Stardew Valley creator confirms he's made "a ton of progress" on update 1.6

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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That guy is amazing

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  • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It blows my mind every time I see Stardew Valley. Singlehandedly wrote the story, characters, the music, effects, coded the game etc. Simply stunning.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure, but the storage chest was a poor example.

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• superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indie devs:

  So many people are still playing it, and many new people every day, I want it to be the best it can be

  It will never be perfect, but I feel an urge to keep improving it. Up to this point, it’s been my life’s work, and I care a lot about it.

  AAA companies:

  So many people are still playing because exploiting poor impulse control and FOMO are at the core of game design philosophy. We want it to be the most profitable it can be

  It will never be enjoyable, but we will make sure people feel the urge to keep logging in to grind their dailies so their purchase of a battle pass can be justified. Ever since we started allowing pre-orders it was already profitable, and we stopped caring about quality.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Indie devs: suddenly I’m a millionaire thanks to this one-hit-wonder game that I spent 6 years making. I think I’ll keep updating it so people keep buying it. AAA companies: We need to pay 400 people over a course of 2 years. 30 million is less than 10% of the budget

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    • tb_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      AAA companies:
      We made record profits!

      Also AAA companies: We’re laying off a substantial portion of our team.

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  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the mandatory apology JPEG on Xitter.

    We have done our utmost to make the enjoyable experience more accessible to average user. This has in turn resulted in sub-par experience for some. As we constantly try to improve quality of our products and this was a valuable lesson from which we plan to grow into more responsible company that caters to people’s needs.

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    • Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is repeated every 3 years when there’s some kind of outrage

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  • NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “and we stopped caring about quality” good god that feels so true, it hurts

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• Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminds me of Terraria where they claim a final update, but they just can’t stop adding new things. I love devs with this kind of passion.

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  • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where’s the best place to catch up on the updates, haven’t read anything since the multiplayer update.

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    • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just look at the update history on steam. I don’t necessarily go to other websites. Every update has been minor, but I still consider it. Maybe they just meant no more major updates, but even still, it’s impressive they have kept maintaining that game for over 10 years.

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• TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  wait theres gonna be another update? i thought 1.5 was final

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  • KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1.6 has been worked on for a while. Small content update but is going to make modding easier or more robust. 🤞

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    • Cozy@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looks like it’s gonna be one of the biggest updates so far. With new festivals, new dialogue options and so on.

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    • TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i havent really been following the sv community for a while, but thats nice

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  • yurgenst@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He must have talked to the Terraria devs haha

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  • philycheezestake@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He changed his mind

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      for the 10th time

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    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pray he does not change it again.

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• Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I finally just started playing. I’m 50 hours in and nowhere near done with it. Don’t tell me there’s more coming!

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  • aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is probably even more comming in the current version for you. Stardew valley is the type of game where you watch a random YT video where someone shows off something and you never knew was in the game, after you got 1000h clocked.

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• llamapants@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t deserve him. Thank you, Mr. Barone for all you have given us and more.

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• NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i should try stardew valley tbh, it looks really good

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  • Rudgrcom@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should!

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    • NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i may consider buying it lol

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• FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s pretty great. ConcernedApe is a prince!

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• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still no news about haunted chocolatier?

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  • dom@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s one dude.

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For now.

      But once my clones are complete…

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  • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would not be the first time that a second game from one successful developer will never come to life. I wish that I am wrong.

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    • BellaDonna@mujico.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I too think he went back to Stardew Valley because he’s either burnt out, or doesn’t know where to take, Haunted Chocolatier.

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• XbSuper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Really wish I had it in me to replay this game.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    May I suggest Stardew Valley Expanded?

    Its a huge mod that basically ads a whole new entire game worth of content, on top of the base games content, that is seamlessly integrated into the base game.

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    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      May I suggest Longevity?

      It adds taxes and market prices, thus bringing an element of complexity into the game that makes you think how to optimize your early growth and how to get the most out of your energy and money, turning the relaxing indie game about returning to nature into an optimization grindset nightmare that everyone but me hates.

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      New maps? I found that I always gravitated towards one map as I disliked all the rest. Mostly just wanted a big open space to go crazy, not obstacles that I had to design around.

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    • XbSuper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re making it worse, not better lol. There’s too much to do, that’s why I’m not returning, adding more is not the solution.

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  • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    replay? you mean you finished it? Isn’t it open ended?

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    • XbSuper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Technically yes, but at a certain point all you’re doing is tending your crops, which gets boring when you have nothing more to work towards.

      Now there’s more to do, but since I did so much, I’m just burned out on the game, and can’t get back into it.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gonna throw a bit of advertising about Dinkum, for anyone that’d like to see a mix of Stardew (farming, tending to animals, socializing with people) with Animal Crossing (you set up where shops and houses will be, you can terraform the whole place, lots of shinies around the land to be dug up)

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I couldn’t get into Dinkum. The early game is really poorly paced and a bit janky. Ended up deleting it after an hour. Could be one I come back to once it’s optimised a bit more but I wouldn’t really compare it positively with Stardew at the moment

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• mrbaby@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish i could transfer my save file from my switch to my steam deck. I have the oled switch and i guess i need to mod chip it in order to access the file system.

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