soon as I have a link I’ll get you guys it!

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One last gifset for today! These aren’t from Candy Cauldron, but from the new shooter/puzzle game I’ve been working on in my free time. 

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Another quick reminder folks, I’m reblogging this from the Nifty Niche devblog, which is where all my future devblogging will go (including any new information about A Nation of Wind.)

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Four more Candy Cauldron gifs! This time we have three enemies and a potion, with legs!

The idea was that potions would pop out of Candice’s cauldron and run over to her pet slime, then splash themselves on it, I really liked the idea of the potions being characters themselves, reminded me a lot of the brooms in the Sorcerers Apprentice (The Mickey short, not the Nic Cage flick.)

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Another quick reminder folks, I’m reblogging this from the Nifty Niche devblog, which is where all my future devblogging will go (including any new information about A Nation of Wind.)

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It’s been awhile eh? Even though Candy Cauldron has been scrapped, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love the art I did for it. Candice was a lot of fun to animate!

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Another quick reminder folks, I'm reblogging this from the Nifty Niche devblog, which is where all my future devblogging will go (including any new information about A Nation of Wind.)