Thread 718094139

*ruins an entire generation of pixel-art indie games*

How did it ruin it? Because they all tried to copy?

>>718094139 (OP)
I don't play this game but respect the creator for making a game hed want to play especially when harvest moon has been such absolute shit for as long as I can remember

More like saved.

>>718094583
yes

The only one that came close to me personally was Graveyard Keeper, but the end-game grind for skill points was atrocious, plus no romance options. In farming sims you gotta have your farmers wife.

>>718094139 (OP)
Ape didnt do anything though, all the drooling retards trying to copy it are the problem.

>>718094139 (OP)
Emily!

>>718094139 (OP)
go back to your other thread where you were getting flayed for repeated shit opinions

>>718095419
but there hasn't been a good stardew clone yet

>>718095419
Every pixel-art indie post-2016 had to check the "cozy farming sim with quirky NPCs" box like it was a legal requirement. It went from genuine homage to outright cargo cult. Doesn’t mean the original was bad, but the dev scene milked that formula bone dry.

>>718097080
I would hazard a guess that 90% of the games made even back then are still in early access

In my spare time I'm working on a basic farming game with the twist being all the townsfolk are assholes and will actively try to sabotage your farm so you have to fight them off.

Id like to make an 18+ farming game because I'm bored of safe "comfy" games. I want a game someone tries to rape your daughter or she sneaks off with a boy and you force the guy to marry her via shotgun.

Let's bring back the 90s attitude era

>>718094139 (OP)
>hundreds of mods to make characters and their sprites not look like dogshit
>last i remember there's 0 for making the player sprite better
but y

>>718098018
Because the player's sprite is a whole ass character creator

>>718094139 (OP)
Its funny how SV became more popular than the game series it was inspired from

which game started the trend of indie devs not knowing how perspective works
i like ol' ape if not only for his generosity towards v over the years, but i can't stand the fucked perspective of every top-down indie title.

>>718098071
I would gladly take a better sprite even if it means losing the ability to wear 150 different T-shirt designs

>>718097080
>>718095419
>>718094139 (OP)
It wasn't just indie games. Big devs like Squeenix got in on the farming sim game hype train too.

Those trying to replicate SDV's tone and tenor are like those trying to replicate Earthbound's. You can't just go full LE REDDIT QUIRK CHUNGUS in the writing, you've got to have wit and use the goofiness sparingly while playing it straight.

>>718100037
Harvest Moon died a painful death due to corporate mismanagement.

For me, its Leah

>>718100037
Turns out that you can only fuck up like 15 times before people stop caring.

>>718102518
The choice is Robin, but because you can't marry her you have to settle for Leah.

>>718097080
>say it's cozy
>your game can be boring as fuck but that's okay it's "cozy"

>>718096487
>Ape didn't do anything
40+ million copies later and he's still winning

Sex with Jas

>>718105618
I say this.