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Author Topic: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?  (Read 158343 times)

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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #750 on: May 03, 2011, 09:24:26 pm »

Well we saw in the latest LP that hitting a background of wood cracked the wood, most likely destroying it with a little more time, as assuming that both wood and dirt walls have this same property, then we can tear down the underground dirt walls to build our underground towns.

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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #751 on: May 03, 2011, 09:27:04 pm »

Sadly Blue stated that underground and Dungeon backgrounds need to be pulled down from the top down.
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #752 on: May 03, 2011, 09:30:34 pm »

Apparently you can't build wooden platforms starting at the rock biome (it refuses to attach them to background.) I'm guessing that you can knock out walls in the first sub-layer, but not below that. They're ok with you building a home underground. I think they're not ok with people building a home adjacent to hell.
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #753 on: May 03, 2011, 09:31:36 pm »

I think they're not ok with people building a home adjacent to hell.

Well, no developer is perfect.
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #754 on: May 03, 2011, 09:36:42 pm »

Sadly Blue stated that underground and Dungeon backgrounds need to be pulled down from the top down.

Which is to say it's possible, and 50-60 people with hammers and pickaxes could get it done bloody quick. Assuming that wouldn't melt a server... or the player's rigs.

Apparently you can't build wooden platforms starting at the rock biome (it refuses to attach them to background.) I'm guessing that you can knock out walls in the first sub-layer, but not below that. They're ok with you building a home underground. I think they're not ok with people building a home adjacent to hell.

Yeah, part of me is sad, here. The other part realizes that's still a ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous, amount of space to build in. The entire first sub-layer, and everything above ground? Hell yes. I'd be incorporating the sky islands into the giant building that gets constructed.

Obviously, though, if we can't build a home adjacent to hell, we simply transplant hell to where our home is. The real trick is going to be leading fire imps and bone worms to the upper layers and then keeping them around. I wonder what happens once they lose aggro...
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #755 on: May 03, 2011, 09:39:30 pm »

I half expect that to change in the future, especially as more biomes go in.
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #756 on: May 03, 2011, 09:40:16 pm »

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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #757 on: May 03, 2011, 09:42:49 pm »

Freezing biome means freeze-ray or freeze-sword or something. That means bugger making houses out of ice. Make houses out of frozen cthulhu eyes!

Or maybe just frozen slimes or something. Weapon that turns critters into items? I could dig it. I'd feel like kirby with his cookpot. *idly ponders PvP cannibalism*
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #758 on: May 03, 2011, 09:43:49 pm »

Blue has already said the first new biome they are looking at will be snow. Snow blocks, probably ice blocks. Which kind of begs for weather, which I'm sure is on their list somewhere.

But don't worry. They know what we want.
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #759 on: May 03, 2011, 09:45:38 pm »

And what we want is to be able to play the game now. :V
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #760 on: May 03, 2011, 09:47:17 pm »

Well, it will kill you to know that in their opinion the game is done and ready to ship :P
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #761 on: May 03, 2011, 09:50:46 pm »

Well then, in the spirit of the style-

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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #763 on: May 03, 2011, 10:05:23 pm »

This looks interesting, but I wouldn't pay for it. Still looks horribly rough and proof of concepty. Sure it's a very nice concept and there is a lot of concept to be proven, but it really needs more polish.

Given that, I still think minecraft (with a healthy dose of modding) does this idea better. 2d is just too limiting.
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Re: Terraria... Looks like Minecraft + Metroid?
« Reply #764 on: May 03, 2011, 10:10:12 pm »

2d isn't a limit, it is a design choice. Some things work better in 2d, others worse. platformers and side scrollers has their own unique challengers that 3d games do not, so if you insist on seeing this as a flat minecraft clone (Something is is not) then at least take solice in the fact that you know those zombies you could just run around before and never worry about in minecraft? Well your going to have to face them here, because they will surround you.
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