Are you looking for help on how to use the editor? Do you need to know how to rotate or scale a tile?

Puffdot on the cobalt forums has a great post that summarizes the hot-keys as well a number of other tips!

http://www.cobaltforum.net/topic/1659-tutorial-how-to-use-the-editor/

Hey

If you haven’t got it already, Harvest: Massive Encounter is 50 % off on Steam today! Get it here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/15400

This daily deal was supposed to be coordinated with the long-awaited 1.18 update of the game, and also the fresh Mac OS X version on Steam. Unfortunately there seems to have been some kind of misunderstanding with Steam, so this update has been delayed. We’ll post again when the update is released!

Cheers,

// jeb_ and Tommo

This is more or less a bug-fix update for v103!

change-log

Alterations:

• profile names can now contain numbers as well as a number of special characters.

Bug-Fixes:

• Loading of some maps would crash because of trying to index status
• Placing tiles in the editor with a default id would crash the editor.
• hud now doesnt restart when moving through doors
• alarms would after being triggered many times lag the game down to a halt.
• some menus in the profiles had the options jumbled
• the old maps that would show up in the v103 menu will now be deleted in an ungly manner. This means that you cannot use those map names for now since they would be deleted…. =)… will remove this function in a later patch.

Hi!

Cobalt v103 Alpha is finally ready, and it contains improvements in many spread out unrelated areas, however, the biggest addition is the Map Editor! For the people who have accessed the editor previously, there is a huge amount of unlisted changes that have been made, but for the others, this will simply be the first encounter with making your own maps.

Bugs discovered post upload:

1. Due to the reorganization of the maps, there are some oddities if you are updating from v102. You might see some duplicate maps with different names in your menu. If this happens, reinstall the game from a v103, or clean out the maps folder prior to updating. (all map files that does NOT have a .localization file next to it are old.)
2. The map editor will crash if you try to place a tile that has a default ID (which goes for a lot of important tiles). This crash is bad enough that if you are already using the map editor, it is advisable to keep separate installations.

If you find bugs, please post them at http://getsatisfaction.com/cobalt/ we will be making another update tomorrow!

Hit more to read all about it!

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Hi everyone!

As some of you may know, many in Mojang and the whole lot of them Oxeye went to GDC/IGF this year. For me (thewreck) it was mostly to visit enchanting San Francisco and meet (hug) other developers, while for others – like notch who had speaking obligations – things were a bit less casual. Even while engorging myself in all the casual fun I managed to fit a bunch of work on Cobalt, alas I managed to catch the flu and was knocked out for the better part of the weekend following gdc.

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We have put together a new version for Cobalt! This update has a number of changes to how certain aspects of the game works, which will be interesting to hear what you think about! We would also love to hear if any color-blind people out there find the color blind modes useful that we added in this version!

Full change-list after the jump!

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Or Vietnam really, but it felt like another world. For those of you who don’t know I’ve studied medicine continuously since 2005 except for 2007 which I spent working full time with Oxeye, but since Friday last week (after a two weeks course in Vietnam) I’m done and can finally start focusing on Oxeye and Cobalt 100%.

Today me, thewreck and Fredrik “@Frall_”  Henriksson (who will be helping out developing the game) had a planning meeting for the development of the main campaign and I can tell you things are looking good! Next week we’ll bring along Jacob “@jjervey“ Jervey and Frall to a cottage in the middle of Sweden for a week of intensive development, so stay tuned for updates!

Love to be back in the saddle and I can’t wait to start processing all the feedback and molding it into what will probably be mine and Oxeyes biggest endeavour so far.

/Kinten

We have updated Cobalt to version v101 Alpha. Since the auto-updater had some bugs in it, you will need to download a new installer this time. Simply install to the same folder as previously.

Head over to http://www.PlayCobalt.com to download the new installer.

For a full change-log, click read more.

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Hey hey!

Some of you have had problems with your Mojang accounts, but we don’t have access to the account or billing systems so we are unfortunately not able to help you. If you have a problem with your Mojang account, gift codes or billing, please use Mojang’s support system here: http://help.mojang.com, or send them an email here: http://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/emails/new

However, if you have a problem with Cobalt itself, such as installing, starting the game or have another game-related question, feel free to contact us on the Cobalt GetSatisfaction page, or get help from the community at the Cobalt forums!

Cheers!

The first weekend of Cobalt Bonanza is over and we’ve entered a new and important phase of development – finally we get to develop the game together with you! <3

We’re taking the whole develop together with the community thing very seriously, that’s why we’ve been keeping ourselves busy with reading the forums, the get satisfaction page, twitter, mails, the IRC channel, the Reddit page and the Facebook page. Even though we might not comment on everything we manage to read about 99%. As the community grows (which it hopefully will) it will become increasingly harder for us to keep up. To remedy this we’ve decided to have getsatisfaction.com/cobalt as our main channel of communication. If you’re having issues with the game or want to share an idea, post it there!

Now to some fun stuff!

We’ve been receiving some pretty neat suggestions and ideas, some of which have already been implemented in the game.

I’ve resolved to every now and then write a post reviewing some of the more popular/interesting ideas. Below you’ll find the first list.

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