This week your intrepid heroes embark on a Starbound hipster-pixel journey ..in spaaaaaaaaace!
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Game: Starbound
Webzone: playstarbound.com
Devel: Chucklefish Games
Engine: Custom (Made in C++)
Price: $14.99/€13.99/2 Rai Stones
Wazzat: In Starbound, you take on the role of a character who’s just fled from their home planet, only to crash-land on another. From there you’ll embark on a quest to survive, discover, explore and fight your way across an infinite universe.
Makes with the working
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Shiny / Sounds
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Hipster, pixel, graphics.
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Terreria did it, so no points for originality
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Gets the job done, but no bonus points
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Music is nice and smooth, most of the times you can’t even tell it’s there.
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Graphics are meh! Like Jordan said, it’s Terraria all over again.
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Bonus chair for the awesome background noise soundtrack, each planet/biome has its own and it does its job at immersing you in the game.
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Control
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Yeah, it “controls” but clicking on the right top clicky buttons are a PITA unless it’s windowed.
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Controls are reasonable enough
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My one gripe is that they tend to be all over the keyboard. Closer to WASD == Good
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Are you seriously not letting people reassign their keyboard mappings? Really?!
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Guess they’re working on it: http://imgur.com/LgT7Yfv
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They have until Saturday to get a better score from me.
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FUN
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2D Minecraft in spaaaace
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Interesting premise, but I find I suffer from minecraft fatigue syndrome whilst playing it
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Multiplayer is a bit stupid. No steam integration, no clear indicator that you need to go to the game folder and launch the server executable from there
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound ~/.steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/starbound_server
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The game is actually fun. I spent almost 8 hours on it in one sitting, playing with a couple of guys I met on twitch tv.
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Problems arose when we needed to fight and fine motor controls became a necessity. Having to use my right hand on WASD meant I got killed in a matter of seconds.
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I’d like to give this game at least 3 chairs, but if I can’t rebind my controls to something I can manage with it only gets 1.
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