Quoting: redneckdrowWait a darn minute, I thought ConcernedApe was a one-man show?

I highly doubt this guy has any right to use these assets. They've barely been modified.

ConcernedApe hired staff a couple of years ago and has been working with them since. Much of what they've been doing is stuff for Stardew updates while he works on Haunted Chocolatier.

EDIT: Five years, in fact. He started hiring in early 2019, presumably getting ready for the big 1.5 update at the end of 2020.

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Watched a stream of this earlier today, and there's quite a lot of room for optimization. A number of bugs too, but nothing game-breaking that I saw.

That said, it seems pretty good so far. It's got good bones and a pretty satisfying gameplay loop. The fog mechanic is interesting and it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. Worth keeping an eye on, for sure.

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Quoting: SoulprayerIs it more like Valheim or like PUBG?
First game i like very much, last game is not my type of tea.

As I understand it, it's more like Ark, but without dinosaurs and somewhat better optimized.

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Quoting: finaldestRemember this conspiracy, You will "OWN NOTHING" and "BE HAPPY"

The funny part is, she (Ida Auken) wasn't talking about what she wanted, she was describing where she thought corporations were headed anyway. And she was right.

The original quote went on to say "What you want you’ll rent, and it’ll be delivered by drone".

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We'll see if it's a playable game. From what I've heard, their previous attempts have been janky attempts to cash in on other games' popularity, like replicating a lot of Breath of the Wild stuff (and even the splash screen) in Craftopia.

I expect this will be popular with streamers thanks to the edgy bits, at least.

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Holy cow, it's actually coming out? I backed that years ago, and eventually turned off their updates because they were advertising other games too much. So it had completely fallen off my radar. Wild to see it pop up again like this.

Trailer looks decent though.

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The (current) flatness of the terrain is something I hope they change, since a vertical building system calls for radical changes in elevation. So you can connect a building from its upper floors to the lower part of something up a hill, and so forth. Something I used to do in Subnautica a lot, since that has stackable modules too.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemIf there is no running water I'm going to be pissed.

Static water bodies feel so damned lifeless in NMS - needs waterfalls and rivers.

That and the exceptionally shallow seas. I think they made them a *little* deeper, but they're still basically wading pool a few dozen metres deep.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDon't get me wrong--I'm a science fiction fan. I've been reading SF since before I saw the first release of Star Wars in theatres and thought it was fun, but kind of bad SF. But it's just as cliche-prone as fantasy. Pretending otherwise is an attempt to create a false objective basis to personal taste.

I think this is because Star Wars isn't SF per se, it just uses a SF setting. Rather, it's a pastiche of a number of genres that were familiar at the time -- Samurai flicks, Erroll Flynn swashbucklers, WW I dogfighting movies, and so forth, that just happened to be set in space. Likely because one of the elements was old Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials, and they used a SF setting. If you were going to categorize it, I think the old term "science fantasy" is more accurate, although a lot of the later stuff and fan-made material moved the idea closer to "proper" science fiction. But if you were looking for Asimov or Clarke, you wouldn't find them there.

But back to talking about the preview itself, am I the only one getting more of an Irish "fae" vibe rather than the typical Tolkein-derived style?

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I liked Kind Words, although I was a little late to the party.

This trailer though, it seems like the emphasis is off letter writing altogether. I still see the paper airplanes, but it's just little one-liners of conversation otherwise. Hopefully there's still space for it.

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Quoting: NezchanI'm trying to get it from the PPA repositories listed on their site, but I'm getting an error that there isn't a Release file, and my system disables them by default. So apparently I don't get the new version.

Presumably they haven't updated since Ubuntu (and variants) went to 23.10 in, uh....October.

You're right, looks like 23.10 hadn't been enabled in the build settings. I've built a version for 23.10 now[/quote]Works great, thanks.

Now if only the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup devs would do the same...

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