Calista complex rimworld reddit8/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Which relates to a thing that Gunpoint developer (and friend) Tom Francis wrote about recently, on what to do if your prototype isn't fun: It's hard to look at something like that and know if it's fundamentally awesome or not - whether, if it were polished, it would be really fun." All the art was just gray boxes and shapes. Sylvester touched on the same topic again in a later question from davetheallthing, who asked about how he evaluated those prototypes:īecause the games were really junky. I made a Smash TV-with-warlocks game, a zombie RPG roguelike, a mercenary management game, a mercenary tactics game, a starship building and management game, and then finally put the starship on the ground and that become RimWorld." It just means that which basic notion of what game you make is incredibly important in its success - all the polish and marketing and art and design tuning can be wasted if it's done on a core concept that's over-used or just doesn't work that well.īefore RimWorld was RimWorld, just after I left Irrational and started Ludeon, I knew I had to prototype some games to figure out what my game was going to be. ![]() I really think that the fate of games is heavily multiplied by just how effective and how much people want their core mechanic. "Figuring out that I should be making a sci-fi colony sim. I was particularly interested to read about the decision-making process that happened before work on RimWorld began, in response to a question from user hallajs about the "biggest challenge on the development of Rimworld." Its creator Tynan Sylvester popped up on Reddit yesterday for an Ask Me Anything post and I've been enjoying browsing the answers this morning. And not without cause either, as Brendan's recent look at the game suggests its producing Dwarf Fortress-style anecdotes. Scifi colony sim RimWorld arrived on Steam last week and has done quite well for itself, if the Steam Charts are to be believed. ![]()
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