"What game are you expecting Black Skylands to be?" - the dev team needs your feedback!

[Antishyr]

Ahoy, captains,

My name is George, I am the community manager of Black Skylands. It's been a great pleasure to be a part of this growing community, which is currently seeing a surge with the Steam Early Access phase steaming at full speed.

I have come to you with a humble request. As the development process continues, our team keeps making improvements to the game based on your ideas, suggestions and reports. It's a huge, huge help: being able to see the bigger picture and keeping the fingers on the pulse of players' expectations is imperative for Hungry Couch Games. That's why we need feedback. That's right - more feedback!

We would like to ask you one simple question:

"What game are you expecting Black Skylands to be?"

Are you looking forward to compelling Skyrim-esque exploration? Captivating Witcher 3-ish narrative and side quests? The Division/Destiny's gear upgrade & management system? Resource hunting, survival and craft of Terraria and Starbound? A hardcore, roguelike-y level of difficulty? Or maybe you want Black Skylands to become a strategy game, much like Stellaris?

Leave your thoughts and suggestions in the comments! ⬇️ Or, if you prefer Discord, join our official server[discord.gg]. We are going through absolutely everything because we want to learn more about what our community expects from us.

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MAY YOU HAVE FAIR WINDS!☁️

Yours truly,

Hungry Couch

[Dante Luna]

I like Skyrim exploration/most of the aspects of that game.
Good story helps character customization , powers , romance , personally im a fan of transformation abilities.Different weapon types , and one important thing , no "sacred npc" allow me to kill anyone that i want to.
I dislike annoying characters.A pet for the house maybe? I dislike a lot cliche characters , bow users are somehow in most games anorexic looking , same with female characters , there can be muscular women.
Talking about Skyrim again i go punching people and making them explode there (modded)
Will there be modding supported? Modding makes games survive for a lot more time and looking at Skyrim again it made it the best RPG for a decade easily.
From what i saw this game has a lot of stuff , i hope it gets developed well.

[Hardcore Games™]

The video clip suggests this game needs full controller support

[Thrash]

whatever you do, dont make it like Stellaris. The quest/adventure stuff is good, not too hardcore like a roguelike

[Azmonius]

One thing I was hoping for as soon as I saw the game was random generation, that would definitely be the make or break deal for me. I don't want to be exploring the exact same world and doing the exact same quests over and over with no replay value. That is where I feel most quest based games falter. of course multiplayer would also be dope ;).

[Azmonius]

Originally posted by Thrash:

whatever you do, dont make it like Stellaris. The quest/adventure stuff is good, not too hardcore like a roguelike

I think they should lean more towards the roguelike-y style of gameplay, the game would definitely pick up more traction that way. However if you are not a fan they can have an option to play it casually as well! :D

[BZGaming]

Does anyone know how much will it cost?

[Antishyr]

Originally posted by BZGaming:

Does anyone know how much will it cost?

$19.99. But it's a wrong thread.

[Nantes]

"Are you looking forward to compelling Skyrim-esque exploration? Captivating Witcher 3-ish narrative and side quests? The Division/Destiny's gear upgrade & management system? Resource hunting, survival and craft of Terraria and Starbound? A hardcore, roguelike-y level of difficulty? Or maybe you want Black Skylands to become a strategy game, much like Stellaris?"

I don't think making a poll about people's favorite genres is the correct way to develop your game; everyone has their own subjective preferences, and trying to develop the game in the several directions each person wants will make it a Frankenstein monster that's not really good at any particular aspect. The world doesn't need more generic games. Instead, I think you guys should develop it to be the game YOU want to make it the best it can be at those particular areas, and whichever players share your vision will stick around.

Imagine if Apple asked everyone what they would have liked their phones to be; we'd still have phones with physical numpads. There would never be any innovation. Instead, they went ahead and developed their vision for what a phone should be, and people started wanting something they didn't even know they wanted.

[BZGaming]

Originally posted by An'Ti-Shyr:

Originally posted by BZGaming:

Does anyone know how much will it cost?

$19.99. But it's a wrong thread.

Ok sorry, I didn't find where to publish this

[Owlie]

Originally posted by An'Ti-Shyr:

Are you looking forward to compelling Skyrim-esque exploration? Captivating Witcher 3-ish narrative and side quests? The Division/Destiny's gear upgrade & management system? Resource hunting, survival and craft of Terraria and Starbound? A hardcore, roguelike-y level of difficulty? Or maybe you want Black Skylands to become a strategy game, much like Stellaris?

Don't.

I have no qualms in telling how the gameplay should be like but please try to stand out as your own kind of game. A game that tries to have everything would end up being good at nothing.

[Dragoth]

The top down ship combat kind of gives me vibes of starsector. Which is a good thing. I would like to see it become kind of open world where stuff happens all around you even if your not doing anything. The world changes and goes through issues with other factions without player input. Makes the world feel alive and you are a part of it. Like for example flying and seeing other factions fighting or people being attacked by monsters.

Being able to affect the world in various ways and create an empire or faction and have diplomacy and trade as well. Being able to have a group of ships you can command or can send on missions. Proper in-game economy that adjusts for players and NPC's around. Piracy for players and NPC's. Blackmarket and smuggling as well as people and NPC's who want to play as the "law".

The reason why everything is in the sky is the world below ruined? Maybe have some surface missions for rare supplies? Incorporate different aspects of games like crusader kings stuff with lineage and intrigue or relationship building. Rimworld/dwarf fortress colony/base building. Alliance forming...player/faction housing. Marriages to unite factions or make alliances. Player families..... maybe even an aging system. Eventually your children will takeover the reins.

Mods and workshop support would be amazing as well. Would love for this game to be an endless play forever type game since its a sandbox. With the world changing factions falling and rising and monsters taking over areas that need to be cleansed again.

Seasons that change and bring on different yearly events or monster migration. Monster growth and mating seasons. Want to have an easier summer? Exterminate a few nests during a hibernation period and the numbers will decrease... Ignore it and deal with the consequences.

Is there an overworld map? How big are the normal areas and do you need to do long distance travelling on the overworld map until you get into an encounter or just want to explore an area?

just a few things.... :D

~ Dragoth

[BlackjackGT]

The top-down on-foot shooter battles against challenging AI enemies, and ship-to-ship combat of Black Skylands most interested/entertained me during the play tests.

The whole farming, building, resource gathering stuff really never interested me at all and almost felt like a tedious obstacle in getting to the more entertaining gameplay aspects. That said, i understand the game's "hybrid genre" feature is probably a key marketing aspect.

[Luidji]

Terraria for all weapons and armor skin customisation, Skyrim for open world middleage with dragon (ofc) and all other monster. Sry for my crazy english xD

[Zeron]

Easily a candidate for procedural generated content. It would definitely fit this game perfectly and it would make it more replayable.

[Dreaming Prince]

challenging arcade action adventure with huge handcrafted world to explore no procedural pls