0.7.7: a lair for every lord, and the box gets its depth back
Every enemy lord has a lair now: forty-two of them, cut from paper and taped to the back wall of the box, where before a lord stood in front of whatever its theme's wall was. The box itself went through a round of changes meant to give it its depth back, and half of them came back with a line each. Around those: a boss stands a cast of curios that are its own, the battlefield moves when you dra…
0.7.3: less lag, on the desk and on the phone This one started with a phone. The Android build went out with 0.7.2 and the first report back was one word, unplayable, so most of the week went into finding out where a frame goes on a handheld, and then on the desk, where a big enough crowd was dragging the game down to 4 fps. Small and middling fights are smooth on a phone now. The crowd that sp…
Every unit on the board, redrawn Almost every piece that stands on the board is a new drawing this week. 594 of them, plus an Act 0 that belongs to Uncle Jim, three clips of your run you can send someone, and a balance desk with nothing left on it. 594 pieces, and not one landed first time There are 686 unit sprites in the game. 594 were redrawn for this build. Each one started again from the b…
Every commander gets a stage of their own This one is mostly about looking at things. Forty-two enemy commanders, forty-two hand-drawn arenas, and a browser build that finally runs like it should. The arenas Every enemy commander now fights on a stage built for them — backdrop, mat, and the standing pieces in between. Thirty-nine were redrawn for this release; the other three landed just before…
The game has a new name and a new look, and they are the same decision. Warlords is now Cardboard Conquest , because the whole game is cut out of card: every soldier is a die-cut standee on a corrugated base, every battlefield is layered kraft paper on a desk, and one lamp lights the lot. Your saves came with you. Profiles, runs and unlocks all carried across on the first boot, demo included. T…
Version 0.6.1 leads with a rule change: spells cannot touch a commander any more. They are a weapon against the army again. Behind it are a new three-part event chain, an upgrade preview on every card in the game, a camera that actually watches the fight, and another round of paint. Spells fight the army Aiming every spell at the enemy lord's face had become the way to win. The commander's heal…
Version 0.6 changes what Warlords looks like. The photoreal art that has carried the game until now steps back to being an option, and a hand-drawn cartoon style becomes the game: every card, every arena, every event illustration, every menu, drawn as one world in one style. It is the biggest visual change the game has ever shipped, which is why the version number finally rolls over. If you pre…
A battle used to begin with a loading screen: a column marching under a studio logo while the arena was generated somewhere out of sight. Now the field builds itself where you can watch it. Roads paint in, scenery drops onto its spots, the commanders take their ground, and the interface slides in from the edges. The wait is the same length. It just stopped being a wait. The battle assembles its…
This one covers more than a single version. Steam saw the 0.5.58 notes and then the 0.5.63 notes, and four versions in between never got written up here. So this is 0.5.59 through 0.5.64 in one place, and most of what follows has been live for a while. The short version: Act 1 stopped being a wall, the fight explains itself while it happens, the game runs on a phone, and every enemy card now pr…
This is the biggest visual pass the game has had. Every screen was rebuilt into one design language, four of the five warlords stopped being costumes and became rules, and the Infernal Legion is gone. In its place is Forbidden Lore, a pack about reading things you should not. Forbidden Lore replaces the Infernal Legion · The devils are gone and the pack is about knowledge now. Nineteen cards, a…
This covers 0.5.57 and 0.5.58. The theme is honesty: the enemy used to get numbers you were never shown, and most of this update is about taking those away and putting the difficulty somewhere you can read it. The enemy stops hiding its numbers · Every lord takes the same three energy a round that you do. There was a per-encounter multiplier on how much an enemy could field, tuned separately fr…
Five builds have gone out since I last wrote one of these, so this covers 0.5.52 through 0.5.56. Most of it is the fight itself: what it looks like, what it sounds like, and how much of it you can read while it is happening. The fight looks like a fight now · Archers loose real arrows and melee lands real swings. Damage used to simply appear on a unit. Every attack now has ammunition you can wa…
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