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[ventuswings]

Huh. Am I reading this wrong or no DRM-free for Humble Bundle? Guess I'll have to use GOG.

[BigD145]

Can someone confirm or deny that Stardew will boot without steam loaded?

[Ultimuh]

I have taken a quick look into the folder of the game, and it seems like most of the stuff is comprised of .xnb files.
Anyone here who knows what to do with these files?
I am asking because I would like to know how difficult it would be to mod this game.

[Glloyd]

Can someone confirm or deny that Stardew will boot without steam loaded?

Well you can get it on GoG if you don't want to deal with Steam.

[Mephisto]

I have taken a quick look into the folder of the game, and it seems like most of the stuff is comprised of .xnb files.
Anyone here who knows what to do with these files?
I am asking because I would like to know how difficult it would be to mod this game.

Looks like they're images used by XNA. Converters abound so you may be able to change sprites fairly easily.

[BigD145]

Can someone confirm or deny that Stardew will boot without steam loaded?

Well you can get it on GoG if you don't want to deal with Steam.

GOG doesn't always have the same versions or supports for things. We'll see if one or both get the same multiplayer when that happens.

[Mattk50]

How many of the starbound developers are working on this? I mainly want to know about the designers because i reaaally dont want a repeat of starbound situation.

Though this isn't early access which does ease worries.

[Sirus]

0. It's being published by Chucklefish, but as far as I know the only person behind Stardew Valley had nothing to do with Starbound.

[Gabeux]

Hopefully none of you are like a RL friend who got super mad at me because I asked him if he knew that the game had combat and unlocked recipes as you skilled up.
I had no idea about these things. I didn't check anything and just jumped in. I'll keep it spoiler free, and I think most things I'd like to say are all on the game description.

I believe I'm on the 6th day now. The Harvest Moon vibes are so strong. My farm name IS "Harvest Moon Farm", so..
I love it how everything is on a worst shape than Harvest Moon used to be (town damaged, broken buildings at farm, crappy tools).
First thing I did after exploring the UI, getting an initial familiarity with the map/town/NPCs was to carve some paths to the 3 exits of the farm. I also didn't know we could craft stuff, so I made a chest, spread some torches on my paths and damn. This is HM 2016, and I've already got Exhausted 3 times.

What's weird for me is that I used to play HM as a little kid who didn't know english. So I'd have to scan for words I knew in order to know what to do, but it was mostly bruteforce trial-and-error.
Child Gabeux: "Egg", "Lake", "Spirits"...throw an egg at the lake and OH MY GOD MY SCREEN WENT WHITE SORRY MOM.
Now I can just jump in and the first thing I think is "What crops has the highest profit ratio and where do I find OP stuff to sell?". I have to block these thoughts and just try to enjoy the game without the insane min-maxing, optimal-strategy my brain seems to like to hunt for when I get a new game. And that feels great.

I'm really enjoying it and the nostalgia is palpable. I'm also happy to know that some quality of life stuff is in, like being able to shift+click to move a whole stack of items and things like that.
I also like that there seems to be stuff (craftable or available for purchase) that can help you with the farm. Won't talk about it, though. 

The only thing I felt missing in my ~2 hour gameplay time is some tooltips. There are a skill or another that I'm not 100% sure how to level up, but it somehow did on its own.
And since most NPCs won't talk to you for the rest of the day after you're done talking to them, it'd be nice to have some tooltips when hovering the mouse on them to remind you of their name.

Anyways, there's still a ton of stuff I don't know, but if they implement multiplayer..it will be AWESOME!
I also hope the devs got expansions or DLCs planned, or even modding. The game 'feels' scalable/moddable, if ya know what I mean.
And I'm looking forward to see how livestock works. Hopefully there's some chicken chasing to be had.

But for now, if you enjoyed Harvest Moon or Rune Factory it feels like a must-have. The farm feels huge.

PS: Forgot to mention that there are 112 shirt options on the initial customization screen. Dang.

[Mattk50]

0. It's being published by Chucklefish, but as far as I know the only person behind Stardew Valley had nothing to do with Starbound.

I thought they mentioned some artists from starbound helping but there's nothing wrong with that either way.

After i have my fill of devil daggers and superhot (why are there so many of these good indy games in the last week) i'll definitely pick this up.

[SOLDIER First]

ptw

[SeriousConcentrate]

0. It's being published by Chucklefish, but as far as I know the only person behind Stardew Valley had nothing to do with Starbound.

I almost feel like this needs to be in the thread title. 'Stardew Valley: Not the same devs as Starbound'.

Anyway, I won't be able to play it until Monday at the very earliest because I've got three twelve hour workdays ahead of me, starting in an hour. Hopefully there's not too much spoilerish stuff in this thread. :X

[Akura]

Played through the intro and the first few steps outside my house, but I'm just going to say this from my first impression: worth it.

Now I can just jump in and the first thing I think is "What crops has the highest profit ratio and where do I find OP stuff to sell?". I have to block these thoughts and just try to enjoy the game without the insane min-maxing, optimal-strategy my brain seems to like to hunt for when I get a new game. And that feels great.

Yeah, I feel this is my major gripe with Harvest Moon. You have to min-max every minute of the game to "win". Probably why I never played much past the first year in HM: A Wonderful Life.

Oh, and if I remember correctly, it was the developer's intend for modding to be possible.

[Ozyton]

Personally I think anything that happens in the first in-game week isn't really a spoiler, because most people will stumble into it within an hour or two of gameplay anyways.
I will say that the inventory upgrade is 2500 gold (I think) and that's probably going to be my first goal.
I'm planning on doing farmwork in the morning, then go to town to try to talk to as many people as I can, then when it gets late go home and do more farm work until bed time. Most shops open at 9 and close at 17.

Now to figure out how long it takes to go from the farm to town and back =p

[BigD145]

Steam syncs saves and you can load Stardew without Steam running.