Category Archives: Sabres of Infinity

November Content Update

It’s that time of month again: time for a new installment of The Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea

We’re making a slight digression in this part of The Welles Report with a series of maps showing the progress of the Battle of Blogia. Now you can see where every battalion of infantry, every squadron of cavalry, and every battery of artillery was at the crucial points of the battle.

This is the first time I’ve added genuine real-live pictures to any of my patron-backed content. This was made possible thanks to the 48 generous patrons who’ve helped me meet my first-stage goal of $150 a month. The next goal, at $300 a month, will bring with it a second monthly column, this time devoted to the politics and society of The Fledgling Realms, the setting of The Hero of Kendrickstone and its upcoming sequel, The Cryptkeepers of Hallowford.

If any of this interests you, feel free to pledge your support through my Patreon page. A $1 US a month gets you access to new content a week in advance.


October Content Update

Another month means a new chapter of The Welles Report in A Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea. This section covers the end of the Battle of Blogia and its immediate aftermath. I can assure you that those of you who’ve played Sabres of Infinity will have a lot to like in this bit.

If you want to see more writing like this. Please do not hesitate to donate to my Patreon. We’re just a touch short of $150 a month now, which means we are on the cusp of seeing every new article accompanied by some artwork by yours truly. I’m sure some of you are looking forward to that!


Steam Summer Sale Bundles Available Now

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Some of you may have already noticed that Steam is currently having their annual Summer Sale.

What you may not know is that Choice of Games has put up its entire catalogue on sale at a 25% discount. On top of that, they’ve put all of my currently published work up in a series of bundles, which are discounted even further.

That means you can get a bundle consisting of Mecha Ace and The Hero of Kendrickstone or one made up of Sabres of Infinity, and its sequel, Guns of Infinity for a total of 44% off!

If you haven’t had a chance to pick up any of those titles, now would probably be the best chance to nab them.


Introducing: A Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea

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Today marks the release of the first installment of my Patreon-funded series: A Soldier’s Guide to the Infinite Sea, a monthly column dedicated to exploring the culture, history, and politics of the Infinite Sea, the setting of Sabres of Infinity and Guns of Infinity. While patrons do get access to funded content a week in advance, all content will be openly available for free on this site via the Patreon Content page.


Guns of Infinity Out on Steam

Good news: it looks like Choice of Games has managed to sort out all of the problems relating to the Steam release, and now both Guns of Infinity and its immediate predecessor Sabres of Infinity are available for purchase on Steam!

You can take a look at the Steam pages for both Guns of Infinity and Sabres of Infinity here.


Patreon Page Now Online

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Over the past few months, I’ve been coming to the realisation that the sort of in-depth world-building I do for works like Sabres of Infinity aren’t particularly financially sustainable. By spending months and months tweaking cultural biases and orders of battle, I’m able to make my stories take place in richer, fuller worlds. Skimping on the process leads occasionally to works which could have ended up being better. However, spending all that time on it also slows down my writing process appreciably, to the point where I’m not really doing paying work at the rate that I’d really want to. Guns of Infinity has proven to be a pretty good example of that: taking the time to build up the political and cultural forces that drive the story have made it a better one, but it has also taken the better part of eighteen months, and releasing one title every year and a half isn’t really anything I can live off of by itself.

So, I’ve decided to fuel my “extracurricular” worldbuilding with a Patreon page. In exchange for the funding provided by generous patrons, I intend to make publish a series of articles on the settings of my two ongoing series (The Infinite Sea of Sabres/Guns of Infinity, and The Concordat of The Hero of Kendrickstone). These articles will deliver in-depth explanations and examinations of the culture, politics, and minutiae of these settings, and will be made publicly available here on this website, in the hopes that you will enjoy reading about the details of my worlds as much as I enjoy creating them.

You can find my Patreon page here.

Secondly, some great news: barring any sort of major emergency, Guns of Infinity will be releasing tomorrow. It bears repeating that due to the way that Choice of Games has to juggle a release on six separate platforms with six different approval processes that this is not guaranteed. However, if nothing horrible happens, then everyone should be able to get their hands on a release copy sometime in the next twenty-four hours.


Coming to Steam: Sabres of Infinity and Guns of Infinity

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I’ve got some good news, and I’ve got some bad news.

Well, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I’ve got some good news with maybe a little bit of a dark lining: both Sabres of Infinity and Guns of Infinity are going to get released on Steam.

Needless to say, I couldn’t be happier about this: a Steam release means that both IFs will be made available to millions of new potential fans, people who perhaps would have never known about my work otherwise.

The “problem” is that a Steam release also means a great deal more work for both me, and Choice of Games. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on overhauling some of the old art for Sabres (You may have noticed some of that new art gracing both the header image to this post, and the Sabres of Infinity page. Don’t worry, the existing versions will be getting an art update as well). In the meantime, Guns of Infinity has been getting a once-over by a professional copy-editor, and both titles are getting CoG’s customary kinematic text Steam trailers. This means that it could be a matter of weeks, or even months before Guns of Infinity is ready for launch. However, it also means that the finished product will be more polished and receive a wider release than it would have otherwise, and that that simultaneous release of Sabres of Infinity on Steam would introduce a whole new audience to my first published IF.

I suppose that’s more than worth the wait.


Good News, Bad News and Other News

As the title might suggest, I’ve got all sorts of news today.

The bad news first, I suppose: It turns out Armor Games’ HTML5 portal isn’t quite set up yet, and won’t be for a few more months. That means that’s possible Master of Fortresses 2 might not see a release until early 2015.  That being said, I’m still working on it. Almost all the maps are complete, and I’ll likely be uploading a video update sometime tomorrow to show off some new mechanics which tackle some of the glaring issues with Master of Fortresses 1.

The good news: this delay not only means that I have more time to polish and bugfix, but also that I can start work on new projects ahead of schedule. The most prominent of which is Guns of Infinity, a direct sequel to last years’ Sabres of Infinity, picking up right where the first part of the story left off. As the months go by, I’ll post a few snippets of what I’m working on up here, and maybe discuss a few of the themes and bits of lore, if that ends up being a popular draw.

Lastly, I am also working on another project as a writer-for-hire for CoG. I’ve already got about a third of the text done. I look forward to revealing more information about that in the future as well.


Sabres of Infinity has a TVTropes Page Now

So, a few awesome individuals over at the Choice of Games community forums have started putting together a page on TVTropes for Sabres of Infinity, which is awesome. For those of you who’ve never heard of it, TVTropes is a wiki which takes story conventions and literary devices (called “tropes”) present in media and listing the ones that appear in specific work for the reading entertainment of others.

Considering that giant crowds of people read articles on TVTropes, and many learn about new games, books and shows from finding that work’s article on the site (I know I have), this page could serve as a major publicity tool.

So, check out SoI’s page here, and If you feel you have something to add, feel free to do so!


Sabres of Infinity Patch 1.1.1 (For iOS)

So, the iOS version of Sabres of Infinity patch 1.1.1 is out, after the customary 8-day delay which the AppStore uses to screen incoming updates. This patch (which has been out on the Chrome Web Store and Google Play for some time now) addresses the most salient complaints which the original release received.

Changelog:
-Checkpoint system added: Dying in game will now give you the option of reverting to the beginning of the current chapter. However, these saves are not permanent, and will be wiped if you exit the app.
-Copy-editing: I would say that the vast majority, if not all the grammatical errors and typos are now fixed.
-Final Battle Rebalance: The Battle of Blogia has been tweaked. While success/failure thresholds are still the same, the “critical failure” requirements which lead directly to death have been lowered dramatically.