Don't Starve Together

Don't Starve Together

Seras Victoria, The Fledgling Vampire (DST Compatible!)
RedMattis  [developer] 4 Feb, 2016 @ 1:06pm
State of the Mod
Since I get this question a lot I figured I'd create a topic.

Regarding updates and creating new characters:
I do try to keep this mod playable for the latest updates, and I'd love to create more mod characters. Feel free to report bugs. Eventually I'll get around to fixing at least the nasty ones.


Current situation though:
While I really do like (and still play) Don't Starve I feel the fantasy survival could be more fun designed differently. The same coincidentally goes for Minecraft's and other similar games' survival elements.

I work the better part of the day as a game developer (for one of the well-known AAA-companies). This does means that I often work a bit of overtime and mostly spend my time coding a tiny part of a colossal game.

Current Plans
A) I want to create a fantasy survival game incorporating my various design ideas.

B) I spend enough time digging through and fixing other peoples' code at work already. :p

The Other Project
...For this reason I've been making a game from scratch in using the Unity engine which I plan to release for free once it gets to a fun-and-playable pre-alpha stage.

Since I've got a project like that running it feels hard to motivate spending to much time on modding instead of, you know, actually getting somewhere with the game.

Reason I haven't realeased my game already is that there is not much to do at the moment aside from jumping around with the characters, try out the combat system, or admire how I've clearly spent time coding brea- er, softbody physics (I'm an ex-technical animator!). The AI for the NPCs is also fairly sophisticated, but there isn't much for them to do either at the moment.

As for my ideas? Imagine something conceptually similar to Don't Starve which rewards you for making multiple bases and even lets you hire NPCs to turn them into settlements. All NPCs, friends or not, play by the same rules as you and will also forage for food, hunt whatever they consider prey when hungry (could be you!), etc.

With all that said:
I don't plan on abandoning the mods, but for now I'm mostly focused on getting a fun-but-limited Pre-Alpha working. After that I may take some hours to update and add new features to Seras f.ex. :dsham:
Last edited by RedMattis; 4 Feb, 2016 @ 1:10pm
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Goflame 4 Feb, 2016 @ 1:17pm 
It sounds amazing and I can not wait to see how the game will turn out so I wish you luck for that. On the note of characters I would love to see alacard (be funny if he had the abridge lines ) or better yet the op butler walter
Mike Loeven 4 Feb, 2016 @ 2:33pm 
So far only two issues i found with the mod Nightvision does not work during the day in caves

and she really needs the harkonnen its litterally her signature weapon
http://img05.deviantart.net/8421/i/2007/217/b/7/seras_with_harkonnen_by_zabuuza.jpg

also some nazi zeplins would be nice for target practice :)
Last edited by Mike Loeven; 4 Feb, 2016 @ 2:41pm
RedMattis  [developer] 4 Feb, 2016 @ 2:47pm 
Originally posted by Mike Loeven:
So far only two issues i found with the mod Nightvision does not work during the day in caves

and she really needs the harkonnen its litterally her signature weapon
http://img05.deviantart.net/8421/i/2007/217/b/7/seras_with_harkonnen_by_zabuuza.jpg

also some nazi zeplins would be nice for target practice :)
I'll take a look at the nightvision next time I'm fixing her.

Nah, I'll give her the original Harkoonen ofc! http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/fe7587747e984734a5323b8c93debbbc/kenneth-mcmillan-dune-1984-d5rft5.jpg
Cloud 5 Feb, 2016 @ 1:18am 
If you do include features for her like Harkoonen, please release it as a buffed version (separate mod) xD. Totally epic indeed, but not for everyone.

Anyway, just from your work on Seras I'm looking forward to your game, and I'll definitely keep it in mind for the future.
Mike Loeven 14 Mar, 2016 @ 2:11pm 
walter just casually walks through the world and anything that comes near him gets instadismembered ;)

@RedMattis I forgot about the old dune movie..... and now her guns ""spirit"" makes total sense :)

But seriously get that ♥♥♥♥♥ a cannon !!

oh and replace hound attacks with armed ghouls !!
Last edited by Mike Loeven; 14 Mar, 2016 @ 2:16pm
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