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[Christian Knudsen]

Jesus Christ this is amazing! I love that rotating minimap and the Simlish-like talking NPCs! Everything has such a lovely feel and atmosphere to it. Seriously, keep up the good work! I hope this project is as successful as it deserves to be!

EDIT: Just checked your blog and saw the massive amount of comments you're getting. I don't think there's any chance of this game not being successful!

[wollay]

Wait... frontpage? Wow, awesome!

[BomberTREE]

You deserved it, cant wait to explore stuff :D

[illisid]

God this looks so awesome. I commented this on your blog post but I'll post it here too:

what are your plans with this game? multiplayer? singleplayer? Story-based and linear, or completely sandbox? Or somewhere in between, like elder scrolls-ish? Whatever you decide, I just want even just a minor demo... this looks so incredibly sweet.

[SolarLune]

I'd like to see some multiplayer action, as well. In fact, I'd plop down $10 for an alpha right now. I mean, right now. Right. NOW.

[SirNiko]

This looks pretty lovely!

I'm a little disappointed that it'll be procedurally generated. The multiplayer helps, but ultimately I feel like some intelligently designed content would be what really makes this take off. Given the voxelly nature of the game, maybe you'd do well to create an editor and let other players develop some dungeons and overworld locations for you to use? I could folks who currently obsess over minecraft building detailed dungeons filled with beautiful decorations and others creating bizarre miniquests and platforming challenges.

Perhaps an easy midway point would be to have the "Campaign" go through a series of key dungeons and bosses, but the overworld is scrambled up procedurally for the purpose of replay value. Have a New Game + feature with scaling difficulty similar to Demon's Souls and I'd be excited.

Otherwise this feels like it'll be a minecraftian sandbox that will be a lot of fun for a few weeks then get really tedious in a hurry.

Part of the fun of Minecraft is returning to the server and seeing what other players have created in your absence. Without that in this game, I feel like it'd get repetitive even faster as you explore the same random zones without any human intervention.

This has a lot of potential! Hope to see a playable demo soon!

[eigenbom]

Beautiful!

[Kapser]

I might go against what most people think, but I don't think the game should try to go too far away from Minecraft but further instead.

It has great new things to offer: the graphics are great, and the battle system is more than decent. However, I'm scared that the game design vision doesn't exploit the nature of voxel in terms of gameplay. I like the randomly generated quests idea, but what I'd like to see is really exploring and bumping on an infinity of possible surprises and rewards.
 If it's complex enough and the world is huge, this could leave for a lot of replayability and really make me want to explore forever.

These could fix the limited replayability of Minecraft for the more hardcore gamers that will stop playing after reaching the 'done everything peak', but if all what was great about it is removed, it might feel more like a typical hack and slash mmo than the rich game it could be.

Anyways, I'm sure it will end up a great game and I'll keep an eye on it, but I sure do hope to see some modificable terrains.

[BomberTREE]

I'm hoping you will avoid building features, since that's why I will never find a dragon in Minecraft, you build a house, sit there, then what? Leave your home and build another one? Sure, its all fun until you've spent a year building the same house everywhere.

without mining, crafting or building

Thank you 

[MMM103]

This looks like just about the best thing ever from the gameplay videos I've seen. VERY promising, take your time finishing and I'm sure this will be one of my favorites.

[Rob Lach]

I really like where this is headed. Pretty fresh but doused in old-school rpg charm.

[bome99]

looks amazing!!!

[Xion]

this looks more excellent than ever. Will there be indoor/underground/enclosed locations to explore?
edit; just saw that there are castles. Awesome.

[kyn]

The frontpage brought me here. I've been following your blog for some time now but had no idea you were hanging around these parts as well. Just wanted to say, the game looks really promising, keep up the good work.

[Sph!nx]

Wow, this looks really awesome. Looking forward to see more!

[eobet]

Whoah, a Minecraft/Infiniminer inspired game that seems to be able to make it on its own!

Was this the one with the early movie of a giant that threw fireballs into the ground?

BUT whyyyyyyyyy of why does it have cookie-cutter MMORPG quests? Kill X foozle and return to me is so boring! Come on, this is single player in a voxel engine. Do some landscaping quests!

Example:

"Please heroes, my farm has dried up. Can you figure out a way to redirect the river to water my crops?"

"Dear heroes, we dug too deep in the cave and monsters are pouring out. Can you please figure out a way to block the tunnel so our miners can safely continue their work?"

"Brave heroes, trolls have blocked the mountain road with stones and are ambushing our caravans. Can you please figure out a way to enable our wagons to reach the other village?"

...and then have each solution to be completely dynamic! Like, blocking off too much tunnels makes the miners mine much less gold and give you less reward and if you don't want to fight the trolls, you can build a new mountain road, which maybe increases the travel time of the caravans causing other issues, but still. This engine seems made for emergent gameplay!

[SolarLune]

I would personally like to see it not be about building - Minecraft does voxel-based building. This should be more about fighting and destruction - about action more-so, I think. Although, eobet's quest ideas do sound interesting. I do agree that the 'kill X and return to me' quests are a little boring.

[Entity]

Wow, this is looking rather sexy. The untextured look really sets it apart graphically from other cube based games. I also love the focus on the RPG elements, rather than mining.

[BlueSweatshirt]

I would personally like to see it not be about building - Minecraft does voxel-based building. This should be more about fighting and destruction - about action more-so, I think. Although, eobet's quest ideas do sound interesting. I do agree that the 'kill X and return to me' quests are a little boring.

Why the hell does an RPG need to have stupid quests where all you do is go around doing menial tasks that other people should be doing. If this is an action-RPG why should he need to help the dude fill up his pond again? It makes no sense. Who is this hero? What is his role? What are his skills? Do people need his skills? Then you come up with interesting situations to take advantage of those skills. Cool quests have cool and interesting stories that play into the content of such. It is a quest after all, not a menial, boring chore.

I apologize the rant, wollay, but hopefully it'll contain some sort of insight.
Also, my anger was not directed at you, SolarLune, but rather at the cookiecutter trend of RPGs.

[EDIT]
By the way I love what I see. You create an awesome atmosphere. The animations and visual effects are also great, I'd say. They compliment the game well.
One thing that would be neat would be a prefab system of some sort. Build prefabs and they can be injected into your randomly generated levels. You could even go a step further and release the tools for anyone to use, hook it up to an online database, and let the content explosion begin.

[SolarLune]

I apologize the rant, but hopefully it'll contain some sort of insight.
Also, my anger was not directed at you, SolarLune, but rather at the cookiecutter trend of RPGs.

Nah, it's cool, I get you. You're right that the quests could be less chore-based and more story and skill-based - quests that play into the specific role of the hero. It'd be interesting if the quests changed depending on what type of hero you are. For example, a swordsman's quest could be to participate in a gladiator's quest, while an archer could direct an ambush on a flying enemy (distance attacks).