Stardew Valley followers, there’s been an replace on the developer’s extremely awaited subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier. However earlier than you get too excited, bear in mind these items take a SquidFest’s value of labor to create.
The farming/role-playing sport’s designer, Eric Barone, who works underneath underneath the alias ConcernedApe, printed a weblog submit on Wednesday checking in about Haunted Chocolatier‘s growth and reminding followers that it takes time to make a sport like this from scratch — and notably solo.
Barone mentioned he’d been engaged on the lately launched Stardew Valley 1.6 replace, initially introduced in April 2023, which meant he needed to bench Haunted Chocolatier for a second as he added new content material and glued bugs. However the developer mentioned he has “created a ‘vertical slice’ of Haunted Chocolatier, essentially a skeleton of the game with most (not all) of its bones in place.”
“It’s been a little sad to see Haunted Chocolatier getting dusty on the shelf… but this is the reality of my situation,” he wrote. “Stardew Valley is a big and popular game, and I have a lot of attachment to it. I also feel a strong sense of duty and obligation to all the people who have bought Stardew Valley over the years, granting me this rare opportunity to be an indie game developer. So it’s hard to ‘let go’ of Stardew, even temporarily, to work on something that isn’t already established and meaningful to people.”
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For followers, Barone shared slightly of the “vertical slice” he is created thus far for Haunted Chocolatier, with screenshots he famous had been “‘work in progress’ and likely to change before release.” Barone is coding the sport himself within the Microsoft platform C# (as Stardew Valley was) and completely from scratch.
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Within the submit, you may see an cute hovering ghost character, a scene exhibiting the titular chocolatier’s residence with rows of greens suggesting that requisite farming ingredient, a scene exhibiting the participant combating off an enormous horde of incoming pink and purple blobs with a sword (Barone has beforehand mentioned the sport can have “a greater focus on combat” than Stardew), a list menu, and two characters (one with purple hair, one blonde).
These are simply the most recent additions to the sneak peeks we have seen in ConcernedApe’s current screenshots which you’ll take a look at on the web site. Plus, this is the early gameplay trailer from 2021 you may nonetheless savour:
Barone defined there can be no preorders, crowdfunding, or early entry of any sort with Haunted Chocolatier, “so I don’t feel a ton of external pressure to finish the game on a timeline. The major source of external pressure is the fact I announced the game kind of early (I had my reasons for doing this), which built up excitement, meaning that if I take a long time, people might become sad. And that is a real pressure to me. But ultimately, I will not release a game unless it is complete and I am very happy with it, and I think that’s what most people would want, anyway.”
Benefit from the snippet and head again to your cauliflowers, of us. It’s going to be right here when it will get right here.
