- An Unfortunately Abrupt Ending - 2 February 2018
We understand that a lot of the vocal and supportive members of our Eon Altar community have wondered just when the next episode would be coming out, and we’ve been quiet about it for way too long. I’ll hit with the bad news first – Flying Helmet Games won’t be developing any new content for Eon Altar. In other words, there won't be a Season Two. In 2012, Lukas and I had a crazy idea to use mobile devices to re-imagine the tabletop RPG in a way that digital games had been unable to, to that date. We were extremely fortunate to find a team of friends, ex co-workers and ardent supporters to help us in our cause, and even more fortunate to receive the funding we needed to get started, partly from family and friends, and in a very large part, from Creative BC and the Canada Media Fund. I can only look back at the hard work our team did to release an innovative new way of playing games with…
- An Unfortunately Abrupt Ending - 2 February 2018
We understand that a lot of the vocal and supportive members of our Eon Altar community have wondered just when the next episode would be coming out, and we’ve been quiet about it for way too long. I’ll hit with the bad news first – Flying Helmet Games won’t be developing any new content for Eon Altar. In other words, there won't be a Season Two. In 2012, Lukas and I had a crazy idea to use mobile devices to re-imagine the tabletop RPG in a way that digital games had been unable to, to that date. We were extremely fortunate to find a team of friends, ex co-workers and ardent supporters to help us in our cause, and even more fortunate to receive the funding we needed to get started, partly from family and friends, and in a very large part, from Creative BC and the Canada Media Fund. I can only look back at the hard work our team did to release an innovative new way of playing games with…
- Update #19 - Episode 3 Combat Arena and Gear Changes - 6 October 2017
What? An update? It's true! For Update 19, we're bringing you new content, and a much wanted update to how gear in Eon Altar works. First, Episode 3 Combat Arena! When we first delivered Episode 3, we wanted to make sure that our focus was on delivering awesome content for the episode, which unfortunately at the time precluded spending time on another combat arena. However, we've taken the formula we used for our first combat arena, and updated it for the latest outing! Explore the Cursed Mines and survive to Wave 20 and beyond! New achievements for surviving past the 20th Wave will test your tactical combat skills and cooperation. We're also making a change to how gear works. For a long time, folks were stuck filling their gear slots with potions to be able to survive, and couldn't really justify spending those limited gear slots on the cool items they could craft on Silent Thorn, Marc…
- Update #19 - Episode 3 Combat Arena and Gear Changes - 6 October 2017
What? An update? It's true! For Update 19, we're bringing you new content, and a much wanted update to how gear in Eon Altar works. First, Episode 3 Combat Arena! When we first delivered Episode 3, we wanted to make sure that our focus was on delivering awesome content for the episode, which unfortunately at the time precluded spending time on another combat arena. However, we've taken the formula we used for our first combat arena, and updated it for the latest outing! Explore the Cursed Mines and survive to Wave 20 and beyond! New achievements for surviving past the 20th Wave will test your tactical combat skills and cooperation. We're also making a change to how gear works. For a long time, folks were stuck filling their gear slots with potions to be able to survive, and couldn't really justify spending those limited gear slots on the cool items they could craft on Silent Thorn, Marc…
- Join the Resistance! - 8 May 2017
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/832448516436797822/D2746C8BB7DE861ADEABAAB4AFC6FD10304D8565/ The SPARK: Resistance Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns are now live! Go to our Kickstarter and Greenlight pages for more information about how you as a Spark can plunder the research corporations of Hephaestus Station in our upcoming online cooperative top-down shooter for 1-4 players. Can't afford to pledge, or want to wait and see? Vote Yes on our Greenlight page so we can bring our game to Steam and you'll be able to get it down the line! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS6u3C3ub8 We look forward to continuing to interact with our community during SPARK: Resistance as we have with Eon Altar, so don't be shy! Thanks, The Flying Helmet Games Team
- Join the Resistance! - 8 May 2017
http://cloud-3.steamusercontent.com/ugc/832448516436797822/D2746C8BB7DE861ADEABAAB4AFC6FD10304D8565/ The SPARK: Resistance Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns are now live! Go to our Kickstarter and Greenlight pages for more information about how you as a Spark can plunder the research corporations of Hephaestus Station in our upcoming online cooperative top-down shooter for 1-4 players. Can't afford to pledge, or want to wait and see? Vote Yes on our Greenlight page so we can bring our game to Steam and you'll be able to get it down the line! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRS6u3C3ub8 We look forward to continuing to interact with our community during SPARK: Resistance as we have with Eon Altar, so don't be shy! Thanks, The Flying Helmet Games Team
- What's Next for FHG? SPARK: Resistance - 2 May 2017
http://i.imgur.com/TT2281l.jpg UPDATE: Our Kickstarter and Greenlight campaigns are live! One moment you’re on the beaches of Hawaii soaking up the sun, the next you’re on a cold metal table in a monolithic space station. Your day couldn’t get much stranger. But then you died. You are a Spark—a weaponized incarnation of the human spirit—life, death, mechanics, and biology are no longer boundaries for you. You must learn to control your abilities, fight to claim powerful weapons, and learn more about the competing forces that brought you here. http://i.imgur.com/sfwWDLj.gif Flying Helmet Games has been busy over the past few months cooking up something new! We call it SPARK: Resistance—an online, cooperative, top-down, objective-based shooter for 1 – 4 players. But it’s not just cooperative in the usual sense. As a Spark, you are synced with your Core body to shoot down your enemies and…
- What's Next for FHG? SPARK: Resistance - 2 May 2017
http://i.imgur.com/TT2281l.jpg UPDATE: Our Kickstarter and Greenlight campaigns are live! One moment you’re on the beaches of Hawaii soaking up the sun, the next you’re on a cold metal table in a monolithic space station. Your day couldn’t get much stranger. But then you died. You are a Spark—a weaponized incarnation of the human spirit—life, death, mechanics, and biology are no longer boundaries for you. You must learn to control your abilities, fight to claim powerful weapons, and learn more about the competing forces that brought you here. http://i.imgur.com/sfwWDLj.gif Flying Helmet Games has been busy over the past few months cooking up something new! We call it SPARK: Resistance—an online, cooperative, top-down, objective-based shooter for 1 – 4 players. But it’s not just cooperative in the usual sense. As a Spark, you are synced with your Core body to shoot down your enemies and…
- Update #18 - Cloud Save is Here! - 21 March 2017
Welcome to Update #18! Today we bring you the refreshing overcast skies of Steam Cloud Saves. No longer do you need to manually schlup your save files from computer to computer: Steam will do it for you! It will even work across both OSX and Windows! Note that Steam only syncs on game app open and close, so if you have multiple computers you want in sync, ensure you run the game once and close it on all machines. If you've taken the time to duplicate your file across multiple machines, Steam will prompt you asking which file to keep. After that, there's nothing else to do but let Steam do its thing! A few other fixes include some reported save blockers, and the upgrade code to fix existing saves with the reported issues. You can find the full update notes here. Thanks for playing, and as always, thank you for your feedback! Let us know how it goes!
- Update #18 - Cloud Save is Here! - 21 March 2017
Welcome to Update #18! Today we bring you the refreshing overcast skies of Steam Cloud Saves. No longer do you need to manually schlup your save files from computer to computer: Steam will do it for you! It will even work across both OSX and Windows! Note that Steam only syncs on game app open and close, so if you have multiple computers you want in sync, ensure you run the game once and close it on all machines. If you've taken the time to duplicate your file across multiple machines, Steam will prompt you asking which file to keep. After that, there's nothing else to do but let Steam do its thing! A few other fixes include some reported save blockers, and the upgrade code to fix existing saves with the reported issues. You can find the full update notes here. Thanks for playing, and as always, thank you for your feedback! Let us know how it goes!
- Update #17 - Portable Save Files and Episode 3 Fixes - 24 February 2017
This update brings a much requested feature: the ability to drag and drop save files into and out of your save folder from machine to machine. This will help folks transfer save files wherever they like (assuming it's under the same Steam user account), and also help with support. This is a step towards full Steam Cloud Saves for Eon Altar, coming soon! It also contains a large number of fixes for Episode 3 content. Some folks ran into bugs that blocked their progress in Episode 3, and we've nailed each one that's been reported so far in this update. No need to worry, existing save files are covered and will also get these fixes! Thanks to our amazing community for help here, it's been awesome! The Mysterious Stranger should now load correctly on reload, including for existing saves that were broken previously, though it may take him a few moments to find you. He will be much, much hard…
- Update #17 - Portable Save Files and Episode 3 Fixes - 24 February 2017
This update brings a much requested feature: the ability to drag and drop save files into and out of your save folder from machine to machine. This will help folks transfer save files wherever they like (assuming it's under the same Steam user account), and also help with support. This is a step towards full Steam Cloud Saves for Eon Altar, coming soon! It also contains a large number of fixes for Episode 3 content. Some folks ran into bugs that blocked their progress in Episode 3, and we've nailed each one that's been reported so far in this update. No need to worry, existing save files are covered and will also get these fixes! Thanks to our amazing community for help here, it's been awesome! The Mysterious Stranger should now load correctly on reload, including for existing saves that were broken previously, though it may take him a few moments to find you. He will be much, much hard…
- Update #16 - Episode 3: The Watcher in the Dark - 19 January 2017
http://i.imgur.com/NPZWUoK.jpg Eon Altar: Episode 3 - The Watcher in the Dark is now out for your playing pleasure! Episode 3 contains two new sessions: The Paths of Madness and Hall of the Builders. After the defeat of Lady Allevia and putting an end to her centuries-old torment, a mysterious, powerful figure has saved you from Guild Lord Davian's attack and left you in the dark caves below. Explore the mined-out caverns below the Catacombs of Tarnum as you try to get back on Davian's trail, starting in The Paths of Madness--a place of terror that's claimed many miners' lives. What creatures await you in the dark? What does this mysterious benefactor want, and can he help you escape? Or is escape what he's even after? Come heroes of Arilia, your destiny awaits! More Story! Your characters continue their journey to the Eon Altar. Will Shasek find the treasure he seeks? Will Silent Thorn…
- Update #16 - Episode 3: The Watcher in the Dark - 19 January 2017
http://i.imgur.com/NPZWUoK.jpg Eon Altar: Episode 3 - The Watcher in the Dark is now out for your playing pleasure! Episode 3 contains two new sessions: The Paths of Madness and Hall of the Builders. After the defeat of Lady Allevia and putting an end to her centuries-old torment, a mysterious, powerful figure has saved you from Guild Lord Davian's attack and left you in the dark caves below. Explore the mined-out caverns below the Catacombs of Tarnum as you try to get back on Davian's trail, starting in The Paths of Madness--a place of terror that's claimed many miners' lives. What creatures await you in the dark? What does this mysterious benefactor want, and can he help you escape? Or is escape what he's even after? Come heroes of Arilia, your destiny awaits! More Story! Your characters continue their journey to the Eon Altar. Will Shasek find the treasure he seeks? Will Silent Thorn…
- Update #15 - Are you Ready for Giving? - 20 December 2016
http://i.imgur.com/D07l51Tl.png Welcome to Update #15! As usual, while we've been busy with Episode 3, we've also been busy building new features and making Eon Altar better for our existing and new players! Just in time for the holidays, you can now give items and resources to your friends in-game! While some items are unique to a given character and cannot be traded away, most items can. And you can now trade in the combat arenas, as well. So give the gift of healing and hand over those Vials of Copperweed! You can also now finally start a game without hitting the Start button on the computer! Once you're in a campaign and everyone has joined, everyone can hit "Ready" on their own controller and the game will boot up in 5 seconds!. http://i.imgur.com/2xdcFsAl.png In other features, the game's been tracking your player-to-player relationships this whole time quietly, but we haven't bee…
- Update #15 - Are you Ready for Giving? - 20 December 2016
http://i.imgur.com/D07l51Tl.png Welcome to Update #15! As usual, while we've been busy with Episode 3, we've also been busy building new features and making Eon Altar better for our existing and new players! Just in time for the holidays, you can now give items and resources to your friends in-game! While some items are unique to a given character and cannot be traded away, most items can. And you can now trade in the combat arenas, as well. So give the gift of healing and hand over those Vials of Copperweed! You can also now finally start a game without hitting the Start button on the computer! Once you're in a campaign and everyone has joined, everyone can hit "Ready" on their own controller and the game will boot up in 5 seconds!. http://i.imgur.com/2xdcFsAl.png In other features, the game's been tracking your player-to-player relationships this whole time quietly, but we haven't bee…
- January 19th - Episode 3: The Watcher in the Dark - 15 December 2016
We're really excited to announce the final Episode of Season 1, The Watcher in the Dark, will be coming January 19th. In just over a month you'll be following up on the exciting finale of Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iadxLm7qW0I More story, more enemies, more "accidentally" fireballing your friends! Spoiler Alert for those who haven't completed Episode 2: After the defeat of Lady Allevia and putting an end to her centuries-old torment, a mysterious, powerful figure has saved you from Guild Lord Davian's attack and left you in the dark caves below the Catacombs. Ancient ruins lost to history, a malevolent race, and this mysterious figure's agenda all stand between you and Davian: survival isn't enough; your destiny awaits. Check out the Episode 3 store page on Steam to follow and to add it to your wishlist. So order the pizza, soda, and/or beer, hop on the couch with your f…
- January 19th - Episode 3: The Watcher in the Dark - 15 December 2016
We're really excited to announce the final Episode of Season 1, The Watcher in the Dark, will be coming January 19th. In just over a month you'll be following up on the exciting finale of Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iadxLm7qW0I More story, more enemies, more "accidentally" fireballing your friends! Spoiler Alert for those who haven't completed Episode 2: After the defeat of Lady Allevia and putting an end to her centuries-old torment, a mysterious, powerful figure has saved you from Guild Lord Davian's attack and left you in the dark caves below the Catacombs. Ancient ruins lost to history, a malevolent race, and this mysterious figure's agenda all stand between you and Davian: survival isn't enough; your destiny awaits. Check out the Episode 3 store page on Steam to follow and to add it to your wishlist. So order the pizza, soda, and/or beer, hop on the couch with your f…
- Eon Altar: Prelude Free Demo Now Available! - 23 November 2016
For those who've yet to try Eon Altar, we now allow folks to play the Prelude for free! Check out the demo link on the side of the store page to grab the game and try it right now. Follow the instructions in the image below to get your journey started, and if you decide to purchase the game, your demo save will work with the full game. For our awesome community: some may be wondering, why make the Prelude free? One of the things we think many are aware of is that Eon Altar is a very...unique game. Maybe a bit weird, even. For those who took the plunge into Eon Altar nearly sight unseen, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We honestly couldn't have made the game we have so far (and keep making!) without your continued support and input. Between using mobile controllers and the unique playstyle Eon Altar presents that seems to defy traditional marketing, many folks are hesitant to…
- Eon Altar: Prelude Free Demo Now Available! - 23 November 2016
For those who've yet to try Eon Altar, we now allow folks to play the Prelude for free! Check out the demo link on the side of the store page to grab the game and try it right now. Follow the instructions in the image below to get your journey started, and if you decide to purchase the game, your demo save will work with the full game. For our awesome community: some may be wondering, why make the Prelude free? One of the things we think many are aware of is that Eon Altar is a very...unique game. Maybe a bit weird, even. For those who took the plunge into Eon Altar nearly sight unseen, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We honestly couldn't have made the game we have so far (and keep making!) without your continued support and input. Between using mobile controllers and the unique playstyle Eon Altar presents that seems to defy traditional marketing, many folks are hesitant to…
