StarForge - Stress points when building

[Leosallespoli 338]

Yes, I've wanted something like this for a while, mainly for the naval ship building element.

There is a mod about shipbuilding.

[bsb23 303]

What i want out of it is not ships (although it is a plus) it is for the fact that it convert large groups of blocks into entities and have useable physics and finally the ability to edit the blocks. Not to mention the lack of lag.

[Leosallespoli 338]

What i want out of it is not ships (although it is a plus) it is for the fact that it convert large groups of blocks into entities and have useable physics and finally the ability to edit the blocks. Not to mention the lack of lag.

yeah... those two combined are pretty impossible in Minecraft, you can have only one. Collision is a huge problem and updating information on many blocks at the same time is a big problem... Minecraft is not yet the game for that

[bsb23 303]

Oh thats right they don't have collision yet do they. Everything else is so perfect.

[YourMajesty 10]

I'll agree, the character movement does look really awful, but the truth is, all the enemies look like hydralisks because hydralisks are both cool and imposing in appearance. In the video I saw of the guy defending his trench with a machine gun while search lights illuminated portions of his forward terrain and hydralisks were bounding forward in swarms, I felt like the game was channeling the cutscene from the original Starcraft.

I'm not saying that hydralisks don't look cool/imposing. I'm just wondering whether or not that would fly with Blizzard. And it's great that they can invoke a certain felling in you, but if they're designing their own game, they shouldn't be trying to make you feel like you're looking at another game.

Either way, I'd be more impressed if they tried to design a monster that wasn't such a blatant rip-off of another well-known monster. I understand that's not easy to do, but it's something you have to do as a designer. I'll just give them the benefit of the doubt and chalk all of this up to "we needed to prepare a demo, but we didn't have the time/resources to design an enemy ourselves."

They could have at least recolored the damn thing, though.

[Gorni 73]

ehm... i don't really get why everyone thinks those things are hydralisks... they don't shoot projectiles and look a lot more like worms to me... i don't really see that much in common except the rough posture.

[YourMajesty 10]

I suppose that, now that I've gotten a better look at them, they don't look as much like hydralisks as I'd initially thought. It probably was the posture, as well as the coloration that threw me.

[redundantusage 330]

Any game when it's in early development will be rough and probably look very much like whatever inspired the creators. As the game develops further it'll eventually take on a much more personalized feel.

[Leosallespoli 338]

Any game when it's in early development will be rough and probably look very much like whatever inspired the creators. As the game develops further it'll eventually take on a much more personalized feel.

But as I've read they will make it free but you'll have to pay for blocks, for me this is such a bad idea...

[transcengopher 349]

But as I've read they will make it free but you'll have to pay for blocks, for me this is such a bad idea...

Why would you want to shoot your game in the foot like that?

[Leosallespoli 338]

Why would you want to shoot your game in the foot like that?

Its so sad... I hate most free games because of this.

[Gorni 73]

ehm guys...the thing with free game but buyable blocks was cancelled a while ago that is why they started the indiegogo campain cause the game will now be release as you would do normally. 1 pay and you get everything.