Arcane Vale Archives - Dynamic Zero

Zero published in announcements, Arcane Vale, News April 8, 2023

Arcane Vale – Out now on iOS and Android!

Hello adventurers,

I am beyond excited to announce that Arcane Vale is out now on iOS and Android! I have been working on the ports for the past few months now and after many sleepless nights it is amazing to finally get them into your hands.

Arcane Vale is an action packed open-world RPG. Embark on an adventure to discover a long-lost treasure in a vast and dangerous world.

It’s up to you to complete your fathers legacy and discover a long lost treasure as you are thrust into a world full of discovery.

Explore a huge open-world full of deadly creatures and hidden secrets. Complete quests to win favor with the local inhabitants, in return, they may just help you on your journey. Level up your skills and equipment to become stronger as you face ever more powerful and deadly foes.

Key Features –

A huge open-world to explore filled with unique characters and enemies to discover. As you explore you will encounter new and unique characters. Each with their story to tell, choose to help them in their struggles and they may reward you!

Level up your skills to become stronger. Mastering skills will allow you to craft and wield stronger weapons and armor, brew powerful potions, and cook delicious food. All will help you on your journey.

Fight your way through caves and crypts, defeating deadly bosses to unearth lost secrets and hidden treasure!

Hundreds of items to discover and unlock

This release includes the latest 0.1.6 Patch –

• Added improved out-of-bounds checks to several maps
• Fixed ‘pickup’ text for potions and bottles
• Fixed a bug that would not let you drop items you were not high enough level to use them
• Fixed a rare sound bug when hovering over the hotbar
• Added steam deck keyboard input functionality
• Added cabbage seeds to farming store inventory
• Destroying a wooden gate now returns the correct item
• Added new ‘gore’ option to the game settings (disables blood effects)
• Fixed shop bug that would take an additional item when selling 2 of 3
• Improved textbox scaling across multiple resolutions
• Quest items are now sorted to the bottom of the inventory rather than the top
• Fixed a bug that would mean you lost the pet wolf cub when choosing another pet

I hope you enjoy the game!

– Zero

Zero published in Arcane Vale, News, Patch notes April 7, 2023

Arcane Vale 0.1.6 is now live!

Hello adventurers!

Just a small patch today to address a few small bugs that were reported over the past few weeks and add some quality of improvements to Arcane Vale!

With the games launch on Switch finally complete I am now turning my attention back to adding new content to the game in future patches!

That is it for today,

– Zero

Zero published in Arcane Vale, News, Patch notes February 6, 2023

Arcane Vale 0.1.5 is now live on Steam!

Hello adventurers!

Just a small patch today to address a few newly reported issues and add a few quality of life changes. There has been alot of work going on behind the scenes and cant wait to show you more in future updates.

I am also happy to announce Arcane Vale has been approved for release on Nintendo Switch and will be coming out in a few months!

Also, trading cards have been released! This was a few weeks ago, but I never got to officially announce it. I was really excited to see the option had been unlocked for Arcane Vale to add community items and think they came out looking great!

Bug fixes –
• Fixed Milad dialogue selection bug
• Fixed Witch’s potion remaining in inventory after quest complete
• Fixed bug when speaking to Dennis that would allow you to repeat the warden distraction dialogue
• Fixed virtual keyboard on touchscreen devices not appearing
• Hotbar can no longer be activated during cut scenes
• Fixed switch double click sound when selecting character on gamepad
• Fixed rare bug with item unlock screen sometimes glitching when using workbenches
• Fixed bug that could cause you to lose the cat pet when taming another pet
• Fixed minimap diagonal movement on gamepad sometimes not working correctly
• Quest items are now sorted to the bottom of the inventory rather than the top

21×9 Resolution –
• Fixed Character creation name offset
• Fixed crafting requirements offset
• Fixed hotbar durability inventory off

Localization –
• Fixed several missing texts

That is all for today, be sure to join the official Discord channel to stay upto date on the latest development!

– Zero

Zero published in Arcane Vale, Blog, News, Patch notes January 11, 2023

Arcane Vale 0.1.4 is now live on Steam! New hotbar system + equippable ammo

Hello adventurers!

I am extremely happy to be moving version 0.1.4 from testing to live today! This update includes the highly requested hotbar system, a new dedicated ammo slot in the equipment screen, and several bug fixes.

New hotbar system –

By far the most requested addition since launch has been a hotbar. When designing the game I chose against adding one, but now that it is added and feeling good, I cant imagine it without one!

Items can either be dragged into the hotbar or added directly from the item-info screen. Once they are in the hotbar they will highlight then they are equipped, track durability and item count.

Dedicated ammo slot –

Your ammo of choice can now be equipped rather than the first projectile in the inventory being used. This should make it far easier to choose the right ammo for each fight!

Additions –

• Added new hotbar system (keys can be rebound in the game settings)
• Added ammo slot to equipment screen
• Added default language detection on initial game load
• Added new item equip sounds
• Added campfire to the workbench

Localization –

• Brand new simplified Chinese translations!

Fixes –

• Fixed language selection flags offset on 21:9 resolutions
• Fixed bug with fired projectiles sometimes vanishing when pausing the game
• Fixed character deletion button offset on 21:9 resolutions
• Removed equip option from stocks key
• Fixed gamepad slider visual glitch on mobile devices
• Fixed gamepad visual glitch when changing from 16:9 to 21:9
• Fixed bug when pausing the game quickly after attracting an item which could cause it to fly far away
• Fixed Ballian returning from a task visual glitch
• Fixed glowstick missing description in discovery items
• Fixed boss health bars sometimes flickering during fights
• Improved AI pathfinding when retreating
• Fixed bug when dying on the arena start point which could restart the battle

Balance changes –

• Reduced fiddlers attack range by 25%
• Fiddler will no longer respawn

That is all for today, please be sure to join the Discord channel for regular updates and to stay upto date with development!

– Zero

Zero published in Arcane Vale, Blog, News, Patch notes December 27, 2022

Arcane Vale 0.1.3 is live on Steam – Improved collisions, bug fixes and more!

Hello Adventurers!

I am extremely excited to push Arcane Vale 0.1.3 from beta to live. This update features a completely new, and improved collision system for the game, which makes navigating through forests much easier!

Here you can see the new collision system in action, sliding off terrain and objects (Thank you Splattercat for pointing it out!)

Also included are some improvements to the farming system, specifically the hoe, which can now be used to transform farm dirt back into grass!

Here is the full list of changes –

Changes & additions –

• Implemented ‘slippery’ collisions – Improve collision/slide off stuff
• Large chests can now be unlocked and crafted at the workbench
• Town guards will now more actively hunt and kill any monsters that enter town
• Added region names to the map
• Added new goblin worker animations
• Banners can now be picked up
• Using the hoe on farmed dirt will now revert it back to grass
• Removed weapon slash effect from woodcutting axe
• Increase cull range of solid objects slight to prevent NPC’s bypassing fences

Bug fixes –

• Fixed a bug which would allow you to loot multiple ancient artifacts at once
• Fixed visual glitch when riding horses over fire
• Fixed a bug which would cause Andy to get stuck during the ‘Teach a man to fish’ questline
• Fixed repairing items sometimes causing the item to lose its upgrades
• Fixed a rare bug which could cause the sprinkler to randomly stop working until the game was reloaded
• Fixed crash when killing sharks in the ocean
• Fixed ‘Over the hill’ quest reward taking 300 gold instead of giving it
• Fixed visual glitch when using hoe on some tiles
• Fixed bug which would allow you to enter the pirates cove while mounting without the correct attire
• Sleeping bag now correctly draws player sprite

Localization –

• Several missing translated texts have been added, some new spelling mistakes fixed

Balancing –

• Increased Compsognathus level from 3 to 5

Temporary changes –

• Temporarily changed the condition of the ‘Orcish invasion’ quest to allow hand in without Magub’s hand. Investigating why it is going missing sometimes.That is all for today, if you have an idea’s or sugesstions or want to stay up-to date with development be sure to join the discord!

– Zero

Zero published in announcements, Arcane Vale, Blog, News, Single Player December 17, 2022

Arcane Vale – Action packed open-world RPG out now on steam!

Hello adventurers!

The wait is finally over! After many sleepless nights, Arcane Vale is now available on steam for you to play and enjoy! I have been working really hard on Arcane Vale the past few years and hope you love playing it as much as I loved making it.

Arcane Vale is an action packed open-world adventure game. It’s up to you to complete your fathers legacy and discover a long lost treasure as you are thrust into a world full of discovery!

Explore a huge open-world full of deadly creatures and hidden secrets. Complete quests to win favor with the local inhabitants, in return, they may just help you on your journey. Level up your skills and equipment to become stronger as you face ever more powerful and deadly foes.

Arcane Vale 1.0 features –

A huge open-world to explore filled with unique characters and enemies to discover. As you explore you will encounter new and unique characters. Each with their story to tell, choose to help them in their struggles and they may reward you!
Level up your skills to become stronger. Mastering skills will allow you to craft and wield stronger weapons and armor, brew powerful potions, and cook delicious food. All will help you on your journey.
Fight your way through caves and crypts, defeating deadly bosses to unearth lost secrets and hidden treasure!
Hundreds of items to discover and unlock

Good luck on your adventures!

– Zero

Zero published in announcements, Arcane Vale June 13, 2022

Announcing Arcane Vale – an action packed open-world RPG!

Hiya guys,

I am so happy to finally be announcing my biggest undertaking ever, announcements! An open-world, action-packed RPG adventure game due for release late 2022. I have been working on Arcane Vale for just over a year now, stuffing it full of content.

You play as Blake, a young explorer on their first quest to discover a long-lost treasure once sought after by your father. It’s up to you to complete his legacy and find the treasure as you are thrust into a world full of discovery.

Explore a huge open-world full of deadly creatures and hidden secrets. Complete quests to win favor with the local inhabitants, in return, they may just help you on your journey. Level up your skills and equipment to become stronger as you face ever more powerful foes.

The game features a huge open-world to explore, filled with deadly creatures, quests to complete and items to obtain. There is no loading screens when traveling across the overworld and a full day and night system.

Key features –

A huge open-world to explore filled with unique characters and enemies to discover. As you explore you will encounter new and unique characters. Each with their story to tell, choose to help
them in their struggles and they may reward you!
Level up your skills to become stronger. Mastering skills will allow you to craft and wield stronger weapons and armor, brew powerful potions, and cook delicious food. All will help you on your journey.
Fight your way through caves and cypts to unearth lost secrets and treasure
Fight deadly bosses!
Hundreds of items to discover and unlock
Full controller support

I am looking forward to posting new content over the next few months! In the meantine, please wishlist the game!

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