I've been following the game's development for years, and one of the coolest things about that is seeing how those awesome creatures with all those fluid animations and art basically start as boxes and circlesthe art in this remind me hearth of darkness so much, love it....
I update this thread whenever the devs post something new in their devlogSo are there other places that are more up to date? I'm not a backer but I checked the KS page and the last update was in December. It seems like they're still hard at work on it though.
Edit: Oh I see their Twitter is alive and well. Cool.
Yeah, here's the Humble link.I need this game in my veins.
It looks so damn creepy yet epic, depending on if slugcat can make friends. So I seen a blue headed lizard trying to run from white headed lizards trying to eat it, if you saved the blue headed lizard, will it not be a dick to you? Or will it be ungrateful and still try to eat you?
Getting this on Steam.
Edit: Can you still get Alpha gameplay at all? I'm really wanting to try this. But I might just have to wait for when it eventually comes out which I hope is soon.
Yeah, the's the Humble link.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/rainworld_earlyaccess_soundtrack/FpSDLkj8s
Preorder + alpha access + soundtrack upon release
The available alpha is quite old, at least a year, only a few regions, no music or sound effects, less advanced AI and only a few species. But the animations, basic movement, basic combat and interactions are all there, and you can tweak the txt file if you want to, say, set up a lizard battle royale or flood a pool with 500 leeches
The OST will be the 10 layers that act as the dynamic music, plus 130 regular tracks
As for the other question, yeah the idea the dev is going for with the AI. They have personalities and they remember, and not just the lizards
Definitely a spider-deer...
If I recall, it's arrow keys to move, Z to jump, X to grab/throw. Not sure which is for slow-moSo I bought the humble bundle preorder and now I have the Rain World alpha. Neat! Except here's a big problem:
They show a goddamn X-Box controller and its commands, so I have to basically figure out the controls on my own, in a limited amount of time before the rain comes. Why the hell is this? I'm basically just randomly typing keys and see what they do. Is there anywhere that has a keyboard control layout I can look at so I can actually see how to move around? Also going from sneak mode to regular running mode feels super goddamn clunky on a keyboard, so I'm not surprised a controller is recommended. Especially if you enter each new area automatically in "stealth" mode.
If I recall, it's arrow keys to move, Z to jump, X to grab/throw. Not sure which is for slow-mo
Also if you die, don't instantly restart. Part of the fun is watching lizards duke it out for your tasty corpse
But yeah, it's a year-old alpha with a rudimentary menu.
If you want to mess around, you can go find the txt file in the game folder, and can tweak things. How long the rain cycle is, which room you start in, spawn spears and rocks and different species. The room names/pics are in another subfolder.I was pressing space to jump, I'll experiment a little bit. I was doing a bit of keyboard rolling and accidentally got a command prompt to show up and I was able to select various enemies. Not sure how to work it. Thanks for the info.
If you want to mess around, you can go find the txt file in the game folder, and can tweak things. How long the rain cycle is, which room you start in, spawn spears and rocks and different species. The room names/pics are in another subfolder.
Your moveset is quite versatile, but I don't remember if that alpha has the additional moves. Main one: if you hold down for a sec or two, you notice the slugcat kind of tense up in its crouched position. Then you can lunge in that direction. Lets you make extra far leaps
And then watch the most recent PAX gameplayFirst is an early prototype of the lizards and ends with a battle between lizards over the player's corpse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnthCU1P1Ow
Second shows a bit more of stealth and evasion and better animated lizards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QnWjkKgwdw
Third is some slightly more complete gameplay with two players evading various kinds of lizards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV7HNKWeHVQ
Fourth is two players working together to trick, ambush, and kill a lizard with spears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYTIxHQ3jk
None of it is scripted
Well, fighting should always be a last resort until you're more comfortable. Just like how a mouse wouldn't try to fight off a gecko. Stealth, fleeing, and using your agility are your best options. Actually your best weapon is the ecosystem itself. Use the species against each other. You're smart, but you're still prey. Play the game with that mindsetYeah, I certainly hope they improved the gameplay. In the alpha anyway it's actually making me regret my purchase. There's simply no way to effectively fight off the lizards without access to multiple spears, especially in cramped environments when you can't easily out maneuver them. If they decide to camp a pipe entrance to where your bats are they can effectively block progress. Don't leave the area? Starve to death. Take the pipe to go find bats? Instantly pop out of the pipe into a lizard's mouth and die instantly.
Incredibly frustrating. Thankfully I've seen the dev posts about them lightening up on the game difficulty, at least as far as the lizards are concerned, and they won't be as hyper aggressive or persistent.
Also in the Alpha if a pink lizard grabs you, you don't instantly die, but you can't escape its jaws either. So you either just watch your slugcat get carried off until another colored lizard decides to show up and have a go at you and actually kill you, or you turn the game off.
The lizard aggressiveness was toned down. You have more moves to make you more agile in general and in tight areas
And 80% of them want to eat you?Scariest piece of info: there are 30 to 40 different species in the game
1) The AI has a personality/temperament variable so you might be able to develop a "friendly" relationship with a predator if you've saved it from other predators, stuff like that. So the world isn't so black and whiteAnd 80% of them want to eat you?
I believe they're using javascript in Unity
The past weeks/months/lifetimes have been spent testing and improving the PS4 build with our porting team, Carbon Games. Things are looking REAL NICE
Its pretty crazy though: Joar is in Seoul right now, Carbon is in London, and Adult Swim is in Atlanta. I'm in Boston organizing everything, and never sleeping because as soon as one crew calls it a day, another timezone/day begins! But everything is moving along quite nicely.
For international peeps, it's official that we'll be releasing in a few languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese; which im very very excited about. I never expected things to get this big.
We plan on doing Asian languages eventually, but localization is going to take quite a bit for that and we'll have to redo our text system to accommodate, so it'll be down the line a bit.
Another cool thing now that content production is wrapped up is that I can start focusing on PR/media stuff.
For some that sounds like dirty words I know, but what I mean by it is putting together cool media to tease on the lead up to release. We're planning on a bunch of trailers showcasing different regions, gif campaigns that follow little narratives, "music videos" showcasing some of our favorite tunes in context, wallpapers and teaser art from Del.
Super super psyched to get into all of that! (Especially since the last few months have been a tedious bug-testing hellscape, haha!)
So is that a mouth or a nose?
The game is quite large, and the only way for me to do a proper test is to "speed run" the game and take notes on performance issues, shader problems, wonkiness. I say "speed run" it in quotes because the fastest I, the person who made every room and region and know all the secrets and shortcuts, have been able to play to the win condition (skipping 3 regions!) is 8hrs. And that is ignoring all the narrative stuff and endgame content of course