Quoting: GuestMildly interested, but the graphics are so bad it even outdoes minecraft.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPI see no bad graphcis here. Just a stylized art style, on purpose.

Quoting: saturnoyoMmm I think there is a little bit of A and a little bit of B.

Hello there! Jamie of Sludj Games here, the developer behind Wrongworld. You're actually all kind of right about the graphics: My intention was definitely to give Wrongworld a unique, stylised, almost-N64-era art style, partially because I wanted it to look different from everything else that was coming out, and partially because I'm simply not a talented enough artist to make everything beautiful! But I completely agree that some of the art style misses the mark, and it isn't as consistent as I'd like. However, I'm only one man, and developing Wrongworld has been a big learning experience, with some of my skills improving over time, which in turn has definitely led to some aspects of the graphics being left behind a little. I would love to go back over all the graphics and 3D models, and improve an awful lot of them, but time is my enemy. So many things to do, and never enough time to do them all. In general, I try to focus my time on the things that I think will add the most fun to the game, and sometimes, purely due to lack of time, that has to come at the expense of art or sound design.

I've always been a big believer in the Nintendo philosophy that the primary aim of games should be fun, and amazing graphics, while obviously a lovely thing to gaze in amazement at, don't necessarily add to that fun factor. And, for me at least, they eat up a huge amount of time to work on; time I generally feel would be better spent expanding the game in other ways. I do completely understand that the art in Wrongworld will probably repulse some people, but until I figure out how to clone myself, invent a time machine, or find enough cash to hire someone more talented than me, I probably just have to accept that fact :)

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Quoting: GuestI don’t know what the issue is but for the first video I only have sound (mpv doesn’t even open a window), and the second one has no sound. (Using youtube-dl + mpv.)

That's weird. Still struggling to get it to work?

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Hi, all. And thanks for the update article, Liam :) I'm still blown away by the level of support the game got on Greenlight. I mean, I had a feeling it would do okay, but I'm also pretty darn biased - it's so hard to remain objective about something you've worked on for so long in isolation. I wasn't prepared for thousands of people to give it the thumbs-up in a matter of days and push it straight into the top 100 on Greenlight, out of more than 2000 games on there. I think it peaked at about #20. I was dragging my jaw around for a few days :)

Anyway, just wanted to drop in again and say thanks once more. A huge part of the success on Greenlight is down to the support shown by websites and communities like this one. And, damn, you've gotta love the Linux community. I bet you think I say that to all the girls, but seriously, the Linux community is amazing! So supportive.

Now, time to get back to work and repay everyone for their faith in the project.

Cheers, guys!

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Wrongworld has sneaked its way into the Top 100 on Greenlight this morning, and that's down to articles like this and all the amazing support from fantastic people such as yourselves. Truly, truly grateful. Thank you all so much :)

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Thank you all so much for the support. It really is massively appreciated.

Looks very fun. I hope it will come out on GOG too!

Yep, I'm definitely aiming for a GOG release too. I was actually talking to them about it just yesterday :)

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Quoting: PicoboomBrilliant. I'm off to upvote it on Steam Greenlight right now. Multi-player pvp be damned, but I would love to see a online PvE co-op so I can share the laughs real time with a friend or two! Great find Liam!

I do hope to have some form of local co-op mode in there before launch - tests have already been carried out on that front - and I'd love to turn that into an online thing at some point. Time is my enemy, but watch this space :)

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It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to see people liking the look of Wrongworld, even if the eyes do unsettle people a little bit :)

Thank you all so much for the support. It really is massively appreciated.

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