![]() ![]() I've had high hopes for Iron Harvest and it clearly went for the casual/single player market and did pretty well, but not well enough.ġ. Risk is huge and required investment is enormous. And that's a VERY hard thing to do for an indie studio. So for a new RTS to compete it has to be better than Starcraft 2 in multiplayer and gameplay or at least in storytelling. Single player games that don't achieve cult status - are finished on the market after the first month. But they don't engage with the game enough to justify years of gameplay development, balancing, innovative mechanics - they mostly want nice cutscenes and good graphics and beliveable dialogs and plot.Īnd most of them won't even finish the game. The only remaining market for RTS are so called "casuals" that want single player experience. So what happens is - people check out the new game, and either get bored (it's too similar and worse) or get discouraged (it's too different to bother learning). So new games in the same genre have to compete against a game that was made by Blizzard in 2010 and constantly developed ever since. With multiplayer games people can play the same title forever if it's deep enough. In my opinion Starcraft 2 killed RTSes (just like Dota 2 and LOL killed MOBAs). This means there's an increasing amount of talent available in the wider gaming community for organizing tournaments and commentating. * The game randomizer community keeps building new community-run tournaments and fan commentated races. Indie RTS costs will go down as people experiment with that. It's very high-production pixel art, but more importantly it's only one unit facing. * Tooth And Tail managed to look great while using pixel art. * People /are/ trying to make indie RTS games, more than I've ever seen before. I'm pretty sure that crowd is all in Roblox or modded Minecraft these days. * Even back in the heyday of RTS, everyone I knew played custom maps rather than the actual RTS. * Streamers rely on their ability to self-commentate, but nobody can play an RTS while talking. It's not like platformers where the world has accepted we can get away with pixel art forever. There hasn't been a breakout indie RTS, and nobody has established a default cheap art style for these. * RTS games are still pretty expensive to make well. ![]() It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and you may disagree with whether large studios should act this way, but that doesn't matter, because the observable fact is they do. * There hasn't been a huge RTS hit in ages, so large studios aren't going to push large chunks of cash into them. ![]() (Also, multiplayer WORKED but we had to host our own private battle.Some problems I'd note for any resurgence of the RTS genre: Let me know if you guys get this running, i'd be very interested for it to see the light of day again. ANyway, I dug a little and also found a bunch of posts on campaign creations about this infoceptor WC3TC. Pretty sure they used stargraft to patch the game from starcraft 1.07? Fuck I can't believe I remember some of this shit. I'm pretty sure the mod was never DMCA'd it just died out as the updates stopped coming (and starcraft patches broke it), but I can dig around and see if I have any backups of it all the same.ĮDIT: Followup is the 2.2 version of the mod, 26 megs The best part was, over all this total conversion was working with most starcraft custom maps. It was great, they used sprite art from diablo 1/2 warcraft 2/3 and a bunch of custom sprites too. They converted the races terran to human, protoss to orc, and zerg was demon/undead. Oh yeah, I remember this - used to be an infoceptor project (an old fan site from way back in the day) Filter your r/wow experience with this guide!.Murloc Mondays (New Players Q&A) Reset Recruitment Midweek Mending Tanking Thursday Firepower Friday (DPS) Saturday Achievement and Loot Thread Skirmish Sundays (PvP) Blizzard Subredditsĭiablo - Starcraft - Hearthstone - Heroes of the Storm - Overwatch - WC3 - Classic WoW - Mystery -įrequently Asked Questions about Dragonflightįrequently Asked Questions. Undermine Exchange - useful resource for goldmakers./r/classicwowtbc - World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. ![]() /r/classicwow - World of Warcraft: Classic./r/transmogrification - show us your style./r/woweconomy - goldmaking discussion & theory./r/wownoob - if you are a noob or want to help a noob.WoW Related Discords Dragonflight Patch 10.2.5 is Live! Welcome to /r/wow, a subreddit about the video game World of Warcraft ! Chat ![]()
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