Orv posted:

After the years of tragicomedy delivered by Starbound it's nice to see the idea being done by a bunch of not crazy people. Good luck goons.

Blacula posted:

Looks neat, will there be multiplayer?

Z-axis in a 2d sidescroller?

Then the big one: When will we be able to play it?

Galaxander posted:

Any plans for how ammunition is going to work? Specifically I guess I'm asking about how will the player get ammo, is running out of ammo/rationing ammo going to be a common concern, will a single weapon be able to utilize more than one ammo type or will type be tied to gun type (like in Nuclear Throne)?

Johnny Joestar posted:

please include a sidequest to get a lowtax npc a new robo-spine and give his old spine as a melee weapon when you complete it

Rhopunzel posted:

Nuclear Throne is right on the money. Currently there's about 6 "pools" of ammo that just sit in your inventory and whatever given weapon just draws from it and feeds it into a Soldat-style ammo/reloading counter. About the only distinction we haven't set in stone is whether bullets will be split into pistol and rifle ammo like in Death Road to Canada - that way we can make pistol ammo more ubiquitous (and rifle ammo more rare) so pistols can fill their own niche and have a practical use instead of having to be balanced to be on par with powerful long rifles.

I'm a gun nerd and grew up playing Jagged Alliance 2 but I understand no one wants to fuss with the inventory clutter of individual magazines and bullet calibers.

edit: forgot I didn't answer the first part of your question. It'll be difficult to hoard piles of ammo, but ideally it'll be balanced that you'll always have enough and only run out if you get careless. We want shooting and combat to punctuate gameplay rather than define it, so any event where you have to fire a weapon should be memorable. I could write an entire post about how I plan on designing combat but the short of it is this isn't a run and gun where everything's out to kill you and touch damage you to death the second you spawn.

Yashichi posted:

The art looks good and cohesive but the font in that screenshot is eye-searingly bad. Please reconsider the low-pixel text for the players' sakes

Rhopunzel posted:

Zereth posted:

Speaking of lighting, as a sci-fi game, are later alternatives to torches going to be something it's practical to use full-time? In starbound it was much easier to get the materials for torches in bulk even after you got access to other lighting options, which always felt a little off.

Rhopunzel posted:

They'll most likely expire and have to be replenished, which should indirectly encourage the player to find more modern and longer lasting means of illumination.

Rhopunzel posted:

Coal torches and such will mostly be decorative or for gimmicks (like if you really have to make your slave prison fit the mood). They'll most likely expire and have to be replenished, which should indirectly encourage the player to find more modern and longer lasting means of illumination.

Galaxander posted:

I hate to go to bat for Starbound on anything, but you can 3d print "cheap lights" on the go that are brighter than torches, only consume a few pixels to make, and are waterproof to boot. The mobile 3d printing stuff was kind of an odd side-thing and it doesn't surprise me at all if people didn't notice it. I think those lights were the only thing I ever used it for.

Zereth posted:

They weren't cheap enough that you could completely replace torches with them, though, given how little money enemies dropped. While you could knock over a couple trees and mine one of the dozens of coal deposits you passed while spelunking and make like fifty torches.

Elentor posted:

I've got a few chapters incoming in the next days, talking about gamedev. Don't worry, they'll have images



These cover a bit of noise, its history, how to approach 2D terrain, and how we're dealing and implementing these technologies.

Heartcatch posted:

Hello. How pretty will I be able to be in this game? Pretty princess dressup is very important to me. Second only to ultraviolence.

Rhopunzel posted:

2. Yes. Think entering buildings in RPGs. It'll spawn a little limited pocket surrounded by black that you can build within and enter/exit and spawn/despawn

Rhopunzel posted:

Expect about the same customisation as RimWorld. Definitely not to the level of Starbound, or at least that won't be a priority for a while.

Hairs, hats and skin colors are fairly trivial. Things like flowery alternate poses and millions of vanity clothes are not and I don't view them as a good return on investment until much later in development. It might be disappointing to some but it's work I'd much rather spend elsewhere at this point.

Icedude posted:

Seriously looking forward to this, the character art style reminds me a lot of Flashback.

The bit about "A focus on colonists" interests me. My biggest disappointment in both Terraria and Starbound was that your NPCs would just wander around randomly and never actually do anything. How in-depth are you expecting that to be? Probably nowhere near Oxygen Not Included levels of complexity obviously, but something like Dragon Quest Builders 2 where your NPCs will follow a rough schedule to make use of the rooms you build (but don't have actual 'needs' you need to fulfil) would be nice.

Cat Mattress posted:

So, is it limited to one extra Z-axis plane where you build all your "interiors", or can just stack them up by building a doorway in a black pocket leading to another black pocket where you can build another doorway and so on

OwlFancier posted:

A z layer is actually a really interesting feature, actually. Cos it'd let you give each building an interior and exterior quite neatly in a 2d environment.