Arcen Games announce sequel to AVWW - free to those who own the first game

[Huw the Poo]

A Valley Without Wind 2 - a full sequel free for existing customers - is coming.

Is this really a sequel?
Make no mistake, Valley 2 is a true sequel -- it's a lot more different from the first game than many sequels are compared to their original.  There are a lot of changes I've been wanting to make for a while to the game, but these changes were too deep to do without angering players who bought one game and then had us change it on them to that degree.  This way players can keep playing the original in its current state (though we won't be doing much more of anything to update the original game from here on out), and they can also enjoy the awesome sequel for free as well.

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And I get this for free if I already have the first game?
Yeah.  Basically everyone will be getting both games whenever they buy either one.  Kind of like what Zeboyd Games does with Breath of Death 7 and C Saves the World.  You get both for the price of one.

Why do it this way?  Well, we think that's fairest to existing customers, for one.  And for two, we don't think anyone will be much inclined to buy the first game after they see the second.  But the first game is cool in its own right, and so that's something we wanted to preserve.   It breaks a lot of new ground that no other games have ever experimented in before, and we didn't want to just throw that out.  The game isn't perfect, and it doesn't last forever, but it's fun for a goodly number of hours and it's something that people should be able to experience for years to come if they're into that sort of thing.  Meanwhile we get to move the "Valley franchise" forward in the manner of our choosing with the sequel.

There's a lot more detail in the linked post.  Wow!