A Mad Week, Deadline coping Plans.

Sorry, been working very long days at the moment and haven't had time for community things.

ReactorCore: Wordy reply inbound that should clarify our philosophy.

Both Michal and I are actually interested in much faster turnaround from start to finish on games. The focus with our new engine (where nothing is hardcoded, everything is networked and editing ingame online is possible) is improving iteration time and content re-use.

We'd like to get it to the point where we can make an entire game with this engine in a month (considering I've done several weekend-long game jams with working prototypes, this hardly seems that ambitious) that we could sell for 2-5 dollars yours-to-keep, and then once the next one was done actually release all of the object code for the previous game so that modding can take on a whole new level - that way the community would keep the games that they liked afloat with free mod content for all, and the ones that are less popular can happily sink, without the community feeling like they've lost out. Content from those less popular games could also be used in mods for other games, since they'd all be working in the same engine, which allows us and the community to salvage any gems in the rough.

With low prices and low turn around time, there's no "premium" benefits or anything like that, no pay to win (my personal least favourite business model), and a very low barrier of entry for everyone. We're considering the possibility of having a per-year subscription thing (get every game made by us in a year) but wouldn't like to do that until we had a gauge on what sort of speed was realistic.

Basically, we want to be free to build games without the commitment of 2 years of development time. We want to be free to experiment and innovate without having to spend ages fighting our own aging technology. And we don't want to charge the world for it. Money is a secondary motive - we just need to make enough to stay alive to keep making games.

As such, no hat store ;)



Re: Ropes - Yeah, bungee jumping and swinging is a thing, obstacle rope courses are excellent fun. Climbing up ropes actually isn't supported at the moment, but very likely will be once other pressing stuff is done with. Suspending multiple tiles from ropes currently isn't supported :P flying castles isn't a good idea due to bandwidth and physics computation constraints.

 

The server can be downloaded for free.

 

Servers are free. Run dedicatedserver.bat if you're on windows.
I have no idea why people think hosting costs money other than for server rental. There'd be approximately 5 servers if it cost money to host.

 

Ladies, please. Surely this isn't the place to vent your frustration; maybe take it to the General Discussion, ladies?

 

Plans for changing knight combat: None in classic most likely, in full shield bashing w/ jumping will likely be replaced with an animated push foward on the ground if you LMB while shielding after a discussion with quite a few testers last night - will likely be easier and better than trying to debug the current (tricky to understand as a newbie and ultimately annoying to try to balance) shield bash technique. We also might increase the visual range and will very likely make shots actually aimed to reduce the issues with safety around corners and hitting 6 guys at once with a slash, haha.

GloriousToast: Pretty sure I've provided that as an example of what ropes are good for before ;) works like a charm, though at the moment in dev version you cant force-attach ropes yet so they have to be manually holding it :P