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by littlestymaar 725 days ago
I dont know who Ralph Koster is or why this announcement deserves the front page, but I have to say the art direction is surprisingly dull: there are plenty of indie games made with just free asset packs that have more personality than this…
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meheleventyone 725 days ago
Raph is a prominent game designer, one of the designers of Ultima Online and writes a lot about game design. This is interesting at least because people have high hopes that he will build another good systemic sandbox MMO.

I agree though that this looks surprisingly dull and also that the trailer doesn’t do a great job selling the systems side of things either.

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cobertos 725 days ago
Is there a better resource that talks about the systems side of things? It looks like there might be something interesting there but it's too opaque to figure out what that might be

The things I could tease out:

* Fully modifiable worlds

* "living worlds", or at least grass grows and other ecosystem-y things

* No partitioning of player base, all in same realm

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hooby 723 days ago
The Discord is currently the probably best place with the most information...

https://discord.gg/starsreach

Check "A brief, subjective history..." in "community-forum", for a rough summary of what is known so far.

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yett 725 days ago
He did a Q&A on MMORPG subreddit "creator of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies"

https://old.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/1dqodoo/im_raph_kos...

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smusamashah 725 days ago
The lighting, textures on the characters has a weird feel and lighting on them.
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hooby 723 days ago
Yeah it does - but it is early work in progress, and is gonna see several more passes before getting close to release.

According to Raph the goal is for the visuals to end up somewhere between Genshin Impact and Wind Waker. Roughly.

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ergonaught 725 days ago
"I don't know why this deserves the front page"

When you catch yourself writing that, just go ahead and delete it.

Eventually, you'll prevent yourself from even thinking it in the first place.

Life will improve.

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hooby 723 days ago
This game is definitely gonna be known for it's systems, mechanics and simulation, and not for it's graphics - that much is sure.
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