One of one of the most wholesome tales concerning Stardew Valley’s 1.6 upgrade launch was that the designer behind the farming sim’s most precious modding task, Stardew Valley Expanded, aided make it occur. And yet that could not have actually become if FlashShifter had not dropped on difficult times after an unfavorable brush with cars and truck burglary.
Speaking to GamesRadar+, FlashShifter clarifies the collection of occasions that led them to formally service the game they had actually been modding. Both they and Stardew Valley maker Eric ‘Concerned Ape’ Barone reside in Seattle, however, while it was constantly a “dream” to service the game, FlashShifter “never asked him for anything” as they “just figured it was off-limits because he’s a guy who does everything himself.”
“I had always wanted to work for him after modding his game for a year,” they claim. “It was always kind of a dream of mine, but I never asked him even though we both live in Seattle. The odds of that are kind of crazy. The guy who has the largest mod for your game also lives in the same city as you.”
Things would certainly transform, however, after FlashShifter dropped on difficult times.
“Sometime last year, I kind of ran into some financial trouble,” they claim. “My car got stolen. I had to get a new one and I was living off my mod income, which was Patreon and PayPal donations.
“Having your automobile taken – I really did not have burglary insurance policy, I was a moron – I was type of screwed. I type of worried and I wound up conference with him individually at his workplace and I asked him if he would certainly employ me. He recognized that I was, yet I never ever asked him for anything due to the fact that I type of simply figured it was out-of-bounds due to the fact that he’s an individual that does whatever himself. Why would certainly he require somebody like me? But I asked him and he did wind up practically right away employing me a number of days later on afterwards. I’ve been helping him since and likewise seeing to it that my mod awaits the substantial upgrade.”
FlashShifter’s work on Stardew Valley covered a range of content. “Essentially, my work involved primarily simply doing what I’ve constantly been doing, yet extra in a main ability,” they claim.
