Quoting: LanzI hope this is good. Ion Fury was fantastic, but Voidpoint seems to care a LOT more about polish and quality than Slipgate Ironworks.

I guess that's why their gates slip.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusAs someone who likes the fishing mechanics, fish frenzies sound interesting.

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Added a special cutscene after you’ve helped your new neighbors grow their family to the max.

Wait, are you a midwife in this game?!

I'm confused as well. Not sure if this is something added in 1.6 (which I haven't had much time to play yet) or something I'm just forgetting already exists.

I mostly assumed it was more playing matchmaker, lol. Midwifery never even occurred to me!

Just to be clear, which I didn't expect I'd need to, it was a joke.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Added a special cutscene after you’ve helped your new neighbors grow their family to the max.

Wait, are you a midwife in this game?!

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My wife watches the heck out of that.

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Added a special cutscene after you’ve helped your new neighbors grow their family to the max.

Wait, are you a midwife in this game?!

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Phantom Furry!

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPGodot is a highly stable engine with cross-platform built into it from the get-go, however.
And World Of Goo not exactly a game that will push graphical boundaries.
So that should keep the chances of platform-specific issues rather low. Hopefully.

This isn't the World of Goo thread, but what you've said probably applies here.

In this case I suspect they'd have ended up doing it anyway, and were in any case pretty near 100% confident they'd hit the lower end stretch goals, but you have to pad the list or it looks way too sparse.

I think there's an art to doing these goals + stretch goals. You want to make the base goal sound substantial but be something you're pretty sure you can easily reach, so you can impressively blow through the first few "stretch goals" and it will be exciting. And if you have that expectation, you want those first few "stretch goals" to be things you are totally planning to do and know how to do them--really part of the base plan, just nice features that look good as goals. Then the middle goals can be things that you wouldn't mind doing but you'll have to hire someone, ideally with fairly predictable costs--so like this game as you get up into the middle has stuff about different language support, which basically involves paying a translator to translate a known amount of stuff. At the high end you can have aspirational stuff that might actually be difficult but if you have gobs of money what the heck. So in this case, Linux is in those early "They totally knew they'd raise that money" stretch goals, meaning it was probably in the plan all along.

Obviously I can't prove any of this, it's just my impression of how this stuff would be done.

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It's a sequel to a classic game, by the original people, and it's gonna be on Linux, and I believe they're using Godot. The classic game got open sourced, it's in your distro's repository for free. This is great news. I have a lot of goodwill here, I'm not going to rain on their parade unless I have some actual bad news about these particular developers and this particular game--I really don't care that other people doing other games have in the past done bad things.

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Seems to me this is less "a story of a person losing their shadow" and more a story of a shadow losing their person.

Definitely the most adorable shadow-spirit-creature I've seen in a while.

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Quoting: whizse"Poo on Your Parade" :tongue:

It's a lot of fun, and everything seems to be a playable level. I really went to town on the credits sequence with a leaf blower!

That part is almost realistic, crows do actually make and use tools, [External Link] it can only be a question of time before they master power tools...

Whoa. That crow video is pretty cool.

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So, um . . . what is it? Is it an RPG-type thing?

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