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[Farmergnome]

I had a talk to Mike and we are gonna ship with a map editor and a auto download feature so you guys can mod the crap out of it and make a whole bunch of new playfields/islands, upload them to the UTO server, and everyone will be able to see your uploads every time they start a new game.  The only thing we wont be doing for early release is using a custom editor, we will be Modding the Tiled editor for now, as we don't really have the resources to build a editor from scratch, that being said it is much nicer than the original games editor, so it shouldn't be too much trouble to use.

[ithamore]

I'm glad to see how the game is progressing, and the modding seems very promising. 

[Farmergnome]

I'm glad to see how the game is progressing, and the modding seems very promising. 

Thanks bro, the whole modding/procedural thing has been a bit of a hot topic last few days, but we are basically doing this on a shoestring budget, so I guess opening it up for modding levels is the cheapest of all the options (basically just cleanup the devtools and release them with the game, throw in a auto-updater), since as I have said before, I think making it procedural will hurt the gameplay on some level, especially done on the cheap.

Hopefully the people who want some sort of procedural/repeat gameplay will see this as some sort of middle ground to work with, if the game turns out to be successful, the first thing I will do with the $ we make is throw the money back into making some kickass custom modding tools.

[HyperDuckChris]

I had a talk to Mike and we are gonna ship with a map editor and a auto download feature so you guys can mod the crap out of it and make a whole bunch of new playfields/islands, upload them to the UTO server, and everyone will be able to see your uploads every time they start a new game.  The only thing we wont be doing for early release is using a custom editor, we will be Modding the Tiled editor for now, as we don't really have the resources to build a editor from scratch, that being said it is much nicer than the original games editor, so it shouldn't be too much trouble to use.

That is just, fucking awesome.

[oyog]

Wondering about supporting the game I went to the website and looked at payment options, where I noticed "The Annoying Cockroach Edition - Download the game from The Pirate Bay when it comes out. Let's face it - not much we can do to stop you, is there? Plus you can survive nuclear winter!"

  

[Farmergnome]

Wondering about supporting the game I went to the website and looked at payment options, where I noticed "The Annoying Cockroach Edition - Download the game from The Pirate Bay when it comes out. Let's face it - not much we can do to stop you, is there? Plus you can survive nuclear winter!"

   

Haha yea, just a bit of fun, Mike decided to take the link down though since apparently some developers had a problem with it or something?  Who knows.  I still say if you want to pirate it when it drops, go for it.

[Sean A.]

I actually saw this on reddit after I saw it here which makes me feel like a real hipster it looks great though. The cutting and bridge building look very intuitive. Just out of curiosity, do you plan on leaving the solid ground parts black?

[Ocid]

2 weeks until playable alpha?

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[Farmergnome]

2 weeks until playable alpha?

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!

That IMO is optimistic, it could be anywhere from 2-4 weeks, depending on how much time we get to spend on the project, that being said, thanks to reddit and a ton of people that pre-ordered today, Im going to take some time off work (again...)  and do this fulltime, WIN.  Also, we should be livestreaming tonight at this stage onwards with any luck, and the rest of the development of the game will be done over it, details will go up tonight.

I actually saw this on reddit after I saw it here which makes me feel like a real hipster it looks great though. The cutting and bridge building look very intuitive. Just out of curiosity, do you plan on leaving the solid ground parts black?

Yea the solid ground parts will remain black.

[capn.lee]

will you be putting out the map editor before the games release or is that just a headache you don't need ?

[Farmergnome]

will you be putting out the map editor before the games release or is that just a headache you don't need ?

The map editor is publicly available, its called Tiled, its open source, though any map editor that that writes in CSV can edit the levels, if you want to use something else, though initially we will be just including modding instructions for Tiled.  Its fairly simple to build levels with, I will do some quick tutorials over livestream closer to alpha if there is interest.  The game handles most of the small details procedurally (placing grass, rocks, etc), though all of that is also editable.

[capn.lee]

sorry, completely missed that previous post explaining everything I asked
I would be interested in building my own levels or even recreating the under the garden level

[JohnJ]

Sent an email to your company account [email protected]. Will you receive it there?

[Farmergnome]

Sent an email to your company account [email protected]. Will you receive it there?

I just checked my BBG email and couldn't find anything, hit me up on [email protected], sometimes the BBG one is a bit faulty.

sorry, completely missed that previous post explaining everything I asked
I would be interested in building my own levels or even recreating the under the garden level

When alpha drops ill be spending a solid week building levels and stuff on livestream, so everyone can build stuff on the livestream if keen, its fairly easy to learn.  We are deciding some cool early prizes to get the ball rolling as far as map creation also, more on that soon.

[Recs]

if it's not too complicated/expensive would it be possible to have an in-game level/map browser/downloader like those on stealth bastard or voxatron, to download user created levels in a safer, easier way?