Modding

[The Great Gazoo]

Are there any plans to accomodate modding?

[PT]

We're currently evaluating the possibilities and looking closely at our post-launch plans.

As with nearly everything in Aven Colony, the answer to "can you do X?" is "in the long run, almost anything is possible." I can't promise specific features right now but I can say that we have very big plans for Aven Colony and we want to grow it as much as we possibly can, and what we end up adding to the game depends on how things evolve over time.

What I can tell you for sure that our focus is on growing and supporting Aven Colony through the launch and as far as we can see in the future, and we're not working on anything else in the studio besides Aven Colony.

[The Great Gazoo]

Originally posted by Paul T:

What I can tell you for sure that our focus is on growing and supporting Aven Colony through the launch and as far as we can see in the future, and we're not working on anything else in the studio besides Aven Colony.

That's good to know. Planetbase is a very similar game, but the devs are not interested in developing it any further.

I believe both games use the Unity game engine, so you may want to check out PB and see how they did their modding thing. I could forward my own files for that purpose if that would help. SPecifically, I would be looking for ways to manipulate the map and/or the ability to use out own height maps. I have many more ideas, if and when the time comes...

[PT]

Planetbase came out after we'd already been in development for a year and a half. We'd initially thought it was a similar game because it had the same genre & setting combination, but it's really a radically different game from Aven Colony.

Just as an FYI, we don't use Unity; we use Unreal Engine 4. All of our maps are done using World Machine and the Unreal Landscape tool.

[The Great Gazoo]

PB is actually a similar game, but you're right, AC definitely has significant differences which make it a far superior game.

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Originally posted by Paul T:

Planetbase came out after we'd already been in development for a year and a half. We'd initially thought it was a similar game because it had the same genre & setting combination, but it's really a radically different game from Aven Colony.

Just as an FYI, we don't use Unity; we use Unreal Engine 4. All of our maps are done using World Machine and the Unreal Landscape tool.

And good riddance you dont use unity !, less devs using that engine the better for everyone.

July cant come soon enough

[ROFLpl0x]

An indie game that wasn't made with Unity is almost... lol... unreal!

But seriously, it has to be moddable. An unmoddable city-builder is like a cheeseburger without cheese! I'm not gonna say "no mods/no buy" but I will say that the city-builder games I've played that don't have mod support have little replayability, at least for me, therefore I tend to steer clear of the ones that don't offer it.

[GamerWolfOps]

Originally posted by Paul T:

Planetbase came out after we'd already been in development for a year and a half. We'd initially thought it was a similar game because it had the same genre & setting combination, but it's really a radically different game from Aven Colony.

Just as an FYI, we don't use Unity; we use Unreal Engine 4. All of our maps are done using World Machine and the Unreal Landscape tool.

Planetbase seems to be abandoned although, i do hope Aven Colony does not get abandoned after release.

[PT]

Originally posted by GamerWolfOps:

Planetbase seems to be abandoned although, i do hope Aven Colony does not get abandoned after release.

We have no plans to abandon it - in fact, we intend to take AC as far as it can go.

Generally, games get abandoned for one of two reasons -- developers either lose interest, or they can no longer afford to support it.

I can guarantee we have major plans for the future and aren't working on anything else, so no chance of us losing interest. So it all depends on what our resources allow us to do.

[ROFLpl0x]

Originally posted by Paul T:

Originally posted by GamerWolfOps:

Planetbase seems to be abandoned although, i do hope Aven Colony does not get abandoned after release.

We have no plans to abandon it - in fact, we intend to take AC as far as it can go.

Generally, games get abandoned for one of two reasons -- developers either lose interest, or they can no longer afford to support it.

I'll add to that the gross overuse of the word "abandoned". I don't own Planetbase and don't know anything much about it but there's a lot of games, like Banished, that are finished as far as the developer intended that get labeled as abandoned because somebody thinks something should be changed or added that was never part of the plan.

Another word that get used too much is "promise". If I had a dime for every time I heard somebody say a developer promised them something I could afford to buy the entire Valve corporation and give games away for free.

[The Great Gazoo]

Planetbase wasn't abandoned, the devs just felt that it was the finished product as they had envisioned it. They weren't planning on anything big...

[o0neill]

Originally posted by Cosmic Cowboy:

Planetbase wasn't abandoned, the devs just felt that it was the finished product as they had envisioned it. They weren't planning on anything big...

good to know thanks i like PB the way it is right now.

[The Great Gazoo]

Tried any of my challenges? I had more fun making them than I did playing the game...

[o0neill]

Originally posted by Cosmic Cowboy:

Tried any of my challenges? I had more fun making them than I did playing the game...

sorry but who are you? what challenges?

[The Great Gazoo]

Same name. I did a bunch of Challenges for PB. Challenges are the PB modders creations. If you don't know what I'm referring to, check the PB workshop page...

[o0neill]

Originally posted by Cosmic Cowboy:

Same name. I did a bunch of Challenges for PB. Challenges are the PB modders creations. If you don't know what I'm referring to, check the PB workshop page...

i know what you are referring to and thanks for that :-)