Genre: RPG
Publisher: Not declared
Developer: Tolfram von Fink
Multiplayer: Internet
Platform: PC
Game site: open
Exit date: Spring 2012
Marcus Persson with his minecraft, which earned terrible millions, today has turned into a herald of a new religion, whose main postulate reads: “People like to build and dig!"And here dozens of believers rush to make their own simulators of miners and builders with an open world and simple pixel graphics. And what can Marcus present them, if he himself borrowed the idea of a megauspey game from a little-known indie project Infiminer? However, if you creatively process the ideological basis of Minecraft itself, you can also turn out something interesting. For example, Cube World.
Our interlocutor
Tolfram von Fink
Job title : the author of the idea and the head of the development of Cube World.
Previous place of work : Tungsten was engaged in programming and design; Cube World – his first serious project.
The editors about the tungsten : How to find out if your interlocutor is indie? Easy to be simple. Instead of evading the answer, as is usually the case with major publishers, Tunglafram arranged for us a detailed tour of his project, answering in detail all our 30 questions.
Angularity
The game takes place in the world of a typical “high fantasy”, where there is magic, elves, swords, locks and dungeons. We have to explore the big world, traveling through forests, snowy fields, the lands of the dead and volcanic wastelands.
“There will be a plot in the game, but your main task is to explore the world, look for rare objects, treasures and perform quests,” says Tolfram von Fink, the main and only developer of Sube World. Do not wait for some advanced simulation of life from the game. Sube World puts on a simple instinct of the researcher and Manckin, for whom new equipment and levels are more important than an interesting narrative.
[[Bullet]] Despite a simple graphics, the battles are already looking dynamic and spectacular now.
There will be many quests, but all of them belong to one of a few types: NPC support, cave research, treasure search, murder of bosses, stripping dungeons, protecting temples from enemies waves. The only serious element of the epic RPG that the tungsten wants to add to his game is a system of reputation. “There are several kingdoms in this world, and Rollino sister sites, performing quests for them, you will increase your reputation in a particular faction. A higher reputation will open access to some cities and castles, as well as special objects and treasures, ”the author explains.
The role system is simple, but not primitive. At the start, you need to choose one of three standard classes – a warrior, a magician or archer. Everyone will be able to use special techniques in battle. So, the archer will learn to put traps, the warrior – slow down the enemies, and the wizard – hide behind a magic shield.
In the battles, each class uses one standard attack and several super -supervisors, different for each type of weapon. To jump into the air and shoot from onions at once on several enemies or to stern two swords on the ground so that the opponents scatter to the sides, you need to accumulate special energy (strength of the spirit), which arrives during the implementation of standard attacks.
Elven House in the village
In fact, all of the above is a set of standard MMORPG-ruts that is not related to minecraft. It turns out a budget clone World of Warcraft , – But in the budgets, oddly enough, the main feature of Cube World is precisely. “When the development of the project was just beginning, I immediately realized that it would not be possible to draw out the number of unique quests I needed. That is why I decided to turn to procedural generation. Developing this idea, I realized that I could get a truly prolonging gameplay, ”Tolfram explains.
The world of the game is endless, how endless and possibilities for pumping. Your goal is to become even stronger, to find the rarest objects and treasures, to explore as many lands as possible and defeat more and more dangerous bosses. You travel freely around the world, and the further you climb from the start point, the more dangerous the enemies become.
[[Bullet]] defeated enemies here literally scatter on pixels.
The main motivator for research – crafting and pumping equipment. Each type of weapon and armor consists of different materials (metal, bones, obsidian and iron). When collecting cubes of the relevant materials, you can then bite them into objects, improving the characteristics of the latter. In addition, any element of equipment can be dismantled and attributed to a specially trained NPC so that he collects something more valuable for money for money.
If you extract ordinary “ore” directly from the environment, then special cubes that support the power of the spirit fall out of the bosses. They automatically turn on when you carry out a superior: for example, fiery cubes paid in your sword add damage to fire, and ice slows down the enemies. Some bonuses are combined – for example, the unclean power of the spirit (just like that) simultaneously treats the player and increases damage, and the power of wind enhances both the attack and the speed of movement.
Finally, in Cube World you can also build houses. After building a home, it is from there that you will go to search for new adventures, there you can also store the collected trophies and treasures. Unlike Minecraft, for construction it will have to be used not blocks, but, as in Terraria , Different architectural elements: windows, walls, doors and roofs. Each part needs a drawing related to its own special type of architecture (elven, orch, and so on). You can combine any details, but, having built a house in the same style, get a bonus to the characteristics of the hero.
Cube World began in June last year as a small hobby project of one person, but the game grows like on yeast, is overgrown with new details and turns from a banal minecraft clone into a large-scale mmorpg. Now it is at the stage of alpha testing, and almost every day the tungsten adds something new-races, objects, quests. It’s scary to imagine what will happen if he succeeds … After all, an endless world of Warcraft can be infinitely strong.
We will wait?
The project, which began as a Minecraft clone, turns into a large, open RPG with elves, magic, quests and various fractions.
Percent of readiness: 60%
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