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[lordcooper]

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What are everyones first impressions?

[FunctionZero]

Updates 4 & 5 have been posted on the Kickstarter page and the Alpha is coming out...today!


EDIT: aaaaand it's out!

for backers only

_{^{oh damnit why did my Visa have to be empty at the time?}}

[Aklyon]

Woo!

[Meta]

The beta alpha works like a charm. It's quite bare but looks promising. The graphics are good-looking.

You can dig using the left-click and you can build using the right-click and WASD, especially W and S which makes the cursor go closer or farther (the cursor is invisible if underground). You can also "paint" the stone in bricks or purple bricks (?) using O and P when looking at them.

You can go fullscreen but you need to modify the setup.txt in the game folder.

Ninja edit: Oh yes, it's an alpha. *corrects*

[Aklyon]

You mean the alpha.

You can make the cursor closer? thats useful.
Anyway, I made a stone pretzel.
How you pick up the stuff is a bit odd, though. It seems like I'd pick up a bunch for each hit, but I never get more than 4 or so unless I'm moving as soon as I dig forward.

[lordcooper]

It's little more than a tech demo at present, but I'm liking it so far.  Runs very smoothly and the graphics are pretty nifty.

It really does need a crosshair for digging though.  It can be a little tough to see where you are aiming at times.

[Xinvoker]

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What are everyones first impressions?

My first impression is that I suck at building anything other than dirt piles and those tentacle things in the trailer
You have a pickaxe to dig, but it feels more like you are digging with *your face* because you have to be so close, and these smoke sprites pop out.
I keep pressing space to jump, but there's no jumping, and you can't easily see what slopes you can or can't climb.

This sounded a bit negative, but they are my honest first impressions. It's an alpha and I trust all these will be improved in the future.

Tips:
1) Open SETUP.txt and change the resolution to something bigger. Setting Cartoon lines = false looks better to me too, but that's subjective.
2) To build, first dig to gather materials, select the material with 1,2,3,etc. Then hold right click and a red sphere will appear, left click to place dirt there. Moving the mouse will move the sphere up and down, left or right. To move it towards the camera or away from it, use W and S. (If you suck at this too it will make me feel better). EDIT: I got better at it, place the sphere exactly where you want and click 1 one time instead of holding the button down.
3) Like Meta said, you can paint rock with grey bricks (undiggable) or purple bricks (diggable) with O & P.
4) R restarts your position in case you get stuck. It happens sometimes with thin walls.

Enjoy landscaping!

[lordcooper]

Random thought:  I hope the dev allows standard polygons too.  Being able to use polygons for buildings and metavoxels for the landscape would be pretty darn cool.

[Rift]

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Yea as expected is kinda hard to make things that look good with this control scheme..

But still, interesting little thing

[Sean Mirrsen]

This game needs jumping. Seriously. It's like Doom, except the floors and walls are anything but straight, there are no weapons and no enemies, and instead of swisscheesing demons you're swisscheesing terrain.

[lordcooper]

This game needs jumping. Seriously. It's like Doom, except the floors and walls are anything but straight, there are no weapons and no enemies, and instead of swisscheesing demons you're swisscheesing terrain.

Why did you have to link me to TVtropes?  I have things to do, and they were gonna get done.

[Aklyon]

This game needs jumping. Seriously. It's like Doom, except the floors and walls are anything but straight, there are no weapons and no enemies, and instead of swisscheesing demons you're swisscheesing terrain.

Why did you have to link me to TVtropes?  I have things to do, and they were gonna get done.

Seen that one already, I think.

[Cyahnidde]

I wanted to make a dragon statue(which failed) out of stone before I found stone, so I used dirt.

[Aklyon]

Looks like claws.

[Rex_Nex]

This game needs jumping. Seriously. It's like Doom, except the floors and walls are anything but straight, there are no weapons and no enemies, and instead of swisscheesing demons you're swisscheesing terrain.

Why did you have to link me to TVtropes?  I have things to do, and they were gonna get done.

Haha, TV tropes isn't even that addic

Someone help me.