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Post by brianblack on May 19, 2011 13:12:11 GMT -5
I know i've seen both cheesecake and atlas playing this. I've been watching tons of youtube videos from the developer (http://www.youtube.com/user/demilogic) and it looks much more item heavy than minecraft (although merge these two games and it'd be freakin' sweet. hell, just give me the grappling hook!).
I'm inclined to get this. But I don't know much about the multiplayer aspect of this; are people getting servers, or just using their own computers as servers? How easy is it to join with other people? Can I join some of you noble types who've purchased already for multiplaying item crafting - bomb throwing - giant eye killing nonsense?
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Post by thechurch on May 19, 2011 18:08:46 GMT -5
I'm planing on buying it and would absolutely be up for some play.
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Post by pneuma08 on May 20, 2011 19:01:55 GMT -5
I was talking with Xadera and he said it was more like an RPG with Minecraft elements than a strict Minecraft-like game. I'm sure he could elaborate.
It sounds interesting, at least worth a try.
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Post by xadera on Jun 2, 2011 15:05:58 GMT -5
Oh, oops. This may be too late, but yeah, I can answer your questions.
You basically make a character (or more than one). The character's gear and inventory stay with the character and will travel with you to whatever map you go into, whether it's single player or multiplayer, though chests and the like will stay behind with the map (so a common practice is to make a single player map solely for storing stuff).
Terraria is set up so players can start their own servers. You open up an instance of Terraria, go to multiplayer -> start server, and that will create/use a map to make the server. Then you Alt+Tab to shrink it down and start up a second instance of Terraria and go to multiplayer and join your own IP (so you connect to the first instance). Typing "local" should work, though it hasn't for me. And from there, everyone else just joins your IP as well.
Running a server isn't that resource-heavy. I think simply playing Minecraft alone uses up more than both instances. However, you still need to be able to have an open line for people to connect to. If you recall people being unable to join your games in Warcraft 3 or whatever, then that means you probably can't. You will want to use Hamachi to set up a LAN between the people connecting, which is actually really really simple (the program is like 5 mb and uses up very little resources and sets itself up with a couple of clicks).
And yeah, like I told Pneuma, it's not really comparable with Minecraft. It lacks the immersion or creativity, and building is simply a pain. It's more about the exploration to find cool items and gearing up to fight more and more difficult enemies. Ie, it's basically an RPG with a sandbox in 2D. Eventually you do get to a point where you have everything and you've killed everything and you have nothing to do, but the creator seems to be updating the game every week or so with newer content for people to find and abuse, so it isn't a waste.
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Post by brianblack on Aug 16, 2011 12:03:32 GMT -5
Speaking of this game:
I'm looking into throwing up a server, as it's not very resource intensive. I'm super-ridiculous busy this week, so it may end up being next week. I'll put the details up when I've gotten everything running all pretty like.
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