According to a post on Steam they've hit a hundred thousand copies sold now. :happy:

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Stop, Liam! My sides can only take so much laughter! 😂 Not at your playing (I certainly wouldn't be any better), just at the entire inherently hilarious concept. It's funny because just this weekend I was idly musing about games being developed for the Deck where its gyroscope would be an important part of the game, and here one is!

Quoting: constThis replaced Aperture Desk Job as my showoff game for the Deck. It's just instant fun, both playing and looking over the shoulder.

I may have to do this.

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Seeing this jogged my memory that I played the demo during a Steam Next Fest a while back (maybe early this year? Late last year?). I don't actually remember much of the gameplay, though, I guess it didn't grab my attention. Maybe I'll take another look now.

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Nice, I'll have to donate. When I got into video editing back in 2017 Kdenlive was the only editor I could find with the right level of features, and I've used it quite a bit since.

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That looks incredibly useful! Now, er, for those of us who've never set up a collection before, maybe a quick step-by-step would be nice? :whistle:

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Oh, wow, I never realized there was a button to hide the UI! That's great for screenshots. :smile:

I saw that announcement, and it's great to see that it's been so popular. Hopefully that means they'll have plenty of time and support to work on the things in the roadmap and add new features. I wouldn't mind a little more crop variety, right it's pretty much "beets in mountains" → "corn and cactus in deserts" → "corn (and tomatoes? I haven't unlocked them yet) in jungle", plus wheat on the side. The way plants grow differently (or die) at different temperatures would pretty easily allow a few more crops in there that could still be functionally distinct from each other.

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For me, Steam reviews have been something close to gospel.

Interesting. For me, I barely pay attention to them. That's not to say I pay no attention to them, but I generally put a lot more stock in going and looking up footage of a game I'm potentially interested in, and I generally only check for a negative rating if I'm already feeling turned off by a game. Five minutes of watching someone play can say a lot more about whether I'll personally enjoy a game than a few dozen poorly-spelled one-sentence reviews from people I don't know. I have found individual longer reviews (both positive and negative) helpful in the past, but there are plenty of games I've bought where I didn't bother reading any reviews beforehand, based on information I got about them elsewhere.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyCBD? Isn't that some kind of cannabis thing?

Quoting: denyasisCentral Business District, I presume. That's what some places refer to as their downtowns.

Yeah, I first heard the acronym during the four years I spent in Melbourne from 2017-2021*. Then I moved back the US and started hearing people talking about "CBD oil" and I was like "Huh? You need special oil for your downtown?" :huh:

*The Melbourne CBD [External Link] is a very defined (mostly) square bit at the heart of the city with a number of pedestrian-only or low-traffic roads. Also the home of the dreaded Tram Hook Turn [External Link] where you have to start a right turn by first moving left. :grin:

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Pedestrian-only roads? Hmm, I could try replicating the Melbourne CBD now…

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Tried the demo whenever that was was (early this year?) and loved it, going to pick it up now that it's out. :happy:

Quoting: denyasisOn the spectrum of say Stardew Valley to RimWorld, one being more about managing relationships and the later being more into the simulation side of a whole colony, where would you put The Wandering Village?

Mostly asking as my partner prefers the former (Stardew valley, spirit Farer, etc). I get the impression it's more colony management for the village with managing a relationship with Onbu or am I off mark?

Definitely more like RimWorld, though it doesn't have the same depth of people simulation. Your villagers are pretty fungible, able to swap jobs instantly without building up skill in a particular area. (At least, it was like that in the demo, though from a little footage I've seen I don't think they've suddenly added a per-unit skill system.) The relationship with Onbu can be fairly touching, but you're not going to be having Stardew Valle-style conversations or anything (it doesn't talk, after all). It's quite a fun little game, it's just not as deep as various other similar games.

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