February 2013
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Killing Bugs (Alpha 26)
Zap! Zap! Zap! Here at French Rice Games one of our many jobs is to bring you bug fixes for unfinished games that need a lot of work in a relatively late manner. We could give you some boring details about life and only being being developed by two individuals who both are full-time students and have part time jobs… but we won’t bore you with all those boring bits. We’ll simply just copy...
January 2013
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Five Cubed
If you are reading this we can safely assume you have survived Ragnarok, alongside a new gregorian calendar year. Quite a lot to go through in just a few short days. Meanwhile in Midgard vegetation has been reported to have been propagating throughout the world. Which is quite lovely considering the real life Winter’s air.
Added Farming/Plant Life.
Added 9 Plants: Bamboo, Grapes,...
November 2012
3 posts
Ragnarok Report 11.15.12
Hope everyone has been enjoying Alpha 24, new pretty parallax and all. For those who own a Gamersgate copy your builds should now be up to date. We haven’t formally done an update post on Indiedb in quite some time so… so I figured we’d do something productive and not go watch the midnight release of Twilight tonight. We decided on polishing up and working on the new dwarf UI....
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Ice Day For An Update [Alpha 24]
Winter is coming men! Bring out those bear fur coats, brush off your moose leather boots, and let your body hair grow to shield yourself against the sharp winter air. Winter post-Ragnarok is not a place for the faint of heart. Fortunately for everyone, along with their winter apparel we have a wonderful new build just in time as the Winter’s air makes its way.
Added Parallax layers.
Added...
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Ragnarok Report 11.5.12
So decided on polishing up and working on the new dwarf UI. When you click the dwarf there would be this the compact version.
The items to the left would be his top 3 highest professions clicking the icon on the bottom left would pop up the full view for the dwarf UI.
Clicking on an equipable slot would open up a menu that would show all the available items in the players stockpile and/or...
October 2012
5 posts
Ragnarok Report 10.25.12
Parallax In Action
Unfortunately the screenshot does not do the effect any justice…
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Ragnarok Report 10.14.12
Growing Grass
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Ragnarok Report 10.11.12
Work In Progress Parallax Background.
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Today YOU Learn.
Today you learned that 2 years ago this month Survivors of Ragnarok was conceived. Yes we are proud to say the very inception of SoR has hit a landmark 2 year development cycle. The project has evolved quite a lot and through the month of October we would will be sharing how much the game has changed since it’s initial development. Survivors of Ragnarok was originally developed with the mobile...
September 2012
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(Alpha) 23 Egnima
Morbidly obscure reference aside… Alpha 23! An update so soon? That’s what happens when one sits on an update for quite some time. Literally we propped up a foot rest and relaxed and worked on Alpha 23 while Alpha 22 was comfortably underneath us. And updates the game shall have for the next couple weeks. Deadlines for this years Indepedant Game Festival are due October 17th and we will...
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A Fort Night (Alpha 22)
If you haven’t heard by now there is a huge bundle going on at GamersGate. At least that’s what the word on the street is. If you are a little late to the party fortunately for everyone you still have 9 more days before the bundle is over! There are literally a ton of great games in this bundle. Okay maybe not literally in terms of the colloquial British usage of ton. However literally two dozen...
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PLANTary Anhilation
Bad puns aside we wanted to update everyone on all the new things we have been up to lately. We finally have our hands on an actual Mac so Mac users rejoice! We should have a proper working build next release. We have a proper system to allow multi-tile buildings so all that wonderful art we had will be in-game. As for this week we have a plethora of new and awesome plant life to populate the...
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Ragnarok Report 9.2.12
PLANTary Annihilation
Strawberry
Sugarcane
Bamboo
Grape
August 2012
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Ragnarok Report 8.28.12
Multi-block buildings in action.
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Ragnarok Report 8.22.12
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Bar Legal (Alpha 21)
So back in say… oh… circa Alpha 5 or so many people requested that we implement task canceling. Although did intend to implement it eventually it took a good 16 Alphas in to finally implement the feature in game. However the most important feature included in Alpha 21 in our opinion is Dwarves now have the ability to climb walls (Spidey-Dwarf Style). This drastically adds to the...
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Ragnarok Report 8.14.12
More Workshops!
Kitchen
Bakery
Brewery
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Ragnarok Report 8.7.12
Trader’s Caravan
Scrivener’s Workshop
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Ragnarok Report 8.1.12
New Workshop Art
Carpenter’s Workshop
Stonemason’s Workshop
Smelter’s Workshop
Tanner’s Workshop
Weaver’s Workshop
Toolmaker’s Workshop
Blacksmith’s Workshop
July 2012
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Alpha XX - One X Shy of Being NSFW
Short Version: Alpha 20 Long Version: So what’s new now we have grown out of our formative and awkward teenage years? Quite a lot. Now this just might be a personal bias but SoR is shaping out to be pretty damn nice. Metaphorically Alpha 20 is a coming of age for us as much of the game is slowly leaving that “WTF am I playing.” stage to an “Oh I get it now.” state. Fog of war and in-game...
Ragnarok Report 7.18.12
Live Stream 7.16.12
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June 2012
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New Menu
Live Stream 6.25.12
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Holy Cow It's Alpha 19!
Funny story about a butter-knife and our wonderful artist. Long story short the butter-knife won. On the brightside our artist is right-handed and we also do happen to have a wonderful update ready for everyone this week. -Fixed Bug with old sound libraries causing issues on 64-bit machines. -Fixed Game state would not reset correctly when starting a new game after losing. -Added New mob...
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When Pigs Fly...
May 2012
5 posts
What A Beautiful Evening Gentlemen (Alpha 18)
In the rush to get Alpha 17 out to the public we had not taken ample time to formally apologize for our recent shenanigans. While it’s easy to blame real life problems, that was still no excuse to keep you guys in the dark for so long. We wanted to let our community know we’re deeply and truly sorry for keeping you guys out of the loop for so long. While we could easily list all the...
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Yes. Yes. No. Ninjas. Yep. We know. Funny story. Yup. Mmhmm. Yes. We’re sorry. Yeah. We promise. We love you too. So according to the ancient Nordic calender it is still March (at least the SoR lre calender). Long story short; there was an intergalactic super-dimensional tear within the space time continuum that ricocheted Garrett and myself many moons forward. Also a healthy does of...
March 2012
5 posts
Ragno Rush
We hope everyone enjoyed last weeks stockpile update. It was a pivotal update into our new crafting system up and running. This week we’ve been working especially hard and can not wait to bring you the upecoming crafting update next week. If you missed out on your chance to grab a key from last weeks update we will have ten more bundled with next week’s update. It’s a first...
Ragnarok Report 3.13.12
Sweet 16
As promised we plan on releasing all updates this month completely free. All of this leading up to our newly reworked crafting system. Our task system has been reworked to now allow for dwarfs to start stockpiling items. This is a huge step in insuring that our new crafting system works properly. There are still quite a lot of wrinkles to iron out with the system (most notably not being able to...
Ragnarok Report 3.1.12
More UI Work
