Academagia: The Making of Mages Steam news

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• Review score71% positive
• Total reviews290
• Release dateAug 13, 2010
• DeveloperBlack Chicken Studios, inc.
• PublisherBlack Chicken Studios, inc.

Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Black Chicken Studios, inc.Publisher: Black Chicken Studios, inc.

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Academagia: The Making of Mages Steam news

Academagia: The Making of Mages news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• Update to Version 3.0.22 - 20 January 2018

  In this Content Patch... - "Bitter Stalks" duration error finally corrected - Background conflicts (or lack of appropriate conflicts) resolved - Multiple Item categories altered for usability - Minor Item Ability corrections - Some minor Skill revisions, with at least one new Ability added - Minor Location Ability revisions - Missing Adventure Exit names (and in a few really galling instances Exit text) restored - Minor Ability/Action prereq revisions - Multiple Lores rewritten for clarity (and editorial sanity) - An Adventure and an RE from Rhialto added - 500++ typos corrected Thank you to all who worked with us to provide data and corrections. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the g…

• Update to Version 3.0.22 - 20 January 2018

  In this Content Patch... - "Bitter Stalks" duration error finally corrected - Background conflicts (or lack of appropriate conflicts) resolved - Multiple Item categories altered for usability - Minor Item Ability corrections - Some minor Skill revisions, with at least one new Ability added - Minor Location Ability revisions - Missing Adventure Exit names (and in a few really galling instances Exit text) restored - Minor Ability/Action prereq revisions - Multiple Lores rewritten for clarity (and editorial sanity) - An Adventure and an RE from Rhialto added - 500++ typos corrected Thank you to all who worked with us to provide data and corrections. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the g…

• Update to Version 3.0.12 - 30 June 2017

  This small update includes a critical fix for a repeatable crash due to Clique infighting. If you were unable to progress further in the game due to Clique infighting, update 3.0.12 should resolve this problem. Thank you to all who worked with us to provide data and helped to solve this issue. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at the official forums: http://academagia.invisionzone.com/index.php?s=7df238425b1cebfc489a442a759b9519&showtopic=516 Cheers, Black Chicken Studios

• Update to Version 3.0.12 - 30 June 2017

  This small update includes a critical fix for a repeatable crash due to Clique infighting. If you were unable to progress further in the game due to Clique infighting, update 3.0.12 should resolve this problem. Thank you to all who worked with us to provide data and helped to solve this issue. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at the official forums: http://academagia.invisionzone.com/index.php?s=7df238425b1cebfc489a442a759b9519&showtopic=516 Cheers, Black Chicken Studios

• Update to Version 3.0.11 - 19 June 2017

  This update includes: (1) Options like Exiting the game, and Turning Off/On the music, have been enabled during Story mode. (2) A rare crash caused by Binding Phemes during Dueling has been fixed, as well as UI oddities related to Dueling. (3) Fields in the Control window are no longer slightly cut off at the bottom. (4) Clique break up prevention is now working correctly, allowing one day to resolve any relationship issues. (5) Cache-related error detection has been improved to auto-delete the cache when it has become corrupted. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at th…

• Update to Version 3.0.11 - 19 June 2017

  This update includes: (1) Options like Exiting the game, and Turning Off/On the music, have been enabled during Story mode. (2) A rare crash caused by Binding Phemes during Dueling has been fixed, as well as UI oddities related to Dueling. (3) Fields in the Control window are no longer slightly cut off at the bottom. (4) Clique break up prevention is now working correctly, allowing one day to resolve any relationship issues. (5) Cache-related error detection has been improved to auto-delete the cache when it has become corrupted. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at th…

• School s in: Hogwarts sim Academagia is on Steam - 15 May 2017

  Academagia originally came out seven years ago, when Kieron ‘Funny Pages’ Gillen described it as “a scarily deep Princess Maker with Wizards”. It’s a Hogwarts simulator, in which you play the role of one of the new kids at a school for magical sorts, and have to go to classes, learn magicks and other things, make friends (and enemies), and involve yourself in plots and adventures. Primarily text-based, it’s a massive, complex life sim in which character creation is so baffling and time-consuming that I’ve never actually started the game. Maybe now is the time. The “definitive” version is on Steam, bringing an interface overhaul, all existing DLC, and plenty of bugfixes. …

• Update to Version 3.0.9 - 11 May 2017

  This update includes: (1) Ability to Lock Layout (2) Fix for major problems with Steam overlay. Shift/Tabbing issue is related to this. (3) Fix for 1-member clique issue and no reporting when cliques break up (4) Improvement to differentiate new story text from old story text after choice selection (5) Fix for rare crash involving saves and not being able to load them due to corrupt config file. If you think you are still having this problem, be sure to delete your old config.xml file in the main Academagia install folder. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at the offic…

• Update to Version 3.0.9 - 11 May 2017

  This update includes: (1) Ability to Lock Layout (2) Fix for major problems with Steam overlay. Shift/Tabbing issue is related to this. (3) Fix for 1-member clique issue and no reporting when cliques break up (4) Improvement to differentiate new story text from old story text after choice selection (5) Fix for rare crash involving saves and not being able to load them due to corrupt config file. If you think you are still having this problem, be sure to delete your old config.xml file in the main Academagia install folder. As always..... -------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at the offic…

• Update to Version 3.0.8 - 27 April 2017

  This update includes: (1) Fix for bug related to Clique Abilities not appearing under your abilities (your old saves should be fine) (2) Fix for duplicate windows for entering Familiar Name (3) You can now Save a Game by pressing "Enter" instead of the down arrow button next to it (4) Spacing added between radio buttons and Story choices Thank you to all who worked with us to provide data and helped to solve these problems. The first one is a major bug, so we recommend that you enable updates. If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at the official forums: http://academagia.invisionzone.com/index.php?s=7df238425b1cebfc489a442a759b9519&show…

• Update to Version 3.0.8 - 27 April 2017

  This update includes: (1) Fix for bug related to Clique Abilities not appearing under your abilities (your old saves should be fine) (2) Fix for duplicate windows for entering Familiar Name (3) You can now Save a Game by pressing "Enter" instead of the down arrow button next to it (4) Spacing added between radio buttons and Story choices Thank you to all who worked with us to provide data and helped to solve these problems. The first one is a major bug, so we recommend that you enable updates. If you are having problems with the update/download (it gets paused for unexplained reasons), try exiting Steam and restarting your computer. You may need to right click on the game in Steam, to manage/resume the download. For other common issues, please visit our Troubleshooting topic over at the official forums: http://academagia.invisionzone.com/index.php?s=7df238425b1cebfc489a442a759b9519&show…

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