Well that was fast :P
I spent all day working on balance tweaks and later on the missing sfx, and now Beta 9.3 is pretty close to its normal prerelease state. There will definitely be some mo...
2019-12-12 12:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostCertainly later than I'd want it, but it's finally ready. Sorta :P
This is definitely an X1 rather than a "this is pretty much what's going public" prerelease like I did for 9.1 and 9.2.
<... 2019-12-11 14:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostWell we still don't have the new leaderboards, but I've done some writing on the old ones for posterity, and who knows, maybe it'll help someone looking to do something similar? It was certainly a ...
2019-12-10 01:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Well I was hoping to have the new game mode out for you all to check out by this weekend, but it turns out that was a bit overambitious of me since--who would've known*--it's the beginning of Decem...
2019-12-05 13:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostNews
There's going to be a new special mode/holiday event for the end of the year! It's been mostly planned out, and this is actually what I'll be working on next, to be rele...
2019-11-26 05:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This was one of the incomplete drafts for Cogmind's alpha trailer, done back in 2015. A number of trailer versions were created, and mini-tests run, this being one of the more complete ones.
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2019-11-18 06:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostWell then, looks like we did actually hit the Overwhelmingly Positive threshold on Steam, pretty awesome :D
That means the Merchants Guild will be a thing! Wow, I wasn't sure that would actua...
2019-11-18 01:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostBeta 9.2 should release next Tuesday, and seems to be working nicely, but let's play with it for a few days just to be sure :P
It's pretty meaty for a minor release, with at least a little so...
2019-11-07 13:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostLast year Steam updated its friends list and chat client to support more features, and among them is support for "Rich Presence," or basically giving games running under Steam the optio...
2019-11-05 11:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So last week for the special Halloween version I had a "branding image" / "cover image" / "logo" / whateveryouwanttocallit, something I've been doing for Beta releases for a while now to essentiall...
2019-11-04 14:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnd I thought I was probably done with renderFilters...
Saw a Tweet today from a dev who was fooling around with negative color in their game, and realized we didn't have that option in Cogmi...
2019-11-01 07:24:53 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a new Beta 9.1 prerelease out, the same branch on Steam (so it can autoupdate--saves are compatible), and same DRM-free link. This should be the final version, which also includes some new ...
2019-10-26 05:06:23 +0000 UTC View PostBeta 9.1 is coming next Tuesday, just a week after the Beta 9 release, as planned.
It's mainly about making the Halloween "Abominations" mode public, but also includes some fixes, including f...
2019-10-24 05:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostWhew, the data server is up and running, and the deadline for releasing Beta 9 fast approaches, so we're going to do it without leaderboards since at least we'll be properly collecting the data for...
2019-10-16 02:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post
No wonder I've been feeling productive, got to spend most of last week actually CODING! Was recording my hours and noticed it was one of those good streaks :)
The first couple days this week ...
2019-10-15 14:04:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe final iteration of the server backend still isn't ready (Will's occasionally working on it...), but the good news is that it's pretty close to a state where it'll at least be usable for accepti...
2019-10-13 23:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm still waiting on the completed server backend so we can actually test the final score uploading features, so in the meantime decided there was time to implement some extra content for another t...
2019-10-09 23:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostBecause some of you haven't redeemed your rewards yet, here's a quick reminder that you can check out this post for de...
2019-09-30 23:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long time I've toyed with the idea of having a bot that plays Cogmind, just for fun, and especially in recent months I've thought of the idea more and more often, even coming close to startin...
2019-09-27 04:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostI've added an important new Wizard Mode feature for Beta 9 but will hold off on updating the Wizard Mode H...
2019-09-18 06:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnother prerelease! I'd like to say this'll be the last one before Beta 9 finally goes out, but it's still missing the leaderboards which we definitely need to test before release, so I guess there...
2019-09-18 06:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the draft for a new blog post coming soon...
A couple years back I introduced difficulty settings to Cogmind. At the time 2019-09-14 01:57:41 +0000 UTC View Post
For me, permadeath is a huge part of the roguelike experience. When you make enough mistakes that you lose--that's it, it's over. No immediately starting from a safe checkpoint not long before in o...
2019-09-10 00:49:01 +0000 UTC View PostWell sheesh, the changelog for Beta 9 is already longer than any before it, and it's still not out xD
As I've mentioned in some places, this is because I don't really want Cogmind to be witho...
2019-09-06 05:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the earlier post declaring Siege Treads the vote winner that'll be going into the next release, I'v...
2019-09-03 00:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe fourth and final article in the Ultimate Morgue File series is up, in which I write about why and how to include accessible character dumps in Cogmind, including automated build classification ...
2019-08-27 01:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe patrons have spoken , Siege treads are coming to Cogmind Beta 9! I like this one, good choice :)
They'll be...
2019-08-26 01:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe recent voting will be closed soon, so anyone interested in participating who hasn't done so yet is encouraged to g...
2019-08-24 02:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostTime to vote for a new Cogmind item/mechanic! This patron goal was reached earlier in the Beta 9 dev cycle, as described h...
2019-08-15 07:10:15 +0000 UTC View PostIf you recall, back in March I put out a call for concepts since we reached this particular milestone goal. That...
2019-08-14 04:49:13 +0000 UTC View Post