Castle Story - Indie "Minecraft" RTS
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 20:08
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It's supposed to be very early in development still but I noticed already they have been paying attention to little details, like the animations when the little guys climb up or jump down from single blocks. And the day-night cycles are cool, and the block physics of course.
And they did a great job of making management as smart as possible. You create general 'tasks' like building or mining and then assign the little guys to those tasks, so its easy to add more or take some off. Pathfinding also already looks pretty good.
Other nice little things too, like how terrain smoothed on the top instead of being 100% blocky like minecraft. Lots of polish already.
Doesn't seem to be much in the way of actual RTS gameplay at the moment, although I suspect this will always be geared to casual players, as a building of your base literally brick by brick will probably be too unwieldy for competitive play. Given the sandboxy nature of the game singleplayer will probably prove to be entertaining, even if there isn't much in the way of plot.
It's supposed to be very early in development still but I noticed already they have been paying attention to little details, like the animations when the little guys climb up or jump down from single blocks. And the day-night cycles are cool, and the block physics of course.
And they did a great job of making management as smart as possible. You create general 'tasks' like building or mining and then assign the little guys to those tasks, so its easy to add more or take some off. Pathfinding also already looks pretty good.
Other nice little things too, like how terrain smoothed on the top instead of being 100% blocky like minecraft. Lots of polish already.
Doesn't seem to be much in the way of actual RTS gameplay at the moment, although I suspect this will always be geared to casual players, as a building of your base literally brick by brick will probably be too unwieldy for competitive play. Given the sandboxy nature of the game singleplayer will probably prove to be entertaining, even if there isn't much in the way of plot.
