Unfinished: RimWorld 08/03/2016

In a world of rims..

Not to be confused with Rimmer World.

I wonder what kind of jobs they've got in that world.

This game looks neat.

@humanity: ... of course I read that in his voice.

Initially I assumed this was developed by Introversion because it looks a lot like Prison Architect.

Crazy how close this looks to Prison Architect? Hell, I thought I heard the same sounds being used. I had to check to see. For anyone interested, this is from the developer.

I drew some inspiration from PA. Moreso from its own inspiration, Dwarf Fortress.

We don't share any tools. Chris at IV has his own tech foundation; I built this one on Unity.

But they do look somewhat similar; that's my fault. I'm not a good enough artist to come up with a really good original look. There are only so many ways to render characters on a tiny grid without using animations.

I hope the differences between the game will be enough for people to look past the aesthetic similarities. And if I get some funding at some point I can get an artist to help develop a more unique look.

I do think the similarities are skin-deep. In gameplay the game resembles DF much more than PA.

looks soooo much like prison architect visually.

Can you find a job on this rimworld?

You can use tilesets on DF for your 'graphics'. Also this seems to take a lot of stuff from DF and integrates some of the external Plug-in stuff (Like Therapist) into the game. Which is cool.

I'm a little disappointed that this wasn't a 1 hour 20 minute vinny quicklook :(

Looking forward to checking this out. Thanks for the quick look!

What a strange update for Prison Architect.

My thoughts exactly, every time I her about this game my mind goes there.

@kantele: it reminds me of the volcano movies ( Volcano, Dante's Peak), or the asteroid movies(Armageddon, Deep Impact).

One of the main ways this is not dwarf fortress: no Z-levels

@drewbert: I'm not sure if you know this, but in the "work" tab, if you press the red X in the corner, all of the green chechmarks will turn into numbers (1-4, 1 being the highest priority, 4 being the lowest) and you can set each colonist's work priority. So you can have a guy with research as his number 1 priority, but he'll still be able to pick up other tasks if there is nothing to research. Prioritizing will save you from having to check and uncheck different tasks.

Drew is the hero we need.

Yes, that turns me off a bit. But I still might try this.

@johnnydangerroom: Go back in time to when I was playing Dwarf Fortress extensively, and that's actually exactly like Dwarf Fortress. Man that was a while ago.

Visual similarities aside, Rimworld seems neat! I do like the more "light-hearted" graphical style rather than the often-grim, or 2d-platformer, style of other games in the genre. I'll put it on my Wishlist and keep an eye on it.

EDIT: I like the music in general, but hearing soothing folk-guitar tunes while gunning down a bloodthirsty raider is a bit...odd.

Seeing that Drew had made all those walls and furniture out of steel was painful.

Dwarf Fortress is not that hard to get into. It may seem daunting because of the complexity of depth and multitude of mechanics, but the toughest wall for me to break was the archaic keyboard-driven UI.

It has graphics too, there are a lot of tilesets to choose from.

RimWorld? Wait, is GiantBomb covering hardcore pornography now?
(Yes, I know that's the most obvious joke, but somebody had to make it.)

I started playing this after Drew mentioned it on the Bombcast and I'm loving it. I'm finding it really hard even on basebuilder mode. I've probably had like 10 colonies get completely destroyed so far, but every time I do a little better. Winter is incredibly harsh to get through. I would love a guide on how to be most efficient and grow fastest, but I'm not really interested in spending hours watching lets plays.

The soundtrack for this game sounds oddly familiar to a couple of other games.
One of the songs has a Diablo 1 town-music style guitar string going on, another song sounds like it came straight out of Ragnarok Online, yet another one sounds like something straight out of the Starcraft 1 Terran campaign.

And holy shit, Drew really needs to figure out about the notifications :D

This game is brilliant. I bought in just after the Kickstarter ended and jump back in every few months to see what's changed.

The dynamic "storyteller" aspect is clever and definitely makes for interesting "comeback" stories. Same goes for individual colonists each having their own story of sorts, and I've actually found myself responding emotionally when someone gets clipped in combat, marries another colonist, or has to undergo some medical operation. Someone dying is a huge blow and you definitely feel it.

As usual with these types of games, part of the fun is watching all your hard work burn to the ground and learning from it.

If you're put off by Prison Architect vibes, you're missing out.

A Megatherium is a giant sloth.

@larmer: at the risk of "spoiling" you can find some neat set ups that force attackers through traps. I would suggest check the hallway at this moment https://youtu.be/VSmWthmsKd8?t=358, your guys take the doors, baddies will run across the traps

Winter can be rough, build yourself a fridge and plant more food than you think you need. Harvesting berries can be good for the first winter too.

@drewbert All that steel just east of the colon marked as forbidden... Click the cargo pod notifications to see all the free supplies that have crashed to earth

If this is a more polished and fully featured version of Gnomoria, then I'm probably going to adore it. DF almost seems pretentious with how inaccessible it attempts to make itself.

Please don't see this comment as an opportunity to tell me that I just don't understand Dwarf Fortress and it needs to be that arcane and obtuse with how many systems it simulates. I want a game, not a fictional-civilizational history simulator.

this game is lots of fun ive never liked survival base building stuff but when a lover burns down the research lab and shoots the family dog and her husband has to knife her and gets shot by another colonist protecting the dog an you realize your only medic was her and she is now dead and half your crew bleeds out while waiting to find a wandering medic a bear walks in and kills your incapacitated colony ... thats a good game

I know this game inside and out, been playing it for more than a year now. Let's see how frustrated I can get during this quick look :D

This game is FUCKING. DOPE. I've put in something like 25 hours playing, and watched the first 6 parts of Chris Remo's streams of it on the Idle Thumbs twitch stream. It's dense, but super rewarding when you get things humming the way you want, then find a way to deal with whatever disaster they throw at you, like a rampaging squirrel. Don't laugh.

This is SUPER Dwarf Fortress-y but with a much more accessible AI and some of the outside tools like Dwarf Therapist integrated. Very cool, I'll have to pick it up.

I can't manage to put this game down. The first Early Access game I've jumped on prior to release. Glad it's doing so well on Steam.

And to recruit that prisoner Drew you need to click on him in the prisoner room and go to his 'prisoner' tab and select 'chat and recruit.'

I am liking the StarCraft Terran-like music.

I'm 30 hours into the game now, and it's growing on me. There's a couple irritating nitpicks I have with it, but ALPHA. Hopefully they patch those up soon.

@luck702: thing with DF is that for all the stupidly intricate stuff you can do, you actually don't have to do 98% of it, you can easily get by with the minimum possible, make food and drink for your dwarves, provide quarters for em, make a pretty dining room and have a well equipped military, done!

The effing thing with it is that god forsaken UI, it makes the whole thing seem 100 times more difficult than it really is.

Still trying to beat the devil daggers score btw :P

Tired of the Free-orgies....??

Well then I guess it is on to Rim World.

@casinoghostt: Exactly what I was thinking, awesome tunes

I should probably watch a few more videos before I decide to get this (assuming I can get past the YT personalities). This wouldn't be the first time a GB QL made me want to get a game, only to end up not liking it. I guess if nothing else I could always get a refund.

@drewbert Don't tell me there's a character called Kimmy in this QL and you didn't drop any Kimi quotes...

All this video does for me is make me want to get back into Dwarf Fortress.

I can see this game's place though. Simpler and more focused at the cost of depth, which is a trade-off I'm sure most people will be okay with.

@nethlem: Would not be surprised to know that royalty free music is out there for these small project games and that there is some overlap. Several recent small indie game quicklooks have had similar music.

@bill_mcneal: i watched a indian guy i believe who was very calm and concise and absokutelh loved it and learned virtually every system within a couple hours he doesnt try to be funny so its a good watch

found it fenik gaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03l-JijOAYw

very good multi part tutorial

Drew is really noob at this game.

when you are at a point when you have people specializing making art to sell to passing star ships to get slaves....

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you can also see how he makes communal sleeping areas, they don't like that. And why have the farms like mile away for no reason, just wasted walking time. Buildings pitch black, no lights or power...

pro tip, put a grow light in the midle of your farm of what ever, doubles the grow rate. If you have just completely tallentles guy on team, just assign them for carrying shit, it gives all the talented guys more time for doing their stuff.

this game is also so complex, that it's getting nuts, the people have relationships, and pets, etc

the creator of this game keeps adding new features every month..

oh god, "seems pretty polished for early access" this is probably like 400 version, and the game has been around for years and years....

But not the one we deserve.

@brad@drewbert Dwarf Fortress actually has had the ability to have "graphics" for quite a long time. It uses tilesets to replace the ASCII characters with images. The "Lazy Newb Pack" for Dwarf Fortress is a popular pack that includes some tilesets by default.

There are even 3D visualizers people have made that you can run side-by-side with the game. Recently they've even added the ability to play the game in Stonesense, one of the more popular 3D visualizers. Just wanted to share, the ASCII seems to scare some people away, but it's an incredibly easy problem to solve.

Drew's really gonna regret having 6x2 storage areas. Real soon. This game's pretty great, it's a ways from Dwarf Fortress insanity but I'm having a good time with it.

Man, I would watch Drew (and Brad) for hours playing this game xD Premium content!

@fightingchance: Terrarium and KSP had some of the same music.