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[BartsBlue]

As a part of silent majority that just drops in to this thread from time to time, only to realize everything interesting / helpful / funny has already been said and leave, I'd just like to give a proper shoutout to Joar and James: this is the final stretch, keep crunching, don't worry about the updates.

Rain World is shaping up lovely! I'm actually proud of myself that I backed it on Kickstarter and the only thing that bugs me is that I should have paid more back then to support you (and get the extras, tee hee). All the best from Poland!

PS. Sextupled on the whole "tentacles sucked in like spaghetti" thing. And yes, that is a real word, I just checked.

[Christian]

Stay healthy and keep up the good work, guys. No need to worry about updates, we understand

[Wolvered]

Hi!
Learned about this game's existence three days ago... I just finished reading the 283 pages! What can I say that hasn't been said? Amazing game made by amazing devs followed by an amazing community!
Congrats to Joar and James for making such an amazing game    
Still funny to think it came from 'One screen with three A, B and C creature interacting with each other' to '1400+ rooms made of several screens filled with a living ecosystem'  

And how could all of you wait for this game while keeping your sanity? It's coming out in a few months and I can't wait for it already!  

[tortoiseandcrow]

James! More off-topic music/sound stuff here:

You know how you were using junk audio for the soundtrack? Have you by any chance heard of Matmos? Their new album is made up entirely of samples from a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II washing machine, and it is amazing.

[jprosk]

I'm so happy I have discovered TIGForums. This is incredibly captivating.
I learned about this because I was reading the Obra Dinn devlog and saw the award this got back in 2014. I am currently on page 74 and I plan to finish all the pages. Eventually! (It might be a month or two at this rate, haha....)
Keep doing what you are doing. What I have seen so far makes me want to make my own game!

EDIT: I just reached the April Fools update from last year. Thank you for making me laugh my ass off 

[DarthTrae]

I usually avoid pixel art but this one looks great to me!! 

[Christian]

Just learned about another game that's planning an ecosystem with an adaptative AI

Nothing like Rain World genre/gameplay-wise, but I really enjoy seeing devs trying to advance AI in interesting ways

http://twirlbound.com/pine/

[jamesprimate]

Just learned about another game that's planning an ecosystem with an adaptative AI

Nothing like Rain World genre/gameplay-wise, but I really enjoying seeing devs trying to advance AI in interesting ways

http://twirlbound.com/pine/

ah yeah! it needs to happen and there is absolutely no reason not to... other than that its messy and time consuming and rich with infinite feature creep potential 

the description is a little jargony for my tastes though, i hope we dont come across like that haha

[David Berman]

I had a slow week at work and accidentally skimmed through the whole dev log again...

A few thoughts actually:

It was really interesting to see how way back at the start, pre-kickstarter, a publicly accessible level editor was a key aspect of development, which suddenly made me very nostalgic for early Unreal engine mapping - understandably once things switched to Unity (and probably a while before then really!) and priorities shifted it became a means to an end rather than a focus. I'm sure it is the furthest thing from your minds now you are on the home stretch but I wondered in a related and roundabout way how moddable the game would be? It seems like things have become way too complicated for a super user friendly level editor - the levels and accompanying effects/AI mapping are way more intricate now so I imagine that is off the table, but I wonder what the scope will be otherwise?

The combined threat track from a few pages back was really cool - can't wait to hear the soundtrack in action, but it obviously totally works as a standalone piece too!

Then quickly looking at a few of the recent smaller additions - most of the new food sources/tools look and seem really cool, but in a bit of nit-picky way I wondered about the Jellyfish, Lantern and Fire Spear... the jellyfish body itself seems a little static (though that is based on one gif - I feel hypercritical, sorry!), though that could be on purpose of course, highlighting their buoy like quality. The lantern's look was already described as maybe a placeholder so again, perhaps early to be critical, but with both the lantern and fire spear I wondered if they feel slightly... gamey? Compared to the smoke bomb/plant for example, both seem at first glance a little too forced or placed in the world? Whereas many of the other common video game item tropes have been somewhat subverted (ie. the tube worm grappling hooks) these seem maybe slightly out of place? If they are meant to be junky and mechanical and definitely linked to the scavengers, who rummage around looking for old tech/useful things such as these, perhaps the mechanical/junk nature could be emphasized?

[jamesprimate]

It was really interesting to see how way back at the start, pre-kickstarter, a publicly accessible level editor was a key aspect of development, which suddenly made me very nostalgic for early Unreal engine mapping - understandably once things switched to Unity (and probably a while before then really!) and priorities shifted it became a means to an end rather than a focus. I'm sure it is the furthest thing from your minds now you are on the home stretch but I wondered in a related and roundabout way how moddable the game would be? It seems like things have become way too complicated for a super user friendly level editor - the levels and accompanying effects/AI mapping are way more intricate now so I imagine that is off the table, but I wonder what the scope will be otherwise?

ah yeah! for the level editor, its not so much the move to unity as 1. that it has to run on super outdated tech (instanced within Adobe Director), and 2. that it has become *insanely* complex and unintuitive at this point. We'd likely need an equal amount of time to develop that for public use as the game itself! Also, since the game world has become so huge and factoring in the eventual multiplayer rooms and all of that... i feel like the last thing people are going to want is *more* maps, lol. But I could be wrong!

[jamesprimate]

placing in magic mushroom consumables, so now its officially A Real Video Game:






GUYS THIS MONTH HAS BEEN SO WILD YOU DONT EVEN KNOW!!

[presidenthobbes]

Please tell me that the magic mushrooms make the pups grow bigger.   

[gimymblert]

If they makes the pups grow bigger that's the mac donald of rain world

[eigenbom]

dropping my annual <3 on the this thing <3 <3 <3

[jprosk]

Well I just finished, finally. Looks like a couple weeks was a better estimate for how long it would take me

[ENDESGA]

Man I'm so pumped for this game <3

[jamesprimate]

Well I just finished, finally. Looks like a couple weeks was a better estimate for how long it would take me

what a brave soul! 

[presidenthobbes]

So how much stuff is left to be done? Is stuff like the sandbox mode, the arena, etc. implemented to completion?

[jamesprimate]

shockingly little tbh! we have some insane deadline that were trying to meet right now, but its mostly testing and bug-hunts and touch-up stuff, trying to get the experience right.

the past few weeks have been wild though! i find it hard to find a place to begin to talk about it. we've been living in an echo chamber for years (well aware!), so having it going through legit testing by normal gamer types has been seriously eye-opening. not in a bad way necessarily, just that its quite apparent that a lot of the cool systems of the game are completely opaque, and so now were trying to find ways of making it so you dont need to read 284 pages of devblog to be able to see some of them.

[Lucs]

the past few weeks have been wild though! i find it hard to find a place to begin to talk about it. we've been living in an echo chamber for years (well aware!), so having it going through legit testing by normal gamer types has been seriously eye-opening. not in a bad way necessarily, just that its quite apparent that a lot of the cool systems of the game are completely opaque, and so now were trying to find ways of making it so you dont need to read 284 pages of devblog to be able to see some of them.

I thought most of the different systems were well introduced, what are those you are referring to (wich are not transparent for these average gamers) ?
Maybe we can help