Starmancer

JStheguy · Post by **JStheguy** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:18 am #382262

So yeah, some guys are making a crowd-funded sci-fi space survival colony sim with a retro look.
I don't even care that all of those things sound like this is going to end up being worse than sliced plauge, because it is fucking gorgeous.

Here's a link to the screenshots page of their website: https://www.playstarmancer.com/media
They've also got a glorified digital lego set available on their Kickstarter page as a free public demo: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14 ... starmancer
Now let's all gawk at the glorious pseudo-32 bit texturework discuss how we think the game might turn out and show off our massive steel spess dongs stations.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:23 am #382263

tbh I plan on recreating Paranoia and as many of the "levels" of crew as possible: The black uniformed plebians and the white-uniformed elites, red "troubleshooters" and so on.

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:38 am #382267

This is looking pretty good. I hope it succeeds and doesn't collapse in the Steam early-access void.

UltimateGamer21 · Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:21 am

There is a very small chance this game is ever released.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:39 pm #382357

ill believe it when i see it

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:57 pm #382432

Okay, where's the windows and how do I rotate shit?

JStheguy · Post by **JStheguy** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:47 pm #382540

DemonFiren wrote:Okay, where's the windows and how do I rotate shit?

Windows are just a wall paint and rotating is done with middle mouse.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 11:51 pm #382544

Yeah, I figured that out.
Seems you can't save this shit and half the fun stuff is missing, but at least heaters make decent consoles and I tried to build a spessship.

Then suddenly a guy spawned and died right away.

JStheguy · Post by **JStheguy** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:03 am #382593

DemonFiren wrote:Yeah, I figured that out.
Seems you can't save this shit and half the fun stuff is missing, but at least heaters make decent consoles and I tried to build a spessship.

Then suddenly a guy spawned and died right away.

Yeah, it's pretty goddamn lame that you can't save your work, but at least you can build pretty looking autism forts:

Still wish you could save the damn things, hopefully they'll add that in for the colonist demo they promised in the instructions.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:06 am #382594

Wire that shit up, man.

Also, how'd you get the orange floors? I couldn't seem to find anything like that.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:00 am #382626

At least its pretty?

JStheguy · Post by **JStheguy** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:42 am #382659

DemonFiren wrote:Wire that shit up, man.

Also, how'd you get the orange floors? I couldn't seem to find anything like that.

It's the dark mesh floor, both of the mesh floors can have their color be changed with I think left shift, like a lot of furniture and wall textures.
Also I did wire that shit up, if it wasn't the farming area and the pop-up turrets would be going WAAAH I NEED ELECTRICITY WAAAAAAAH

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 9:07 am #382664

Sounds like the Spacebase scam.
Is this one actually released as full game?
If not, I'll assume it to be a scam until proven otherwise

Incomptinence · Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:50 am

Is this doom and gloom coming from anywhere other than healthy scepticism of kickstarter funded games and ea in general?

Is there actual evidence of them being scammers?

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:30 pm #382707

Incomptinence wrote:Is this doom and gloom coming from anywhere other than healthy scepticism of kickstarter funded games and ea in general?

Is there actual evidence of them being scammers?

It sounds more like the close proximity to one of 90 SS13 remakes that have all gone dark over the last so many years. If your game even whiffs of SS13 people will presume you're scamming until proven otherwise.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:04 pm #382715

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a dev to deliver a game before you praise them

XSI · Post by **XSI** » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:32 am #383070

Mainly just being sceptical

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Sat Mar 10, 2018 1:26 pm #389095

Gimme an update.
The graphics are fucking GORGEOUS, I love it.
Game itself sounds cool too but holy shit I love the art style, I wish I could do that.

JStheguy · Post by **JStheguy** » Sat Mar 10, 2018 5:21 pm #389120

They released another demo, this one's got colonists in it but they explode after a couple of in game days.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Mar 10, 2018 6:45 pm #389143

So they've already emulated SS13 perfectly.
Debug and ship it.

Qbopper · Post by **Qbopper** » Sat Mar 10, 2018 7:25 pm #389159

what's up with the flora there, those are stardew valley sprites

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Sat Mar 10, 2018 7:51 pm #389164

Qbopper wrote:what's up with the flora there, those are stardew valley sprites

That’s why they seemed familiar.

Post by **Togopal** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:25 am #389318

Chucklefish is going to be their publisher

Kraso · Post by **Kraso** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:32 am #389324

Togopal wrote:Chucklefish is going to be their publisher

they haven't had the grace to finish their game and they want to publish a videogame already

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:40 am #389326

well, that's how chucklefish works, kraso

Post by **MMMiracles** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:14 am #389349

Kraso wrote:
Togopal wrote:Chucklefish is going to be their publisher
they haven't had the grace to finish their game and they want to publish a videogame already

They already published a game, Stardew Valley.

Incomptinence · Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:19 am

And risk of rain.

technically a better publisher than developer at this point.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:10 am #389433

i think everyone's misinterpreting kraso insofar as that he probably meant "the starmancer devs aren't even finished and they wanna find a publisher already"
i was just making a joke because screw chucklefuck

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:56 am #391754

chucklefish goes back to their roots, releasing unfinished games

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:58 am #391756

we've thought up a concept for our next game.
time to put it in early access.

lntigracy · Post by **lntigracy** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:52 pm #391768

Neat.

Kraso · Post by **Kraso** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:37 pm #391782

Bluespace wrote:we've thought up a concept for our next game.
time to put it in early access.

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Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:02 am #393823

Oh, Chucklefish is publishing? nevermind, abandon this ship before it hits the seafloor

lntigracy · Post by **lntigracy** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:19 pm #393922

They published stardew valley and that came out decently.

iamgoofball · Post by **iamgoofball** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 4:44 pm #393941

Xhuis wrote:Oh, Chucklefish is publishing? nevermind, abandon this ship before it hits the seafloor

They're perfectly fine publishers. Developers, ehhhhh

aradsten · Post by **aradsten** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:05 pm #423572

Ss14 confirmed?

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 10:31 pm #423633

>Chucklefuck involved

HHHHEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWHEEEEEEEEEEEEE

JStheguy · Post by **JStheguy** » Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:28 am #423781

Timbrewolf wrote:>Chucklefuck involved

HHHHEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWHEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Don't worry, they're just publishing, so the game should only be missing one or two major promised features at launch as opposed to literally every promised feature, major or minor.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:01 pm #423802

What did chuckle fuck do?
They didn't make space station df9 I hope

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:09 pm #423803

Malkevin wrote:What did chuckle fuck do?
They didn't make space station df9 I hope

The massive disaster that Starbound was. Luckily for as incompetent as they are at developing, they're okay at publishing. Stardew Valley and Risk of Rain are great, Wanderlust is okay I guess. Bunch of other things they push that i've not even heard of so I have no idea what the quality is like.

starmute · Post by **starmute** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:31 am #424486

I'll wait till it's on steam or whatever. I don't like buying games that haven't been released.