A trailer of sorts -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1iLpQjULA
Me want!
LOL...very odd trailer, don't know what to think?
Wow! Someone did a lot of drugs while working on that one! Which won't stop me from buying it if it's any good!
It's a Steampunk city-builder with some Lovecraftian elements tossed in. Created by the guys who did the roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor. I played the latter over 200 hours and would still happily start it up again. Hopefully they do as well in the city builder genre.
Insta-buy.
Depressed colonists who turn to drink to deal with the dangers of their everyday lives? Cultists summoning Lovecraftian monstrosities from beyond the stars? A lot of people on fire?
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Quote from: Arctic Blast on October 31, 2013, 11:55:29 PM
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Yes, it DOES sound like a weekend BBQ at Star's house, doesn't it???
Quote from: Steelgrave on November 01, 2013, 12:26:12 AM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on October 31, 2013, 11:55:29 PM
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Yes, it DOES sound like a weekend BBQ at Star's house, doesn't it???
Fire, depression, alcohol abuse and Cthulhu... Now here I was sure that everyone would think of me!
Great looking game!
Quote from: son_of_montfort on November 01, 2013, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: Steelgrave on November 01, 2013, 12:26:12 AM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on October 31, 2013, 11:55:29 PM
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Yes, it DOES sound like a weekend BBQ at Star's house, doesn't it???
Fire, depression, alcohol abuse and Cthulhu... Now here I was sure that everyone would think of me!
Great looking game!
It was missing porn and medieval France references so we sill didn't attribute it to you :P
Throw some porn into the mix and that has Game of the Year potential.
Quote from: Tpek on November 01, 2013, 07:34:32 AM
Quote from: son_of_montfort on November 01, 2013, 07:31:41 AM
Quote from: Steelgrave on November 01, 2013, 12:26:12 AM
Quote from: Arctic Blast on October 31, 2013, 11:55:29 PM
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Yes, it DOES sound like a weekend BBQ at Star's house, doesn't it???
Fire, depression, alcohol abuse and Cthulhu... Now here I was sure that everyone would think of me!
Great looking game!
It was missing porn and medieval France references so we sill didn't attribute it to you :P
Ha!
Nailed it :)
This sounds like a great game, sort of like a Monty Python version of Crusader Kings 2. :D I hope they can pull it off. I was reading one of the previews where the devs were throwing a lot of great ideas around but when questioned on implementation, they kept saying stuff like "we still are working on getting it in the game in a fun way" etc. etc. It is not easy to implement such free-form stuff.
Still, I have my fingers crossed. I've been hoping for a more accessible Dwarf Fortress for years. :)
Monty Python version of Crusader Kings 2
Just the thought of that made me chuckle :)
Quote from: bob48 on November 02, 2013, 06:50:13 AM
Monty Python version of Crusader Kings 2
Just the thought of that made me chuckle :)
That would make for a good CK2 mod! Could you imagine a killer rabbit random event? ;D
As long as the Holy Hand Grenade was on the research tree.............
Consult the Book of Armaments! :) :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRJ1B4DknOY
gameplay footage
I do like the look of it.
The music is freaking me out.
Very interesting, thanks for the link Undercovergeek. Kinda like a Steampunk Banished, but with combat.
RPS had a write-up about to today, too. Sounds very promising. http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/20/clockwork-empires-preview/
must not buy in early, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuust not
I bet you do though ;)
It's like they made this game directly for me. Deciding whether or not to have Victorian steampunk colonists form cults based on Great Old One relics....
Seriously, they must have a key-logger on my computer. Sneaked in through via Dungeons of Dreadmor.
The Rock Paper Shotgun article certainly peeked my interest!
Quote from: son_of_montfort on March 20, 2014, 03:33:32 PM
It's like they made this game directly for me. Deciding whether or not to have Victorian steampunk colonists form cults based on Great Old One relics....
Seriously, they must have a key-logger on my computer. Sneaked in through via Dungeons of Dreadmor.
I've been wondering how interesting the Lovecraftian stuff will be in this kind of
Dwarf Fortress style game. I have doubts as to whether there will be anything more to them than randomized raiding monsters. ???
YT link from above in proper window:
All my squee are belong to them...
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We have spent an intense few weeks considering our plans for the next few months, and as a result, we've decided to push back early access of Clockwork Empires to the summer. It's a short delay from our original release window for early access, but a delay nonetheless.
http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/04/23/a-scheduling-change/
...didn't know they were going to do an early access.
Quote from: steve58 on April 24, 2014, 09:57:26 AM
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We have spent an intense few weeks considering our plans for the next few months, and as a result, we've decided to push back early access of Clockwork Empires to the summer. It's a short delay from our original release window for early access, but a delay nonetheless.
http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/04/23/a-scheduling-change/
...didn't know they were going to do an early access.
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 20, 2014, 03:16:11 PM
must not buy in early, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuust not
i dont know, you bring news to the masses.............
Are you quoting and responding to yourself up there? Damn it's worse than I thought.
lol, im quoting my quote to steve to suggest further up the thread there is a post to suggest it was early access
Oh. What?
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.
But...it's steampunk. Bawb.
Quote from: bob48 on April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.
you still having steam problems?
Quote from: undercovergeek on April 25, 2014, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: bob48 on April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.
you still having steam problems?
He's pro'lly getting steamed up about it too.
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 25, 2014, 08:51:45 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on April 25, 2014, 06:26:11 PM
Quote from: bob48 on April 25, 2014, 05:18:47 PM
I do so hope this game is not going to be on Steam.
you still having steam problems?
He's pro'lly getting steamed up about it too.
He needs to blow some Steam.
Not sure if they'd take him up on it, however.
I've just had so many problems with Steam recently that I don't bother with it. I only have a few games anyway, and most of them I can play in off-line mode. I have made up my mind, if possible, never to buy another game that has to rely on Steam.
early access tomorrow
http://clockworkempires.com/
R' ye gettin' it, guv?
Oooh..................ooh....oooohhhh!
Uh oh.
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 17, 2014, 05:47:43 AM
R' ye gettin' it, guv?
It's not often I say this but I'm ok for games.... I'm happy with what I'm playing and have other stuff in the pipeline.... I'll watch but I'm not in yet
I've been watching this one for the last year (or two?) and was looking forward to it, but I think I'm gonna have to hold off for a couple of reasons. Not happy with $30 price tag for an early, early access game and the minimum requirements might also put it out of my reach for now. The min specs call for an i5 and I've got a Core2Quad 2.66GHz, so I'll still be watching and waiting... :(
I got this one over the weekend, and could devote something like one hour to it.
I liked a lot what I saw, but it's clearly work in progress - so not the best value for money right now. I could appreciate that the systems in it are as deep and complex as advertised, and I could also see the precursor of a strong AI driving your colonists (even with some blatant bugs/glitches, like them ignoring the accommodation I had built and sleeping instead in the cold damp ground).
My favorite moment was when I got to see my colonists repelling an incursion of fish people and then cutting their corpses for meat (I was trying to figure out how to kickstart food production, and they were hungry). This in particular highlights the AI as I perceive it to be the result of something like this:
1) Food levels in the stockpile are low, goal for idle colonists (the soldiers in this particular example) is set to bring up food levels
2) Options to achieve that goal were - from what I could work out from the interface - gather berries/mushrooms in the forest, slaughter fish people corpses
3) The AI evaluates its options and sees that the fish people corpses are closer to the stockpile than the berries/mushrooms
4) The AI commits to the fish people option, and a colonist executes a series of tasks (represented by the animation the character is playing) to gather food - pick up tool (knife), go to corpse, slaughter corpse, pick up meat, go to stockpile, etc.
I didn't see them hunting any wildlife, I am not sure that was because they were being thrifty about their firearms or because the AI has still to be programmed to consider that as an option.
Quote from: Bletchley_Geek on July 21, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
I didn't see them hunting any wildlife, I am not sure that was because they were being thrifty about their firearms or because the AI has still to be programmed to consider that as an option.
The work crews have the hunting option turned off by default. IIRC, it is the second option from the right. After I set my militia to hunt, they engaged the local wildlife.
I played for about an hour as well and would also classify CE as a 'work in progress'. I had some errors (resulting in a crash) related to patrol waypoints and also wasn't able to get my workshop sawing planks (despite queuing them up), I had to manually select each bundle of logs and chose the 'plank' option.
I'm thinking I will give this one a couple weeks before experimenting again. It has potential, but probably isn't worth the money for the 'early early access', unless you want to support the devs.
Quote from: Dread Rlyeh on July 21, 2014, 11:51:10 PM
Quote from: Bletchley_Geek on July 21, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
I didn't see them hunting any wildlife, I am not sure that was because they were being thrifty about their firearms or because the AI has still to be programmed to consider that as an option.
The work crews have the hunting option turned off by default. IIRC, it is the second option from the right. After I set my militia to hunt, they engaged the local wildlife.
ALL HAIL <won't pronounce that name, just in case>!
Your voice didn't melt my brain or anything, so I have a chance to give it a try :)
Quote from: Dread Rlyeh on July 21, 2014, 11:51:10 PM
I played for about an hour as well and would also classify CE as a 'work in progress'. I had some errors (resulting in a crash) related to patrol waypoints and also wasn't able to get my workshop sawing planks (despite queuing them up), I had to manually select each bundle of logs and chose the 'plank' option.
I wondered myself as well what was going on with the production of manufactured goods - like planks. Indeed, we got just a proof that they're for real, let's check it in a couple weeks. Although you might want to check on those colonists sooner, just in case some other deity from beyond stars claims first dibs on them and their descendants!
Quote from: Bletchley_Geek on July 22, 2014, 12:00:38 AM
Quote from: Dread Rlyeh on July 21, 2014, 11:51:10 PM
Quote from: Bletchley_Geek on July 21, 2014, 08:38:52 PM
I didn't see them hunting any wildlife, I am not sure that was because they were being thrifty about their firearms or because the AI has still to be programmed to consider that as an option.
The work crews have the hunting option turned off by default. IIRC, it is the second option from the right. After I set my militia to hunt, they engaged the local wildlife.
ALL HAIL <won't pronounce that name, just in case>!
Your voice didn't melt my brain or anything, so I have a chance to give it a try :)
Quote from: Dread Rlyeh on July 21, 2014, 11:51:10 PM
I played for about an hour as well and would also classify CE as a 'work in progress'. I had some errors (resulting in a crash) related to patrol waypoints and also wasn't able to get my workshop sawing planks (despite queuing them up), I had to manually select each bundle of logs and chose the 'plank' option.
I wondered myself as well what was going on with the production of manufactured goods - like planks. Indeed, we got just a proof that they're for real, let's check it in a couple weeks. Although you might want to check on those colonists sooner, just in case some other deity from beyond stars claims first dibs on them and their descendants!
The forum wouldn't let me register with a ' in my username. Probably some sort of safety feature to prevent intersection with a hell-dimension :)
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Just a quick comment on the devs - I do really like their sense of humor and their transparency about the status of the game and the development priorities.
They do have really awesome standards when it comes to the latter
http://clockworkempires.com/development.html
stuff like the above is simply brilliant: with so much Early Access titles out there, with so little transparency about issues critical to credibility, the example set by Gaslamp Games does really stand out.
Quote from: Bletchley_Geek on July 23, 2014, 07:33:19 PM
Just a quick comment on the devs - I do really like their sense of humor and their transparency about the status of the game and the development priorities.
They do have really awesome standards when it comes to the latter
http://clockworkempires.com/development.html
stuff like the above is simply brilliant: with so much Early Access titles out there, with so little transparency about issues critical to credibility, the example set by Gaslamp Games does really stand out.
:o Their attention to detail on presenting status progression is unsurpassed O0
This is one I have my eye and may pick up for something different.
Impressions from RPS (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/08/14/clockwork-empires-release/#more-226753)...and looks like it'll be available early-access on Steam tomorrow.
Oh my...
Quote from: steve58 on August 14, 2014, 01:29:18 PM
Impressions from RPS (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/08/14/clockwork-empires-release/#more-226753)...and looks like it'll be available early-access on Steam tomorrow.
and entirely optional villager bios tell of their hopes, fears, histories and politics.
Exactly and Victoria Bronzecog has a list of (topics or objects or mental quandries above her memories) including Mrs. Smith's Stout Lugs as well as Labourer and Gossip.