Once again we have a little patch for Elemental War for you. This time we fix two bugs we stumbled upon while working on the next entry of the Elemental War series, Elemental War Clash.

Full changelog

• fixed sometimes a wall being added on a path
• fixed upgrading rage tower while its bonus is active permanently boosting the tower

We are happy to announce a new game in our tower defense series: Elemental War Clash! It combines the best features of Elemental War 1 and 2 to create a new and better experience:

• Dozens of different towers with different abilities and strengths
• 3 singleplayer modes: Hero Mode, Classic Mode, Survival Mode
• Plenty of passive and active items as well as tower equipment
• Monster abilities from Gold Rush to Invincibility to make each run unique
• Different and visual stunning environments from desert to ice world
• Different skills with multiple upgrades to customize your playing behavior
• Plenty of different monsters and elementals
• Several quests to unlock new items for Hero Mode
• Level editor to create and share new maps

Hi everyone, Welcome to cyberspace! Our next game HexaScape: Cyber Defense has just been announced - and it comes with a demo! HexaScape: Cyber Defense is an addictive mix of hex grid puzzles and tower defense mechanics to create a compelling turn-based strategy game. So if you are a strategy player or a board game addict, this game is for you! Be sure to give it a try: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2647510/HexaScape_Cyber_Defense/ [previewyoutube=MajT21aXqeU;full][/previewyoutube]

After the current gen version of Elemental War and the patch 1.11.1 not much did happen for Elemental War this year. Of course its a quite old game, but as still a lot of people play it and we also stumbled upon some bugs, we fixed them and now have a new patch for you. We fixed the Looper achievement that was harder to unlock than it should have been, improved the Water of Life quest and fixed a few small issues here and there. If you find anything else, let us know and well see what we can do.

Full changelog

• fixed Looper achievement only unlocking under certain conditions
• fixed title of battle summary in leaderboards not getting translated
• fixed ingame menu not closing clicking on continue button having opened the menu with the simulated cursor on controller
• fixed missing padding between platform icon and username in scoreboard
• fixed dropdowns not being easy to use with controller
• fixed water puddles for Water of Life quest being barely visible
• fixed flask progess not always being properly displayed
• fixed time controls being triggered when navigating while in bottom menus or in ingame menu
• fixed Griffin being able to catch elementals

Well, this new patch for Elemental War is really small content wise. There was just one bug report that mentioned blue towers after loading a savegame. This issue is now solved and the patch will be available on all platforms today. This is our last update for Elemental War. If you find any critical bugs we of course will continue support, but besides that dont expect any more updates here.

Full changelog

• fixed rare issue causing towers loaded from a savegame being blue

As we worked again on Elemental War anyway due to some other ports we decided to also update the other versions and so we added Steam Deck support! In general dont expect huge jumps from this update. We slightly improved the graphics by adjusting post processing and raised texture quality. Besides that are just a bunch of minor tweaks and some adjustments required for Steam Deck. This is our last update for Elemental War. If you find any critical bugs we of course will continue support, but besides that dont expect any more updates here.

Full changelog

• slightly improved post processing
• Steam Deck adjustments

• fixed random network connection popups
• fixed pressing back button in buy modifier overlay keeps the menu open, but goes to the upper alliance menu
• fixed wording in build tower tutorial text

Its finally time to announce our new tower defense CyberTD, a mix of tower defense, roguelite and deckbuilding taking place in our cyberspace setting now called Triverse. Working on it since April this year were finally ready to announce our new game, CyberTD! Its a tower defense game, mostly turn-based, roguelite with deckbuilding and inspired by Taur, Core Defense and Slay the Spire. You have one tower to defend the cyber core against viruses. Each wave you can select an upgrade to enhance your tower and its customizable loadout of weapons and active abilities to strengthen your defense and explore different combinations. Play it alone, in local or online multiplayer both in coop and a versus mode or on Twitch with or against your chat! You can already wishlist the game. Doing so will help us a lot, even when youre not going to buy it in the end, so please consider it and tell all your friends about it as well! CyberTD shall be released on PC (Windows, Linux, Mac) in 2023. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2109510/CyberTD Check out our announcement trailer: [previewyoutube=0-INm_7mdt4;full][/previewyoutube]

Today we release Elemental War 1.10.1 with a few bugs we noticed while working on Elemental War 2 and a critical issue with two achievements on Xbox and UWP. During the development of Elemental War 2 we found a few bugs that also affect Elemental War. So we decided to backport them even though they arent too critical (mostly savegame related) and nobody ever reported them.

Full changelog

• fixed score stats for overall scores not working
• fixed newsticker being cut off
• fixed Cerberus ability
• fixed unhovering monsters/towers not always working properly
• fixed Transform tower not working properly when loading a savegame
• fixed 'What the beetle hides' quest automatically succeeding when loading savegame
• fixed bug that caused tower damage to be reduced when loading savegame with gravity orb equipped to a tower

Today we announce our next game: Elemental War 2! Elemental War 2 takes you into a threatened world: hordes of monsters suddenly pour out of the abysses of hell from a faulty summoned portal. Will you manage to build a defense line of defense towers against the forces of evil in time? Elemental War 2 offers you the popular tower defense feeling combined with innovative game mechanics: as soon as you defeat an elemental a particularly strong enemy that will demand everything from you youll receive its element stone, which you can use to build new defense towers. As you keep collecting elements, youll always have new levels and tower combinations at your disposal. Only if you skillfully combine the different towers and make use of their advantages will you be able to stand up to the monster hordes. Through in-game side quests, youll also unlock items that further enhance the abilities of your towers or decisively weaken your opponents at just the right time! Elemental War 2 offers you dozens of hours of gameplay to develop strategies, complete all the quests and discover all the secrets of the game world. The lovingly hand-built maps offer you varied games and always new challenges! Features

• The popular tower defense game principle with new gameplay elements
• Face the powerful elementals and their special abilities
• Solve quests to unlock upgrades for your towers
• Play 15 varied maps in three unique environments: forest, ice and desert
• Play alone or in co-op mode
• Compare yourself with other players in the global leaderboards

Elemental War 1.10.0 is now available on all platforms and brings the game to the same state as the upcoming PlayStation release next week. Since the Elemental War 1.9.0 release in February we fixed a few small issues we now that we passed PlayStation certification want to release to all platforms. The changelog contains a few things that only affect individual platforms and some that are relevant for all. On all platforms we fixed the behavior of Windrunner, fixed two typos and improved the Shockwave effect. On consoles or using controller we improved saving maps in the editor and navigation in there. Only on Xbox (and that wont work on PlayStation!) we also enabled the minimap now as it finally doesnt crash anymore there (but sadly still does on PlayStation). And for PC only we added the option to change the UI scaling. So if you think the UI is too big you can now reduce the size via the settings file. Here are the steps how to do that:

• navigate to C:\\Users\\\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Clockwork Origins\\Elemental War
• open settings.ini
• in UI category enter Scale=, scale factor = 1 is like the default, < 1 makes UI smaller, > 1 makes UI bigger

Full changelog

• added support for tower shortcuts on consoles using keyboard
• added UI scaling for PC version only via settings

• improved shockwave effect
• fixed Windrunner attacking wrong area after moving it
• fixed minimap crash on Xbox and so reenabled minimap functionality there
• fixed controller navigation in editor from right most column of map to name
• fixed saving on maps that failed sometimes (especially on Xbox)
• fixed tooltip scaling on resolutions greater than 16:9
• fixed typos in two monster names

Elemental War 1.9.0 with several controller improvements and autosave is out now. The update fixes several small issues all over the place, mostly controller related, improves the mouse simulation using a controller and re-adds the old autosave functionality that got a complete redesign to work better now.

Full changelog

• score rank achievements now also work without account
• reimplemented autosave functionality

• fixed several small issues
• fixed drawing with controller for quest 'Knowledge acquired at school, refreshed'
• fixed same map being uploaded multiple times
• fixed controller navigation for "Play challenge" button
• fixed placement of "Play challenge" button to not overlap with "Show tooltips" hint using a controller
• fixed news ticker updating user based news too slow
• fixed alliance event markers not being properly shown
• added link to editor tutorial to editor view
• improved switching between mouse/keyboard and controller usage
• improved controller sensitivity for cursor moving
• fixed leaving alliance not resetting everything in view
• fixed controller navigation when trying to join an alliance

Elemental War 1.8.0 brings several small fixes here and there from controller issues over balancing and functionality problems to graphical issues. The fixes target a range of problems like graphical issues, controller problems and some functionality not working as expected. Also balancing was slightly adjusted as there was a bug that broke proper duration calculation for some status effects.

Full changelog

• fixed transparency of leafs on Root Nexus tower
• improved position of Report Content button
• disabled platform icons for alliance scores
• fixed tooltips placement in general and another bug for resolutions other than 1080p
• fixed network issue notification message
• fixed stun, fossilize and shadow root duration being too long
• fixed stunned enemies not restoring their walk animation
• fixed loading of some data for non-Steam PC versions
• fixed controller navigation in ingame menu and editor
• fixed crash when killing monster with Disturbance ability
• fixed typo in German translation
• removed culture info from settings as it was kinda stupid (still can be configured in ini if necessary)
• fixed some LODs
• fixed damage dealing sometimes not working properly with certain abilities (e.g. Gizmo)
• improved error message when path in editor is not correct
• fixed display name of map author not being displayed properly when using special formatting
• fixed jump to player in leaderboard not always working properly
• unregistered players are also displayed in leaderboards locally now

September has ended and were closer to the console launches of Elemental War and Tri6: Infinite than ever before! And we have a first release date as well! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-october-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord. https://store.steampowered.com/app/917850/Elemental_War/?snr=1_5_1100__1100 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120390/Tri6_Infinite/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

Elemental War 1.7.6 is a small hotfix release mostly affecting the Steam version. As a small addition to yesterdays update to Elemental War 1.7.5 we have a small hotfix. Thats necessary, as we found out the Steam version doesnt properly restore some stored data like the tutorial progress which is very inconvenient. We also fixed two more small bugs.

Full changelog

• fixed some data not being loaded properly playing on Steam
• increased brightness of skip button for dialogs
• fixed Code of Conduct text not being visible

Elemental War 1.7.5 provides a few more bugfixes and improvements. As we received a few bug reports since the last update we decided to release another patch to fix those. It mostly affects the render issue after completing a game, but we also fixed everything else we found in the meantime or got reported.

Full changelog

• author of mods now is tracked
• added feature to report inappropriate content

• fixed password reset not working when trying to enter e-mail address
• fixed back to menu after game leading to render issues
• fixed overlapping screens
• exchanged platform icons in leaderboards
• fixed potential bug when Vampire transforms to Vampire Bat in Hero Mode
• hopefully fixed appearing empty message box

Due to a bug report and our progress on the console versions we have a new Elemental War update with some fixes. The last update was quite a while ago and in the meantime we worked a lot on the console versions to finish them. As we got some critical bug report a few hours ago we decided to release another update before the official 1.8.0 release that contains already all fixes we did in the meantime. The critical fix is for an issue in all multiplayer modes when starting a second game in an existing session.

Full changelog

• added hint how to scroll and show tooltips in menus with controller
• added hint how to open element and tower menu with controller

• fixed memory leaks for Healer and Sacrificer ability
• Balrog doesnt burn itself anymore
• fixed savegames for certain environments in Hero Mode
• fixed Death tower being too bright
• fixed Stun tower being just white under certain circumstances
• improved look for Black Hole teleport effect
• fixed Black Hole projectile being invisible
• improved Fire tower sound a little
• fixed missing walk animation of some monsters after they have been stunned
• fixed controller navigation in game settings, audio settings, leaderboards, alliance challenge menu and alliance help menu
• fixed wait spinner never being removed when showing alliances to join
• improved highlighting of currently selected leaderboard entry
• fixed rank not being properly displayed when player is not on page 1
• fixed wrong buttons being mentioned in camera tutorial when playing with PlayStation controller
• fixed second coop/multiplayer session in a row not working properly anymore

August was a very busy month with the final spurt on the console versions of Elemental War and Tri6: Infinite, four content updates for Tri6: Infinite, a big Spine update and our new animated logo. And September wont be less busy! [previewyoutube=F8Ws11UG-Do;full][/previewyoutube] This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-september-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord. https://store.steampowered.com/app/917850/Elemental_War/?snr=1_5_1100__1100 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120390/Tri6_Infinite/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

Tri6: Infinite release and future plans, Elemental War entering console certification soon, Red Skies: Ascension progress update and a big Spine update coming in August read about it now! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-august-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord. https://store.steampowered.com/app/917850/Elemental_War/?snr=1_5_1100__1100 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120390/Tri6_Infinite/?snr=1_5_1100__1100

Finally our second game, Tri6: Infinite, has been released for PC (Windows, Linux, Mac) on Steam, itch.io and Kartridge. Tri6: Infinite is an endless racer in a Tron like cyberspace setting. Randomly distributed obstacles with increasing difficulty level, virus opponents and 11 powerups provide plenty of variations. The longer you survive the higher your score gets and you can try to climb to the top of the global leaderboards. For even more fun, Tri6: Infinite even contains a four player splitscreen mode to play against your friends. For additional challenges were partnering with 4Players and SCILL Play. SCILL Play is free to use and provides you with challenges you can solve in Tri6: Infinite to increase your SCILL level and unlock exclusive skins. If youre a streamer/lets player and want to cover Tri6: Infinite, feel free to check out our woovit campaign. On Twitch we also enabled some drops. Just keep in mind you have to link your accounts with our own account system for it to work. Check out some gameplay with developer commentary we captured in June: https://youtu.be/ngNsbwgrNHU If you want to try out the game first, you can download our free demo via Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120390/Tri6_Infinite

The first half of the year is over and we have released an Elemental War performance update, made progress on the Red Skies: Ascension dialog tool, had a big Spine update and the Tri6: Infinite demo has been released as well what a month! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-july-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

After a long time we finally finished Elemental War 1.7.0 with huge performance improvements! More than two months after the last update and a lot of work we finally finished our next update. We upgraded to the latest Unity version and a new render pipeline. Additionally we also improved some CPU bottlenecks in the code. The end result is performance gain of around 100% in most cases which is pretty awesome! Additionally we fixed some bugs we discovered that already were present in previous versions and we improved multiplayer, especially for the Steam version of the game. We will continue our support and now focus mostly on the console versions again to release them later this year.

Full changelog

• upgrade to Unity 2019.3 and URP for better performance

• reduced volume of Pentagram attack
• fixed main menu in 4K resolution
• fixed tooltip showing when dragging item from one tower to another
• fixed navigation via minimap clicking for resolutions > 1080p
• fixed sometimes the same item spawning twice
• improved multiplayer connection when playing via Steam
• improve multiplayer performance
• adjusted balancing a little

Elemental War performance optimizations, Red Skies: Ascension demo progress, Spine getting support for games besides Gothic and Tri6: Infinite demo close to release! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-june-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

Corona is still going on and so is our work. Performance improvements in Elemental War, demo for Tri6: Infinite coming soon, a Spine update and progress on Red Skies: Ascension this and more now in the progress report! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-may-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

First quarter of 2020 is over and despite the whole COVID-19 crisis we made good progress with a clear roadmap for the Elemental War performance improvements and Tri6: Infinite beta start! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-april-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120390/Tri6_Infinite/

This month's maintenance update Elemental War 1.6.0 improves performance a little, fixes a bug and added a feature request. After a small delay of a week we now have the regular update for you. On the performance side we have some first optimizations, but the big boost will come in the next weeks. We will set up a beta branch probably in two or three weeks. As the whole upgrade process will require a lot of testing we hope some of you will join the beta branch and help us to ensure everything is still working as expected. While working on these optimizations we also got a feature request and a bug report. The bug was the Money tower resetting its orientation on upgrade if it has been rotated by the player. The feature request was to show the remaining active item cooldown also in the tooltip in the inventory. Both things have been done for 1.6.0.

Full changelog

• added remaining cooldown for active items in tooltip

• improved audio performance
• improved level performance
• Money tower now keeps its orientation on upgrade

Just a small heads-up! This weeks Elemental War update is delayed by one or two weeks. It has nothing to do with COVID-19. Its just that it took longer than expected to figure out a solid plan for the performance optimizations. The whole optimization process will be split up in a few different steps. We already did some performance optimizations for the whole audio processing for 1.6.0. But we want to improve the levels for 1.6.0 now as well. This will already give a small performance boost. Depending on how long it will take we will delay 1.6.0 by one or two weeks. It wont be more. The next step is already bigger. We will upgrade to a newer Unity version. That alone wont bring any performance benefits, but allows us to use some new techniques that will help. There are two things: The Universal Render Pipeline and DOTS. The Universal Render Pipeline is a new and a lot improved rendering pipeline Unity developed in the last years. We already use it in Tri6: Infinite and its pretty cool. A first try with Elemental War gave us around 50% better performance on Xbox One in the benchmark scene, thats already a lot. DOTS stands for Data Oriented Technologies Stack and is also a new thing in Unity we also use for Tri6: Infinite. It makes it easier to write more CPU friendly code and use multithreading in Unity. This will mean we have to rewrite some of the functionality of Elemental War, but therefore it will be way more performant afterwards. So the plan is to release 1.6.0 with the optimizations we can already do now, then we will upgrade Unity and convert to URP which will end up on a new beta branch we will set up for that purpose. While thats being tested, we will upgrade our code base to DOTS where it makes sense and push these changes to the beta branch as well. If you have any balancing concerns or bugs, please let us know, either as comment, in the discussions, via the Feedback functionality ingame or on Discord.

Last month of the first quarter of 2020 already reached and our projects and the team as well made very good progress! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-march-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

This month's maintenance update Elemental War 1.5.0 improves controller support and adds some bugfixes. As you might know we're currently porting Elemental War also to Xbox and PS4. These platforms of course require proper controller support. Even though Elemental War supports controllers since release and in some beta state even since Early Access, we found some things to improve again. A big problem was for example the speed of the simulated mouse cursor, especially on screens with a different resolution than 1920x1080. Also the menu navigation felt not perfect as it wasn't possible to use the digipad and when navigating to the top bottom and try one up it was stuck and didn't switch to the bottom most button. The latter two things were more or less just things we personally prefer, there are games that support it and others that don't. But in our opinion it feels better now and as the code for that was already prepared by our next game Tri6: Infinite it wasn't a big deal anyway. Another big topic is again performance. Even though we spent a lot of time to improve the performance, we found out that the CPU performance on consoles is pretty bad at the moment. For us that means a lot of additional work to optimize the game further. For the PC version that means that you will get better performance as well. Some small improvements are already part of 1.5, but we have to figure out how to solve the big problems now.

Full changelog

• improved mouse simulation with controller
• improved controller navigation in main menu
• added digipad navigation to main menu
• performance improvements

• cursor now is hidden while game is started
• fixed Steam rich presence
• fixed progress display of monster hunter achievement
• disabled tutorials in benchmark
• adjusted buttons in profile menu (text length)
• Pegasus doesn't decrease speed anymore if it's already higher than its effects
• fixed opening of leaderboard using controller

Almost missed that its already February again. So time for the second progress report this year! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-february-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

This month's maintenance update Elemental War 1.4.0 has been released with some new bugfixes and a feature request to always show at least one entrance portal in the top area of the default camera. With this update when starting a map, the default rotation of the camera will ensure that at least one of the start portals is in the top area of the screen. Of course you're still able to rotate the camera as you like, but it should be a little easier now to find the entrance point. Besides that we fixed several small bugs we found while playing or got reported. Mostly cosmetic stuff, nothing crucial. Another good news: Elemental War got approved for PlayStation 4! That means besides the Xbox One port we're also working on a PS4 port soon.

Full changelog

• at least one start portal now is always on top of the map

• fixed error when activating controller for the first time in a submenu
• damage type change is only shown now by Joker when the tower is selected
• when logged in only via linked Steam account alliance score is now displayed properly
• Root Nexus effect is removed now when last Root Nexus is sold
• inventory can be closed again using the close button
• slightly improved CPU performance
• removing item from slot 3 now updates the tower overlay properly
• game restart now clears tower and monster info screen
• optimized login button for login hint
• dragging an item from one tower directly to another one now drops the items always on the correct tower

Its 2020 already for a few weeks now and so we want to look back on what we achieved in 2019 and what we have planned for 2020. This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full news on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/past-and-future-2020/ We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

The new progress report is now live and contains many updates for all our projects and future plans! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-january-2020 We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

This month's maintenance update Elemental War 1.3.0 has been released with some new bugfixes and quality of life features. On the feature side we added a new feature that allows to join lobbies of friends/invite friends to a lobby when playing via Steam. This will make it a little easier to play together with friends now. Then there have been as usual some small performance fixes. So we slightly improved general performance of all distance based checks (e.g. if a monster is in the range of a tower). This will especially help with a lot of towers and monsters, but won't be a big breakthrough. The other performance optimization only affects the multiplayer. There it will help to keep the game lag-free even with a lot of towers and monsters on the map which could lead to big lags sometimes before this fix. There are more changes you can find in the changelog below. There is also our christmas event running which gives you a special item for Hero Mode you can only unlocked during christmas time! So play Elemental War in the next days to unlock it and keep it forever. And if you don't own Elemental War yet, we also participate in the sale. Furthermore we now changed the versioning of our releases. To explain it: Each of our releases is a combination of ... The major version will be changed if something really, really big changes, mostly something like a remaster/remake. But that would probably a new game and isn't planned at all. Usually we only use 0 for the time before release (alpha, beta, early access) and 1 afterwards. The minor version will change with every regular update. These are the planned updates that at the moment are released every month. In case we need a hotfix, like 1.2.1 and 1.2.3, we will now use the patch version for. This won't change much for you, but it helps us a little with planning as we don't need to rename milestones anymore due to an unforeseen hotfix.

Full changelog

• leaderboards now show the platform of the player
• changing later to a Clockwork account now applies scores and experience
• it should be possible now to join lobbies of friends/invite friends via Steam

• fixed missing own scores (marker) when only being logged in via account linking
• improved keyboard/controller navigation in login screen
• fixed missing name of local player in multiplayer when not logged in and host
• fixed cut off text in player dropdown in lobby
• slightly improved CPU performance
• unregistered users can't create challenges anymore
• improved multiplayer performance in late game (client)
• speed up of online features for Steam users
• maps created or requested by non-Steam users can be downloaded now

The new progress report is now live and contains many updates for all our projects and future plans! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-december-2019 We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

Small hotfix incoming! We accidentally broke the game as soon as the Blade Machine tower is built. This hotfixes fixes the tower again and contains some other small fixes we noticed or got reported since the 1.2.2 update on Friday.

Full changelog

• added hint when there is no internet connection available during game start
• mods now show the platform they've been created on

• fixed missing scores in challenge tooltip in singleplayer menu
• Blade Machine doesn't cause game hanging anymore
• fixed rare bug when Freeze tower wants to add status

The new Elemental War update 1.2.2 adds again some new Quality of Life improvemens, small performance improvements and bugfixes. I always was a little annoyed that I had to open the minimap and inventory again for every game even though I keep them open for the whole time anyway. Now we finally added a persistence layer there to automatically open them again if they were open in the last run. It's also possible now to link your Steam account with your Clockwork Origins account. That means when you switch PCs and use the same Steam account, you will automatically log into the game on your second machine. This also works for our other games in the future. Regarding the performance improvements we could slightly reduce the CPU usage for most moveable stuff. That affect e.g. movable parts of towers (like gears and pumps), the gold earned hints and even the monster healthbars above their heads. It's not a huge boost, but a nice small improvement.

Full changelog

• quest button now is hidden when no more quests are available
• inventory state (opened/closed) now is carried into next game
• minimap state (opened/closed) now is carried into next game
• added platform to players in lobby
• Steam account now can be linked to Clockwork account

• slightly improved CPU performance
• fixed players not being able to join multiplayer challenge lobbies
• fixed bug that caused achievements to be unlocked again for every game start when playing non Steam version
• fixed Shrine tower affecting the limit of Acid tower status
• fixed potential bug in multiplayer regarding status changes
• selling multiple towers at once now properly deselects all of them
• sold towers can't be upgraded anymore

The new progress report is now live and contains many updates for all our projects and future plans! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-november-2019 We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

This Elemental War is meant to fix a bug that caused registering an account didn't work. There are also a few other fixes that were done since the last update.

Full changelog

• if a multi-selected tower can't be upgraded it is deselected properly now
• fixed error that could happen when updating monsters
• fixed potential error in Life Stealer ability
• fixed too much memory being used for some effects
• fixed projectiles not always being removed properly
• fixed bug that caused register button to be hidden

The new Elemental War update is now available and adds several new maps! The half has been submitted by our community during our map contest, the other half are maps from the team. Besides that there were the usual improvements and fixes. We discovered a huge bug that caused the wrong lighting settings being used. It doesn't make a difference on the visual side, but might affect performance on some systems (so it's probably better now). Couldn't measure a big difference on my machine in the benchmark though, but my fps are weird for a while now, I guess it's some driver issue.

Full changelog

• added 10 maps from the community into the official map pool
• added 10 maps from the developers into the official map pool
• improved performance when changing global volume
• privacy policy now can be opened from profile
• cloned towers being selected via multi-select can't be sold and upgraded anymore
• Charisma monsters aren't switched with every attack now as long as they stay in range

• fixed error when monster has exactly 1000000 HP
• fixed missing text during upload of a map in the editor
• fixed bug in editor that caused way to be used twice for some crossings
• fixed error in English translation of "Fully charged" achievement
• fixed wrong lighting settings being used (might improve performance under certain circumstances)

What's next?

Our new progress report is now live and contains not just only the usual updates, but this time also the official announcement of our new big project, the post-apocalyptic RPG with turn-based combats Red Skies: Ascension! This report covers Elemental War, Red Skies: Ascension, Spine and Tri6: Infinite. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-october-2019 We hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your opinions on it either here or better on our Discord.

Today's update is rather small with some imrpovements and fixes. The most important fix is the one that fixes the thumbnails for Steam Workshop. Why? Because today we want to start our first map contest!

The Map Contest

Full changelog

• shift + tab now allows to jump to the previous UI element
• HP now are displayed now shortened when too long

• hosting private game works again
• fixed rare bug that could lead to restart/back to menu not to work anymore and requiring a shutdown of the game
• fixed thumbnail generation for Steam Workshop

Update 1.1.1 is an out of order update for Elemental War due to two bugs that were discovered that lead to exploits giving a huge advantage ingame. Besides the fixes there is also a bigger change regarding the map editor. Starting with this update the editor is integrated directly into the main game and no standalone application anymore. This slightly reduces the size of the game in total and is necessary to release on some other platforms that just allow one executable per game.

Full changelog

• added cooldown to time updates in co-op so players don't disable pause mode for each other
• level editor now is directly integrated into the main game

• dragging item from one tower to another one doesn't duplicate it anymore
• keep mouse in screen toggle now is properly restored when game is restarted
• fixed limitation of Gulp
• dragging none equipment item on a tower resets its slot correctly again now

The Elemental War co-op update is now available! With 1.1.0 you're able to play Classic and Survival Mode together with up to three friends. That was a feature that was requested by some players and now we're able to release it. These two modes mostly behave the same as in singleplayer including all singleplayer features like calling waves and controlling the time to speed up, slow down and pause. We just slightly adjusted the gold so you're not lost due to the split resources. You can have a look into the gameplay in our Let's Play: [previewyoutube=MSpS1gPPTmM;full][/previewyoutube]

Full changelog

• added co-op mode for Classic and Survial Mode for up to four players
• added tooltips for setting events explaining what's happening
• setting event notifications now can be clicked to jump to the place of the event

• Shrine now deals more damage when attacking cursed monsters
• Shrine weakens monsters longer now on higher upgrades
• increased mine limit
• slightly increased damage of Ritual Site
• Shadow Golem now stays longer on the map

• reduced amount of updates of Taxman tower damage in multiplayer
• ranks 9-12 now are displayed properly in the leaderboards
• probably fixed graphics issue on some Linux systems with Radeon GPU
• disabling grid for map now works again
• if connection to a server can't be established player isn't asked anymore if he wants to leave the lobby
• status mode now can be configured for Hourglass tower
• fixed path wall display issue on Accordion map (mod)
• fixed potential error with status changes after loading savegame
• leaving and re-entering lobby works now
• when entering the challenge menu directly from the news ticker and then going up to the alliance menu the flag now is updated properly
• buffs of other towers now are respected by Root Nexus (e.g. Buffer)
• disabled create challenge button for players without alliance
• fixed Money tower sometimes not dealing damage
• ones doesn't get interest anymore in Classic Mode when already at wave 60
• restarting a challenge without entering the main menu again now updates score properly so New Highscore message isn't displayed after every run
• reduced network traffic in some cases

What's next?

Here is the second progress report since we introduced them. This one will cover our work in August and give an outlook on September. And there is going to happen a lot again! This report covers Elemental War, Spine, Tri6: Infinite and our new main project. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-september-2019 http://store.steampowered.com/app/917850

A new update for Elemental War is now available and we have a bunch of new quality of life improvements and bug fixes again. The changes include improvements for the alliance and challenge system, some performance improvements and user wishes like a display of the element of the next wave and the possibility to drop items also on the physical tower instead of on the inventory slot of the tower. We're keeping up the updates and in September we will release a big one bringing co-op for Classic and Survival mode. That means you can play these two singleplayer modes on all maps including mods with your friends!

Full changelog

• challenges now can be created and accepted by any alliance member
• players for alliance invitation now can be filtered by name and activity in the last 30 days
• alliance stats now are displayed in flag tooltip in the scoreboard
• items now can also be dropped onto physical tower
• element for next wave now is always displayed

• adjusted modifier prices a little

• fixed Superfood modifier causing game to not work properly anymore
• accepting a challenge now properly decreased notification marker in alliance menu
• updating of the damage type of a tower now also updated the tooltip properly when this tower is selected
• reduced offset of tower overlay for Tornado tower
• improved mouse simulation using controller
• limit of 2 alliances per multiplayer challenge works now
• alliance scoreboard now is also displayed in alliance menu when not in an alliance
• entering join alliance menu the first time during a session now still shows alliance list
• invitation label now is properly disabled when last alliance invitation is declined
• while loading stuff in the alliance menus a loading spinner is displayed now
• lobby isn't removed anymore when a participant leaves it
• buying a modifier now directly updates the available alliance gold
• bonus/malus range handling for towers now is always relative to the current range instead of absolute
• kills done via splash damage now directly update kill count in tower info screen
• kills via status change now also count for the tower that caused it
• fixed slots next to a path on the border of a map to being able to build on
• too long map names now are displayed smaller in the level list
• slightly improved performance of Money tower
• improved performance and memory usage with multiple towers of the same kind
• added some additional checks in case upload of a highscore doesn't work properly
• restarting game while monsters/towers are on the map now keeps loading screen alive until all monsters are removed
• restarting game while monster with Resurrection ability is on the map doesn't respawn Zombies for the new game
• reduced CPU usage especially with many towers and monsters on the map
• Tornado and death effect don't spawn in the air anymore for flying enemies
• experience progress bar after match should show correct progress now
• added check when trying to leave a multiplayer lobby

Welcome to our new monthly progress report. In this series we want to keep you informed about the progress on all our projects we worked on in the past month and give you an outlook for the upcoming month. This is the first of these reports and will cover July and give an outlook on what we're going to do in August. This report will cover our already released projects Elemental War and Spine, officially announce Tri6: Infinite, a new small project we're working on, and tease our new main project. Read the full progress report on our homepage: https://clockwork-origins.com/progress-report-august-2019/

Update 4 for Elemental War is ready to be played now. This time have a few bugfixes and improvements mostly for quests and challenges. We also added more of your feedback like timestamps in the alliance chat or an optional grid on the map. We're still getting a lot of feedback and have some more updates plannend. And in September you can expect a big update introducing Co-op for Classic and Survival Mode!

Full changelog

• increased limit of chat messages in lobby
• added hint to multiplayer menu that one can look for other players in the Steam discussions or on Discord
• it's possible now in multiplayer to give money to teammates
• added hint how chat in multiplayer works
• map description now is saved in Editor
• added timestamp to alliance chat
• added optional grid on the map (game settings)

• increased dps of Steam and Smoke tower
• reduced explosion damage of Gas Bubbles

• pressing RB/LB on controller while B is hold now keeps camera rotation
• kills via status change now also count for the tower that caused it
• changing alliance name works again
• chat messages now stay visible for a longer time
• typing chat message now doesn't trigger spawner anymore
• when a player leaves the lobby his skills now are disabled too
• new highscore notification for challenges now only appears when the score is better than the previous challenge score
• improved performance on Island environment
• alliance rank change news now contains the info, that it is for alliance
• challenges now can also be created when the start day is in the next month
• create challenge button now is removed when creating a multiplayer challenge and being already in challenge menu
• it's now possible to create a new singleplayer challenge while one is running
• added highlighting to mushrooms for Witch Cauldron quest when hovering them
• in multiplayer only the monster sounds for monsters close enough (field currently observed) are played
• apostrophe now is always correctly displayed in chat messages in alliance
• projectiles now still fly to the target position and deal splash damage if the tower has it even though the target monster isn't there anymore
• clicking on Play Challenge for a multiplayer challenge now opens multiplayer menu
• improved spacing of chat messages in alliance
• reset password working again
• fixed condition for Gold Fever quest
• fixed typo in English translation of Time Bombs quest
• fixed Transform tower chance to transform
• logout now disables the region selection

The launch week is over and we received a lot of awesome feedback. With today's update we add some bugfixes and improvements and target parts of your feedback. More will follow in the next weeks. And we're also working on integrating Co-op so you can play at least Classic and Survival mode together with friends.

Full changelog

• it's possible now play multiple challenges at once

• disabled own screenshot functionality when playing on Steam
• building or upgrading many towers at once doesn't increase volume of build sound anymore
• fixed animations of Money and Pitch tower
• flask for Witch Cauldron quest is now removed when quest is completed
• progress for Witch Cauldron quest now is properly updated
• added validation for map name in editor to avoid special characters that are incompatible with the filesystem
• fixed several small internal errors
• Battle Summary is now empty for alliance scores
• fixed error when pressing Ctrl + (0-9) while no tower is selected
• improved scores/gold for alliances actively participating in challenges
• new highscores reached in a challenge now also count for leaderboard
• fixed minimum size of alliance flag tooltip in leaderboard
• alliance score properly restored now when challenge was played from alliance menu
• when checking alliance score at last before leaving game Steam progress on score rank statistics isn't set to 0 anymore (visual issue only)
• monster sounds of elementals now have a higher priority than normal monster sounds
• background music now also continues during loading screen
• loading a map/creating new map in Editor now clears the description
• remaining alliance time now is also updated in challenges menu in alliance
• fixed English translation for Frozen status
• fixed English translation for Midas status
• gold earned via Money Tower now appears directly in front of the tower
• fixed condition for unlocking quests for Bloodseeker's Scythe and Wicked Knife
• improved description of Witch Cauldron quest

The launch weekend passed and we decided to release another small update to fix some more stuff that came up during the weekend. We also added two small features that have been requested. Of course we will continue fixing bugs and improving the game with the feedback we get, so make sure to share your experiences with us.

Full changelog

• Editor now shows grid lines
• tower kills now are also displayed for all upgrades

• fixed error in editor when trying to save a map with empty path
• fixed several small internal errors
• accepting/declining alliance entry requests now correctly updates the marker
• fixed some cut off characters
• tower kills in multiplayer now are displayed properly

Our release went pretty well and we already received some good feedback and also some new bug reports. This patch will tackle the first ones and increase stability in some edge cases. We will continue evaluating your feedback and improving Elemental War in the next days, so please don't stop telling us your opinions ;)

Full changelog

• camera tutorial info now can be closed right from the beginning
• fixed error leaving game in controller mode
• fixed error loading savegame with many projectiles on the map
• being not logged in doesn't highlight all alliances anymore in alliance leaderboard
• Nature tower now uses correct idle sound
• fixed several small internal errors

Today, after 9 months, Elemental War is leaving Early Access. We added a lot of features in this time and want to sum up the highlights in this news.

Highlights

Alliance System

Map Editor

Multiplayer

Full changelog

• added special sound when new elemental spawns
• added seven more quests with achievements
• added another achievement
• added sounds for some towers
• added progress bar for interest countdown below gold panel
• added earned interest below gold panel
• added unlocked tower levels to tower info screen in main menu
• increased frequency of swamp gas

• reduced negative effect of Hourglass tower
• slightly increased malus for multiple Root Nexus
• decreased damage of Taxman tower in end game of multiplayer

• restarting game when choosing elements yourself now works properly again
• it's easier now to solve quest 'Gold Fever'
• improved some tower upgrade tooltips
• scrolling in achievement view works now
• fixed animation of Money tower
• added missing word in English description of Sustained achievement
• fixed map editor not working for maps with start portal in a corner
• DPS in damage tooltip now are updated when attack speed is changed while tower is selected
• fixed an issue that caused some texts in some menus being cut off in the front
• fixed error on Mac that caused UI elements becoming invisible after they've been highlighted
• reduced RAM usage
• decreased loading speed of ingame settings
• fixed broken Mine tower animation
• fixed performance problem in multiplayer
• gold text now gets scaled in case it would overflow the box
• fixed typos in English achievement descriptions
• map editor now should be able to properly publish to Steam Workshop also on Linux
• changing the alliance flag now also updates the preview
• fixed tooltips sometimes causing game to hang up
• background music in editor now uses same volume settings as the main game
• fixed display error of T crossings in editor when loading a map
• fixed error hinting player where to go with T cross in editor
• hint to manually select next path for unclear paths in editor is triggered just once per path now
• Gas Bubbles now raise again

What's next?

Just two weeks left until the full release of Elemental War. Almost done!

Highlights

Full changelog

• score rank achievements are progress achievements now on Steam
• added remaining monster sounds

• fixed conditions for achievements 'Man of Steel', 'Combiner' and '3 in 1'
• path preview for challenges now looks better
• score rank achievement isn't triggered on every start anymore
• reduced flickering of HP bar of monsters with regeneration
• tried another minimap fix for Linux
• fixed bug that caused element buttons to be inivisible at first on Mac
• fixed target cursor sometimes being active in highscore panel
• fixed rare bug that caused leaving the highscore menu sometimes not to work properly
• tower build achievements aren't unlocked anymore in benchmark
• fixed unlocking of Completionist also happening when just restarting the game often enough
• fire of Smoke tower isn't highlighted anymore
• it's possible again to sell multiple towers at once
• steam of Steam tower isn't highlighted anymore

What's next?

Four weeks left until we release Elemental War and we're perfectly in time.

Highlights

Achievements

Editor

Full changelog

• added label to drawing board for quest 'Knowledge acquired at school, refreshed'
• added tooltip for hidden achievements so it's clear they are hidden
• added notification sound when player joins lobby
• added controller support to Editor
• none Steam users now can also download maps
• added path preview to challenge
• total score used for score rank now is displayed in tooltip as well
• added a lot of new achievements

• playing singleplayer challenges works again properly
• tried a fix for black minimap on Linux
• reduced amount of network messages in Clash Mode
• fixed error happening sometimes when starting a second game during a session that could cause game start to break
• changing target/status type with multi selection now shows the correct icon
• opening the settings from the ingame menu is faster now
• fixed tooltip of target change button changing back to previous one when selecting it
• field marker for Net and Moral Boost skill are removed now when effect is applied
• fixed controller cursor being below multiplayer info screen in-game

What's next?

Full release is coming closer and closer and we're still in the process of improving Elemental War!

Highlights

Controller Support

Multiplayer

Full changelog

• added menu music
• added tutorial infos for multiplayer
• improved highlighting of disabled skills when selecting them via controller
• improved portal tutorial part
• improved ingame controller support
• it's possible to speed up to 10 times
• added rich presence for Steam
• added more monster sounds
• slightly improved performance
• multiplayer now can also be played without a Clockwork account

• Ok button for camera tooltip now is always properly displayed after fullfilling all conditions
• disabled tutorials for multiplayer
• Transform tower now can transform monsters again
• leaderboard overlay now can be shown with controller using LB
• leaderboard now can be opened with controller
• disconnect message now isn't displayed anymore when game was already finished
• fixed controller navigation in level select menu
• fixed small bug that could happen while building Root Nexus
• Root Nexus now gets weaker again when building many of them
• fixed some rare script errors
• fixed conflict of quest for "Arcane Shield Generator" and tutorials
• fixed error when finishing a game while monsters with Hydra ability are on the map
• Volcano projectile collision now has a sound
• fixed info boxes in main menu that could overwrite each other
• fixed another problem loading a save from Class Mode
• smoke of Smoke tower isn't highlighted anymore
• fixed bug in multiplayer that could cause the level to be loaded twice
• fixed bug that caused item to disappear when dragging it to the wrong position
• fixed bug that caused game to hang up when trying to play an alliance challenge
• tooltips now are always properly removed when using controller
• tower utilization is displayed again in info screen
• fixed alliance invitations label being empty

What's next?

Just 8 weeks left until our full release on July 19th! And we're still busy polishing the game.

Highlights

Controller Support

Quality of Life

Tutorials

Full changelog

• added an easteregg
• tower kills now are shown in tower info screen
• when a player leaves a multiplayer game, all other players now get a notification
• when getting kicked from a multiplayer game due to a timeout player now gets notified
• added optional damage indicators
• added some statistics for Kartridge
• on Discord you can see now some infos when playing Elemental War
• game now can be started from editor to test a map
• editor now can be started from the game main menu
• added Credits page
• added some more monster sounds
• it's possible to see some first tooltips easily now using controller
• integrated some tutorial infos in the normal game flow

• performance improvements
• during restart of a map loading screen is shown again
• fixed some rare errors in different code locations
• alliance names with tag in the name now are visible in the flag tooltip in the leaderboards
• fixed bug with Shadow Golem when corresponding Ritual Site was sold/upgraded
• rotation of spheres in multiplayer for team 2 should be correct now
• Stun attack effect looks better now
• fixed several issues when shutting down the game
• fixed several controller bugs in main menu
• closing and re-opening on screen keyboard properly deselects last used button
• fixed bug that caused all UI elements on Mac to be invisible when using an own shader
• weird random bug when starting a game should be fixed now
• rank tooltips won't be shown anymore fore empty slots
• joining alliance works again
• rank for Classic Mode in alliance overview now is displayed correctly
• join alliance button now visible in help menu