The future of Chucklefish and Starbound

god i hate their patch notes.

 

What should they do, they don't have a own place for their games like a Forum... wait...

 

i was commenting on the vagueness.

if i may venture into hyperbole for a moment: they might as well make every patch's notes read "changed some stuff".

 

Give that man a cookie

 

(not reading all the 600+ messages, but here's couple of lines from me)

• I'm not so worried about the tier progression. It's nice there is some, yes, but I'm mostly a sandbox player, so I'm most interested in the ecosystem, environment and civilization development on the planets. I love much of the stuff I've already read about the planet's different systems actually reacting to the things the players do and there will never be too much of that for me. Adding such content will keep me very happy while experimenting on what consequences my actions have on the planet.
  
• I was a fan of Sim Earth and Sim Life, maybe the animals could carry some kind of genome and evolve a bit according to how they survive on the environments? Drastic stuff would be hard to control, though, but something simple that we could also see when looking at the bugger's stats with the magnifying glass or something.
• Also, this is a time of mobile games, so how about a mini-game for phones (not perhaps an action games, but a kind of turn- or character-based "strategic" one), which would be related to your character/characters, which could be played on it's own, but if connected with the Starbound desktop game, there would be some changes to both directions based on what you have done on the other game? I think this would nicely build up some commitment to the character and in fact boost both of the games.

I guess these were just random non-interconnected points, but there you have it, sorry

 

Ohh, I thought you mean the way they use an external page to post their patchnotes and twitter this page instead of some link to a threat in their Forum.

 

welcome to the forums.

i highly suggest reading all 600+ messages, but feel free to skip some of the silly arguments.

 

just like all the daily updates before the beta. yader yader, bug fix bug fix, pic of sumthing. finish with moily saying te-he

 

The game is wonderful, these updates sound like there just simply adding awsome sauce too it!! Can't have too much awsome sauce!! Although trying to setup a private server is a pain all the port forwarding and stuff.

 

i can understand vagueness before a beta release, but afterwards..... that's just unprofessional.

 

thanks for all your hard work Chucklefish! keep it up!

 

but there indie dev's how dear you expect professional standards from them after all there making the game for you aut of the goodes of their hearts and in know why whatsoever for the cold hard cash which is allowing tiy to set up a publishing empire before he finished his first game. how dare you hold them accountable for the promises they have given. you should be grateful that they have shared their genius with us.

 

i know. even i am disgusted by my attitude of entitlement =\

 

They could do like blizzard does with Diablo. It says when next update will come, and how long it takes for the update to be completed

 

I'm a little concerned about the described pixel progression system, and the fact that "tiers" will still exist.

Will the tiers remain linear, or will we be able to progress horizontally? Will I be forced to get the first tier item in order to unlock the next tier or can i unlock 1 of several tier 2 tiers right out of tier 1, and combine multiple of different tier 2 unlocks to unlock a particular tier 3, and then combine multiple tier 3 unlocks to unlock tier 4? Unlocking of course being through a natural progression rather than pideonholing my character through a specific gate each time?

 

Is this FAKE NEWS? or is this real?
Source: http://pastebin.com/2seeXPTH

*Update to allow us to add new biomes and make changes to worlds without the possibility of the player losing their world. There will likely be one more world wipe some time in the future when we finalize the universe layout. This won't include a character wipe though and you can still backup your worlds.

1. *A ton of work has gone into our patching system. After this update we'll be able to push content updates as and when they're completed, rather than wait for big engine updates to be completed. Updates after this patch will come at a near daily rate.
2. 
   
3. Additional goodies:
4. 
   
5. Valentines day items including swords, costumes, decorations, bow, etc
6. New (actually sounds good!) microphone instrument
7. Engine feature, tech can now be granted by armors
8. Server stability fixes with many players
9. new death animations
10. Engine feature, all objects are now scriptable and interactable
11. More avian weaponry
12. Projectile changes
13. dogs can now be captured (lots more pets coming soon)
14. A bunch of new items and smaller pieces of content
15. 
    
16. Additional content has been created (new biomes, etc) but will come out just after this patch, as it needs to be adapted to the new content update system.

 

real, copypaste from twitter.

 

Okay, cool, but why didn't they write it here instead? maybe I should use Twitter then.

 

for some reason they mainly lurk here, rarely post things. if they hold true to past examples, expect the patch notes on the frontpage in 2-3 days after the time the patch is pushed through steam.

 

If I made a game I would at least hire an forum admin to Watch everyday on the forums to answer questions and update patchnews or maybe write how things are with the development team what they doing and how far they have come that would be greater then knowing nothing

..and there is not many who actually using Twitter unless they are born in America or England, but in the other countries twitter is rarely used. I don't know about Russia or those countries though but they probs using Twitter.