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Tale of the White Wyvern Launch

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Tale of the White Wyvern is a text based, high fantasy, sword and magic adventure mini-MMO that you can play with your friends! Created by Jon & Travis from Cheerful Ghost this game is a must-play for everyone in the Cheerful Ghost community or anyone that enjoys fun!

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BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony

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Diablo: Hellfire on Web

The open ceremony at BlizzCon opens the event and usually drops all the big announcements for what we can expect to come in Blizzards immediate future. Diablo 4? An Overwatch expansion? Only Thrall knows for sure...

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Short-term Starbound server!

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Start: Mon - December 9, 2013

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Starbound on Steam

Come play the beta with us. The only rules are to not be a dick and steal things, destroy other people's things, etc.

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jdodson Admin wrote on 12/11/2013 at 02:45am

This is just to test out Starbound multi-player. Travis's connection is a bit slower. When we run the official server I might host it as I have a lot more up than him.

Thanks for doing this Travis, how hard was setting it up?

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 12/11/2013 at 02:58am

Very easy. Just forward a port and start it up. The password is just a matter of changing the config file.

And Blue_Element reports no lag, so maybe it's you! :)

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/11/2013 at 03:18am

Maybe it is!

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 12/12/2013 at 03:04am

Just FYI, there are currently some version issues. The game updated but it doesn't appear the server executable updated to the new version. I'm trying to figure that out.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 12/12/2013 at 03:06am

OK apparently it updated while the server was running and just didn't bother to tell me about that.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/12/2013 at 07:30pm

Hopped on the server last night although, sadly, I was alone. ; ;

I'm guessing we all spawn on different worlds? Because the one I started on seemed like it was completely untouched, including a chest that was fairly close to the spawn point and still had loot in it. It also had a really cool underground base that I had fun looting and killing all the inhabitants of. I didn't get to fully explore it because my inventory filled up and I had decided to leave and come back later. Lots of awesome decorative items in there! When the game gets closer to release I really look forward to building some more permanent structures.

The last balancing patch seems to have worked pretty well. The amount of damage I was dealing (and taking) felt fair and reasonable. The amounts of Ore I was finding seemed good too with the exception of coal. It's not that I didn't find any coal at all, I just didn't get to fill up my fuel very much at all after I was done crafting torches and whatnot. Seeing as i can't use wood for fuel anymore that is kind of a drag.

Over all I'm very impressed with the game and especially with Chucklefish for making so many improvements on the game so rapidly. It still has a long ways to go but so far I'm very pleased.

Random observation: Last night I encountered a bird type monster whose attack consisted of vomiting blood on me... >.<

jdodson Admin wrote on 12/12/2013 at 07:34pm

No wood for fuel anymore? I guess you can make coal now but its 10 => 1 which is really silly expensive.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 12/14/2013 at 02:35am

Hey sorry, this has been down for a while. Not sure how long or why. I'll keep it up a little while longer.

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Starbound Beta Launch

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Start: Wed - December 4, 2013

End: Fri - December 6, 2013

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Starbound on Steam

"Starbound beta release is looking to be around dec 4th. Assuming arrangements go through with steam."

I can't wait. Join the event and let me know how the beta works out for you!

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jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/03/2013 at 02:19am

Just posted some info on starting the game out. Might be useful to people :D

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1763

Travis Admin wrote on 12/03/2013 at 02:56am

I'm considering how much I want to play it. I mean I have to check it out and play with it but I don't want to play so much of the early beta that I have no desire to play when the final version drops. That's the downside to early access games I guess.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/03/2013 at 03:05am

Right. My plan is to play a bit of the early game till I get an understanding of it. Honestly not much more than those Let's Plays. Maybe do a Let's Play of my own, then kind of back off and see how it is updated and what bugs people find with it.

But yeah, you can't go back and play a game once again and "going all in hardcore style" will make the game harder to play again when it finally drops. I remember friends that played Diablo III beta over and over again loathe having to do the Skeleton King run another time when the game finally dropped.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/03/2013 at 11:04pm

I'm definitely going to be poking around in the game when it drops. I will not be building any grand houses until there is some permanence to our characters/worlds. :)

I doubt I'll be putting in the kind of play time I spent on Terraria until the game is a little more close to completion and the Cheerfulghost server close to reality. Then again, I started playing Minecraft during the beta and I sunk a loooot of hours in that game...

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/03/2013 at 11:07pm

:D. Once Chucklefish promises to not break worlds and saves the CG server will start. That said, I might run a shared game for an evening just to screw around with people if there is any interest in that.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/04/2013 at 12:08am

Let it be known: There is interest. :P

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/04/2013 at 01:55am

You know, I might setup something that day for a few days, just to tinker with if people want to try multiplayer. Hmmmm. More as it develops :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/04/2013 at 02:08am

You know, one thing I just thought about as I saw the image the Humble Store is using to sell Starbound.

https://humblebundle-a.akamaihd.net/misc/files/e136b99b85/images/storefront/large_featured_images/starbound_storefront.jpg

As I looked at that picture I was like...

"Hey wait, Starbound is a space game, but it has medieval elements.."

Then I thought about how that could make sense in the game world. After a bit of thought I sort of pieced together things we know. You start in a spaceship hovering over a planet with no space fuel. You start with a sword, a matter manipulator, torches and seeds.

My guess is the game story is something like you were left adrift by space pirates and they took most of your tech. You come across a planet and try and get your fuel back and then hit up other planets to tech up to.... get your revenge? They have said the story is different per race, but yeah, I was thinking "how could you go from spaceships to swords?"

Or it's just all BS because its fun to tech up from sticks and rocks to nukes. Again, fun, but they are putting in some kind of story so... well I guess we will see :D

Travis Admin wrote on 12/04/2013 at 04:50am

One more vote for a server to play on for a few days! :)

I haven't seen anywhere how we'll get our Steam keys. I assume they just show up on the Humble store page?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/04/2013 at 04:53am

Yeah so a bit about that I saw... let me see...

I seems like you will get a email from the Humble Store with your key by 10a PST. If you don't get the email, id just check the Humble Store.

http://playstarbound.com/notice-support-e-mails/

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/04/2013 at 09:21pm

I'll post something more substantial after work, but long story short, the game is very good. Ran into a quest smashing bug right away, when you used the bow the game crashed. The devs knew about it, but yeah for what worked it worked very well. When the game finally ships, it will be great.

Here is a screenshot of my mini base:

http://i.imgur.com/zgOtsAn.png

Travis Admin wrote on 12/04/2013 at 09:44pm

So I'm hearing, don't use the bow!

I never got a Humble email, but the key is waiting for me in my profile. Now to get home and play it.

hardeyez wrote on 12/05/2013 at 01:59am

Hmmm, the bow works for me and my daughters... Only crash I got was one time when I died.

hardeyez wrote on 12/05/2013 at 02:00am

My one daughter teleported down next to a "penal colony" ... a whole prison complex.
My other daughter has eyeballs on her trees -- WILD

Blue_Element wrote on 12/05/2013 at 02:48am

I'm having the hunting bow crash too. Besides that, the game seems pretty polished so far. I've seen a few glitches with the hover-text, but the bugs just make the game funny. I'm glad such a cool game like this made it to Mac.

Blue_Element wrote on 12/05/2013 at 02:52am

Woah. Turns out the game only crashes with the bow if you don't pull back the bow all the way. If you hold it down until it blinks, it'll shoot like normal.

Blue_Element wrote on 12/05/2013 at 03:30am

Wait, apparently it just started working for me all of a sudden. Guess it doesn't matter if you hold it all the way or not. Not sure what the cause or fix is, but it now works for me.

Travis Admin wrote on 12/05/2013 at 04:01am

There was a patch to fix the bow bug, which apparently only affected OSX users.

I have explored a bit and found an underground campsite type thing, apparently inhabited by electric floaty things and weird lizard people that sound like horses. The randomness is awesome.

I feel like the first time playing Terraria, and that's a good thing. I love Terraria but even with the 1.2 update I kinda knew what to expect. There were new things to find but the core of the game was the same. This is entirely new, and I'm loving the experience of totally discovering a game like this. So much to find, and every time you learn something you end up with new questions to answer.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/05/2013 at 04:08am

Yeah, the bow seems working now, I must have gotten the patch.

I just posted about my thoughts with the game and did a lets play of me traveling to a small moon. This game is freaking huge. So many planets to explore. My only gripe is how much of a pain it is to get coal to travel to other planets.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/1768

Blue_Element wrote on 12/05/2013 at 02:56pm

OMG, I just found out that typing emoticons in the chat, e.g. :D , :O , :'( , makes your character actually express the emotion. This is probably one of my favorite random features in the game right now.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/05/2013 at 06:21pm

Got to play around in game a little bit last night. So far I am really liking the game. By the time I logged in they had already patched the bug with the hunting bow, so I had no trouble with that. I did seem to have some trouble hitting mobs with the bow, but I'm not sure if that's a bug with hit detection or if my aim just really sucks. :P

Looks like the next patch has been planned for tonight. See details here: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/changes-coming-tonight.36663/

Travis Admin wrote on 12/05/2013 at 06:30pm

Oh those changes are great! I'm having trouble holding on to pixels early game so this helps a lot.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/05/2013 at 07:15pm

New things added to the list. He said he'll be updating it through out the day as changes are made/added.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/05/2013 at 07:31pm

Btw, did any of you guys see how sand/gravel physics work? It's actually kinda cool. They don't just fall straight down they kind of settle off to the side also. I accidentally buried myself alive by digging carelessly in some sand and causing a small avalanche. (I dug myself out, I didn't seem to take any damage or suffocate or anything while being buried in sand.)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/05/2013 at 07:43pm

Sand/gravel, yes I did. It's a really fun mechanic and if there are minerals in it, its pretty easy to get them all. Plus it's fun to just see it all freak out :D

Timogorgon Member wrote on 12/05/2013 at 09:02pm

Looks like we're getting craftable climbing ropes with tonight's update as well. WOOT! That was seriously one of the best additions to Terraria 1.2 and I'm glad to see it's coming to Starbound already. :D

Travis Admin wrote on 12/06/2013 at 01:59am

Yeah I'm looking forward to the ropes. Hellevator here I come!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 12/06/2013 at 02:28am

From the planets i've seen so far, digging to the bottom doesn't take much. THAT SAID, I have yet to land on a super huge planet and for those, I imagine ropes will mater ALOT.

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Scrolls Launch Event

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Start: Mon - June 3, 2013

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Scrolls on Web

Mojang's latest game is dropping open beta on June 3rd. $20 and launching on Mac and PC.

http://scrolls.com/game

Are you going to pick this one up?

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jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/27/2013 at 05:40pm

Picking this up on day one. If there is a way I can share my username with you in game so we can try out a match I will share it with you all so we can play a game that night if we want.

Chowda wrote on 05/28/2013 at 04:35pm

This actually looks pretty cool. I'll pick it up based on the trailer and the fact it's made by mojang!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/28/2013 at 04:53pm

Totally. Plus. They need the money.

/rimshot

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/03/2013 at 05:23pm

I believe the game just launched. But the site is very slow right now :D

Chowda wrote on 06/03/2013 at 08:21pm

Alright I've purchased and set my profile name: Chowda
Now waiting so I can get home and get this installed!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/03/2013 at 10:51pm

I got my profile setup and play a game over lunch. Its fun.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 01:01am

So far played a few matches after work and I really dig it. Still building up a strategy that beats Easy most of the time. That said, playing against even is pretty fair as far as decks go, they just employ some dumb strategy. Apparently I do too, as I win about 70% of the time.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 01:01am

Not sure how you add people to your friends list in game to challenge.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 06/04/2013 at 01:04am

30 more minutes and I'll be on my way home to download. This day is dragging like a wet sack of clothes.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 06/04/2013 at 04:15am

I've been trying to buy this all evening, but the store won't load :(. Guess they're doing really well!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 04:16am

Wow. Yeah i bet. :D

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 05:33am

After playing quite a few matches I really like the game. It seems saving up for the scrolls pack at 1000 gold is the way to go as opposed to getting a random card at a time.

What do you guys think of Scrolls?

Chowda wrote on 06/04/2013 at 05:06pm

I think it's fun, I like it so far. I'm sad there appears to be no friending system. I also saved up and bought the 1000 gold pack as well.

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