The creator of Stardew Valley has briefly put aside engaged on his subsequent game in favour of constructing including extra free content material to the much-beloved farm-o-craft-a-fight-y life sim RPG. Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has been mighty secretive about his subsequent game, not saying what it even is not to mention once we would possibly get to play it, so it stays within the nebulous future. Before he will get again to work on this thriller game, he plans to type a growth workforce to maintain Stardew updates rolling whereas he’s occupied.
Barone just lately started self-publishing Stardew Valley, parting methods with publishers Chucklefish for many variations (they’re nonetheless dealing with the cellular and Switch editions). Barone largely made Stardew by himself, although Chucklefish did the heavy lifting for including multiplayer after launch. Now he can do what he desires with Stardew, I suppose. Which is to make extra of it.
“Now, I believe I’ve said in the past that I wanted to devote all my time to the new game, and I might not work on any new Stardew Valley content. Well, that’s not exactly true,” Barone defined in a blog post.
“While there have been times in the past where I felt burnt out, and maybe even said that I wanted to move on, I always find myself coming back to Stardew Valley. For one, I keep getting new ideas for ways to improve and expand upon the game. This world is so full of potential, I could probably work on it for the rest of my life. There’s also such a wonderful community surrounding the game… and I like making you guys happy. I’m extremely grateful to all of you for supporting my work and creating this wonderful Stardew Valley community. I wouldn’t be where I am today without you. And knowing that there’s still tons of people out there who love the game and would be extremely happy to get new content motivates me to keep working.”
That’s good. So he’s presently engaged on Stardew Valley replace 1.four by himself, one other content material replace, after which he plans to type a workforce to do a whole lot of the work for future updates.
“My hope is that the new team will help take some of the workload off me, so I have enough breathing room to divide my time between my new game and Stardew Valley,” he stated. “I still plan on having a very active role in the future of Stardew Valley, and the originator of all major Stardew Valley decisions and content. And there are many aspects of development which I’ll never be okay with handing over to another, like music or writing.”
What even is that this thriller new game? That could be telling.
“I’ve been deliberately secretive about it because I want to be able to work on it without any pressure for the time being,” Barone stated. “I also want to make sure the concept is fully realised before revealing anything, because once it’s out there, I’m going to have to fully commit to it.”
Making Stardew Valley took Barone 4 years of seventy-hour weeks so: 1) he might take some time; 2) hopefully Stardew’s mega-success means he can afford to work at whichever tempo he pleases.
