The very presence of seashells makes this my favorite progress update yet (well, next to the musical ensembles). I can't wait to see how all of these little things mesh together into one big and awesome game.
Smashy smashy. I love smashing random items and being rewarded with powerups. It's one of the staple of all video games ever.
To be honest, I'd suggest slowing down with the hats. TF2 made them quite popular as kind of additionala chievement stuff, but on their own they weren't overly interesting - and following that trend won't do anything good. Putting all that effort into more breakables and generally interactional environment would be far, far better.
I'm actually pretty happy with this. I would make a guess, based off of those images, that there would be planets with no vases and such so you would get more of a "I'm the first sentient being on this planet," feel.
So Avian, Glitch and Human worlds share the same breakable; pots? Oh well. I guess you can always look chests or tents or.. whatever. Also I have an idea for a breakable: Skeleton corpses! Cool right? I love breaking them skeleton corpses.
George, the wife and I *love* the little sea shells. I'm going to find a sea shell hat and then run around like a giant enemy crab boss. Well, not really, but it's fun to think about, anyway. You are a talented lot of bit artists and programmers. I'm glad you ladies and gents are having such a grand time working on this game, though I reckon it will feel mighty nice to have it finished so you can take a breath and relax. Suffice it to say we all look forward to smashing and destroying all of your breakables. Interactive environments are so fun! I seem to remember that part of the appeal of the game "Mercenaries" was that you could blow up just about everything in the game.
WOW HOW GROWN UP AND MATURE OF YOU TO DO THAT!!!!!111ONEONE I bet George meant to mention the beta release in his update and just was a knucklehead and forgot about it. Good thing your post is here to selflessly remind him. I'm sure he'll get right on that for you. Seriously, the people whining every day that there is no beta should be given special beta keys when the beta DOES come out. Those beta keys should be for an earlier version of Starbound that doesn't have any quests, any environmental interactivity, any game mechanics, any craftables, or anything that makes a game a GAME. What you children are doing is the equivalent of watching mommy bake you a cake, and tugging on her apron strings every 30 seconds demanding to have the cake. It's still flour, salt, and eggs. It would taste TERRIBLE if she gave you a bite right now. Mom wants to make sure you enjoy your delicious cake, so she's going to ignore you or tell you to hush until the cake is baked, iced, and ready to be OM NOM NOM'd. So stop asking. The mods know that they have 20million people waiting for beta to drop, and they're not going to bork the game and release it before it's a finished product because you were rude on the forums. /rage Also: in b4 "y so srs?" Edit: I've thought about nuking this post since it was me being upset with someone. But then I realized Mollygos and other devs have to slog through these comments. I don't want their eyes to get permanently stuck in a rolling-position, because then they won't be able to work on the game, and that would suck.
