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Category: NovaMundi

  • NovaMundi – Battlegrounds [0.43]

    NovaMundi – Battlegrounds [0.43]

    NovaMundi is an exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers in the XVI…

  • Continued work in NovaMundi

    Continued work in NovaMundi

    Remember when this blog was more than just a collection of release announcements? I’d like to get back to that, even if it’s not in-deep postmortems or stuff… just sharing a bit of what I’ve been doing lately. I’m again on a wave to try and finish NovaMundi; as much…

  • NovaMundi – Icons of Status [0.42.3]

    NovaMundi – Icons of Status [0.42.3]

    NovaMundi is an exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers in the XVI…

  • Cultural Heritage in Videogames – a dissection of the history of NovaMundi

    I was invited by Universidad Santo Tomás – Seccional Tunja to share the history of NovaMundi, the opportunities and challenges of creating games with a heavy component of cultural heritage. The talk was presented in a “masterclass” format, and touched on the following topics: * Insights into the development process…

  • NovaMundi 0.42.2 – Small fixes

    NovaMundi is available now on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see!

  • NovaMundi – Clash on the Highlands [0.42.1]

    NovaMundi – Clash on the Highlands [0.42.1]

    NovaMundi is a procedural exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors and explorers to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers…

  • NovaMundi – Towns of the Muisca [0.41]

    NovaMundi – Towns of the Muisca [0.41]

    NovaMundi is a procedural exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors and explorers to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations and prepare them to stand against the upcoming invasion efforts from European powers…

  • NovaMundi: Spiritual Experiences [0.40]

    NovaMundi is a procedural exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of indigenous warriors and explorers to traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations against the first wave of Spanish invaders in the XVI century. NovaMundi is…

  • NovaMundi: Take your time again [0.39]

    NovaMundi is a procedural exploration game with tactical combat in which you lead a group of native warriors and explorers who traverse the vast and dangerous territories of the Andean mountains seeking to unite the Muisca populations against the first wave of Spanish invaders in the XVI century. NovaMundi is…

  • NovaMundi – Envoy of trade [0.38]

    NovaMundi is still available on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see! It’s been six months since the last Early Access version release. There are still lots of things to Polish but I figured a release was in order for players to know we…

  • NovaMundi v0.37 – Destiny of the Muisca

    NovaMundi is still available on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see! Development has resumed in full! The biggest addition for this version is the Perks system; you can now customize your runs by selecting different bonuses, penalties, or just variations of the universe.…

  • NovaMundi 0.36.2 – Picking back pace

    NovaMundi is still available on Steam Early Access! GET IT NOW (or wishlist it) if you like what you see! This version contains two critical fixes: Cannot load games at all (root cause issues with the MuiscaNameGenerator state) Exploit: Raiding parties not saved This was just missing from the implementation of save/load.…