On the primary day God created gentle, and noticed that it was good. On the 18th trillionth day he created mods, and noticed that they have been higher. ModDB, a website that serves as a nexus for mods of each flavour possible, has branched into publishing. “Modularity is a new games publishing division”, they are saying, “with a focus on investing in and supporting games that are created by modders, inspired by mods, or have strong modding support themselves.”
They’ve already teamed up with devs Vox Games to launch Meeple Station on Steam Early Access, a cute-looking house station sim styling itself after RimWorld.
ModDB is definitely one arm of DBolical, who also run IndieDB. They’re not storefronts – they’re portals to data and obtain hyperlinks. I don’t know what the DB stands for both, and would reasonably hold having fun with the thriller than discover out for you.
Here’s ModDB announcing Modularity. After the compulsory ‘mods are great and important’ bit, it goes on to say this:
“Modularity is looking for the next generation of games that have the chance to stand tall as mod-focused titles. Games with a fierceless independent streak. Games that dare to do something different. Games that, in finding success, steer the industry in a whole new direction with their creativity, innovation, and strong sense of identity.”
I do like the thought, each as a channel for supporting one of the fascinating points of PC gaming and as a approach of immediately figuring out moddable games. Although that quote is likely to be a tad too grand an introduction to Meeple Station, which appears neat however not instantly genre-defining.
As with Rimworld, inauspicious beginnings flip into concerned and meteoric ends. You’re supposed to construct your base from a lonely bunkhouse right into a “sprawling, multi-levelled station”, the place you possibly can rise up to historically spacey actions like “trade, mining and research”.
The data on the Steam web page appears eager to invoke the sort of cascading failures you see in related sims, the place incompetent engineers may result in airlock failures that might result in suffocation that might result in demise. There are additionally “face-eating space-squids”, which you’ll meet if you happen to strap an engine to your station and go exploring. Good luck with that.
Meeple Station is out there on Steam Early Access for £13/$17/€14.
