KickStarter Serpent in the Staglands Pre-Release Thread

[tuluse]

There is an in-game journal that you write in. You don't need a pen, and it's not outside the game.

 

[dukeofwhales]

Part of whether i like it or not is presence of redundant mandatory larping. It's not like forcing me to write down quests with pen somehow makes the gameplay better or more ''hardcore''. It simply makes it more annoying. It's even worse than forcing your protag to eat and shit because muh realizm. It's activity that is entirely outside of gameplay itself, a forced inconvenience, which makes you spend a lot of times doing something that you weren't expecting to do (instead of actually playing the game). If it's optional, than ok 'fcourse.

I guess the issue is that as a dev, you either create a bare-bones journal ("I need to find X") and allow the player to write down additional details as they like, which is basically just as worthless, or you create a journal which automatically adds clues and info as you find them, which means as a player you don't have to pay attention to the dialogue or environment clues at all because you can just read the important stuff in the journal afterwards.

 

[hemtae]

New kickstarter update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649838104/serpent-in-the-staglands/posts/1107530

 

[Crane]

"Horned Ladies", truly a worthy favored enemy.

 

[Haba]

Man, this game is looking better and better by every screen-shot.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

"Horned Ladies", truly a worthy favored enemy.

Nah, Horned Ladies is the racial bonus, not a favoured enemy.

 

[Crane]

How was I supposed to know with that androgynous portrait? Or can men be ladies in the Staglands? Finally we're seeing some progress in the world of the CRPG, breaking down that oppressive gender binary.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Cyberarmy]

Dat map and loading screens man!

 

[Jagged Appliance]

Looks amazing, here's hoping it's better than PoE, if only for the butthurt.

 

[Sensuki]

I have a feeling a lot of the codex will prefer this to Pillars of Eternity.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Why not both?

After long years filled with decline we are going into second Golder Age of RPGs. I ,for one, will play every sensible RPG in this tide. (even if most of them are RPG lite or half complete)

 

[Sensuki]

I said prefer. This one seems more in the Codexian spirit than the other. I'm sure the PE writing/story will be good though.

 

[Infinitron]

It'll be like KotC and Dragon Age, one is the game people say they prefer, the other is the game they actually play

 

[Bubbles]

A modern example would be Wasteland 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition.

 

[Sensuki]

Well I own one and not the other. Going by the poll the majority here is like that as well.

 

[Merlkir]

Update sounds awesome! The blood runes!!!

...dat font tho.

 

[Surf Solar]

What's wrong with the font?

 

[Drowed]

"Pretty", but really hard to read.

 

[dukeofwhales]

Yeah the font could be a little more readable. I imagine it's a deliberate Darklands throwback.

 

[Invictus]

It blows my mind how everything with this game feels just so...right you know? even the things I didnt care much for like the font or the map indicator just fit right in the awesomeness of this game

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

Update sounds awesome! The blood runes!!!

...dat font tho.

Yeah the font could be a little more readable.

Thanks for the feedback — the actual size of the game depends on your monitor's aspect ratio, but is being scaled up 200 or 300 percent. So that map .GIF above for example is what the actual game is being rendered as, which is somewhat limiting for font sizes. There are three font bitmaps being used, a small one for most text (which I can't imagine being much clearer) and the mid and large ones used for titles , names or flavor text. I imagine those are yet the issues.

I'll change them up in 2.0, yell at us in the forums if it still doesn't work well.

Tuluse, I think half the updated mechanics in 2.0 are from your suggestions.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Tuluse, I think half the updated mechanics in 2.0 are from your suggestions.

You mean tuluse :D

 

[Whalenought_Joe]

You mean tuluse :D

Thats him. Thanks!

 

[Photokoi]

I planning to get this game when it comes out rather than play the beta; should I play darklands to appreciate it more in the meantime? I started playing it but it seems overly complicated and just another one of those 80s/90s games with a ton of content to keep you busy (no internet or other things to keep you occupied). I'm not saying it's all random filler material by no means but it seems like I would have to invest myself in it.