Looking great!
Will there be a story or do people fully decide what they want to do on their own?
Could you give us some more detail on the gameplay?
It's really looking great, I'm going to follow this, this looks interesting.
Thanks!!
The plan so far is certainly to avoid a core story. Script writing is not one of my strengths, and I'd prefer to aim for replayability through creativity (if that makes sense...)
However, for those who like to have a purpose or a goal, there will be a mixture of random events and world progression, so that there is always something available to aim for.
Random events: These will be small scripted events that can pop up anywhere on the map when you get close, normally rewarding a small monetary prize, or a cosmetic item.
e.g. Crazy cat lady is being attacked by pandas. Protect her from the pandas, and she rewards you 10silver and a 10% chance of a pet catWorld progression: is a set defined tree of events that you can progress a world through, with each one introducing a new biome or set of NPCs, that further affect your choice of how to progress, meaning several people could reach the end of the tree, but all with completely different materials/technologies/end bosses available to them, giving a reason to jump onto friends servers, or to start over for a different experience.
As for gameplay controls, movement is WASD, with an action bar for bindable spells to mouse buttons and number keys. This part normally gets cropped out of the gifs to save space, but should be viewable in the full screenshots.
Controller support is always a possibility, but will probably wait until there's some demand for it.