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Development Progresses: Fruit, The Beach & Elves!

"Fruit trees are a long-term investment for your farm. They don’t need to be watered, but they are expensive to buy, need a lot of space, and require a full year of growth before they’ll produce any fruit. However, once it’s established, your tree will provide you with juicy morsels every day during its fruiting season!

What will you do with your new fruit?

Sell it? Cook with it? Give it to your sweetie?

Throw the pungent little thing into an oak barrel and spend the winter guzzling strong wine? (don’t do that)"

http://stardewvalley.net/mini-dev-update-8/

Continuing Dev. Adventures of Stardew Valley

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ConcernedApe the one man development whirlwind bringing us Stardew Valley has posted another development update. The post covers the addition of flowers and the updated art for tools and player animations.

The game is looking very polished and I can't wait to try this when it ships. As always, when a launch date is announced I will let you know.

http://stardewvalley.net/mini-dev-update-7/

Stardew Valley Greenlit on Steam

Eric Barone, creator of Stardew Valley just Tweeted that Stardew Valley was Greenlit on Steam. Now the upcoming 2D Community Retro Farming Sim will be coming to a familiar platform.

He also dropped a bit of a status update on the games progress as well:

"Still in dev, but I am on a grind to get this game finished, without skimping on anything. I'll let u know soon as I can about release date!"

From the recent Twitch streams I have seen the game looks incredible and am really looking forward to its eventual release. Thanks to everyone that voted.

https://twitter.com/ConcernedApe/status/335104754860568576
http://playstarbound.com/16th-may-progress/
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Recent Stardew Valley Twitch Stream

Tiy, the lead developer of Starbound recently streamed two hours of Stardew Valley on Twitch.tv. If you are interested in checking out how the game looks at this point in developement, head over and check it out.

The game looks great and based on this video looks very close to a release. More on that when it develops.

http://www.twitch.tv/tiyuri/b/399848607

Awemazing Stardew Valley "Month of Graphics"

ConcernedApe just posted a pretty lengthy update about changes he recently made to the upcoming, Stardew Valley.

"I’ve been doing a big “month and a half of graphics”, and I’m finally about done with it. A lot of what I’ve been doing has involved redrawing or touching up older sprites that I wasn’t happy with. The old stuff was passable, but I am so much happier with the new, and I think it really does help breathe life into the valley. It’s funny how a seemingly trivial graphical detail can excite the imagination and evoke a sudden thrill, drawing you into the game world on a much deeper level."

The new art looks very good and I urge you to head over to the blog and... Read All

Stardew Valley Development Updates

Eric Barone has been hard at work on Stardew Valley since our interview with him a while back. I still am very excited about this game and want to let you know how its shaping up:

"I’ve made a bunch of progress on character customization, and I’d like to share some of the results with you! Above, you can see just a few of the many possible combinations for your character. After you’ve created your starting look, there’s nothing stopping you from getting a haircut or changing your outfit in the future. Below is the unfinished character customization screen. You won’t have access to all clothes when you first start your character, but over time you’ll be able to put... Read All

Stardew Valley, A Retro Community Farming RPG

When I first saw the video for Stardew Valley I was excited. A retro styled farming game focusing on the local community, RPG elements and featuring *drumroll* 4 player co-op? Yes please. Since Harvest Moon I haven't seen much surface that advances this kind of game unless you count disappointments like Farmville, which I do not.

The folks behind Stardew Valley released a video showcasing more of the 4 player co-op and it looks epic and you should watch it right now:
http://youtu.be/FJggZec6qqo

In a world featuring the next Call of Duty shooter and game sequels that go to 11, its nice to see a game less world cataclysmically epic and something a bit more simple. Don't get... Read All

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/12/2013 at 05:46am

Voted "yes" for this a little while ago. I could totally go for some peaceful co-op about now.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/12/2013 at 06:15pm

I agree. Totally want to cut down bushes Zelda style and tend to my farm. Its pretty much what I do in Minecraft for the most part. No huge ambitions to build the Pyramids, just like tending my farm and such.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/13/2013 at 12:36am

You had me at retro community farming RPG.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/13/2013 at 01:10am

Totally :)

The developers agreed to an interview, if you have any questions you want asked put them here and ill ship them over.

Planning on sending the questions tomorrow!

Timogorgon Member wrote on 02/13/2013 at 06:13pm

This obviously is a take on the whole Harvest Moon series, but that scene in the cave kind of looks a little secret of mana-ish. You should ask what games kind of games they were inspired by and/or hoped to emulate while making this one. :)

Also, the video showed off quite a bit of combat. (Is that an orc at 1:24?) But I noticed the list of skills they mentioned don't seem to relate at all to combat. Will combat be a major part of the game, and if so, how will your character improve their fighting ability?

As far as the co-op goes, can they provide some more details about how that will be handled? Will co-op work over a LAN or will it be internet only? Will the other players just be dropped into your town as visitors or will you all exist within the same town?

scrypt Supporter wrote on 02/13/2013 at 08:02pm

I haven't researched it at all, but I'm wondering if there are any story elements, or adventure objectives.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/13/2013 at 09:27pm

Ill add that to my list, thanks guys!

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 02/14/2013 at 01:22am

Ok added your stuff to the list, shipping it off later tonight or tomorrow morning.

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