[Big Edit] Game has now released!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363900/Farworld_Pioneers/Farworld Pioneers is an upcoming colony sim by Igloosoft inspired by Rimworld and Terraria (and maybe a little bit of Starbound).
Also, I'm helping create it!
The game mixes the exploration elements found in 2d block building games along with npc and colony management found in colony sims.
Edit: new trailer and release date for May 30!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yambZmWBYYMIt also takes advantage of z-levels: depth areas inside buildings/structures in the world that players can enter and exit from. The plan is to use these for more complicated dungeons as well as ways for colonies to deal with special structures, among other things.
Lots of cool guns with a focus on gun gameplay.
Theres also a pretty neat research system thats setup to be easily modded in the future that works by a mystery->insight->research->discovery system, where you can find items in the world and research them to gain insights to unlock researches to unlock discoveries and maybe even more insights.
Insights themselves are also freeform, and any research does not care where it gets its insight from, and just getting an insight might also fully complete a research directly.
Colonists have their own stats and professions and gain profession levels, which can unlock special recipes.
We are also getting in space travel! The game plan with space travel is a bit different than Starbounds "home zone" type though as ship entities are things you actually build and fly around in.
The game might be a bit sealy too.
Theres also multiplayer support with ~32 players supported (unbound actually but thats a good number we will go with that).
Anyway, now that all thats done with, suppose theres a bit of game history to go over.
The basic gist though is: the CEO of Igloosoft is Rhopunzel, who worked on Starbound and Rimworld. Shenanigans happened and here we are now. The end? Theres a much bigger story but not really mine to tell.
My own blurb: I was a mod on Shores of Hazeron for awhile (to those that vaguely remember that), among other things, and that may have influenced some of the things I helped make here. Farworld Pioneers really caught my eye as a project that was aiming to be more than just a platformer with window dressing colonists. I'm hoping as we move forward I can help make it special in its own way.
Would be glad to hear peoples thoughts about it! Theres currently a demo available on Steam at
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363900/Farworld_Pioneers/for a bit longer, plus we have weekly playtests with signups on our discord at
https://discord.gg/Asntr8e(Twitter link at
https://twitter.com/FarworldPioneer for anyone that still uses that site, I've mostly moved to Mastodon myself personally)
P.S: its been awhile since I've posted on bay12 and I cant for the life of me figure out how to set a new avatar. I'm trying to use Imgur and add the link in the http:// box but every time i do it, it just blanks out. Is it a size thing maybe? Anyone have more info?