StarkRavingMad posted:

Clockwork Empires - Early Access to Mr. Steelcogworth's Tasteful Nuts

nvining posted:

As a random note: based on people's experiences here, I got a couple of random goons to test it with elderly hardware (the AMD Athlon wielding gents from before); it seems to be fine. So our minimum spec requirements are Probably Conservative.

Midrena posted:

Is the price going to be going up (or down) as it goes toward release like some other early access games have done with pricing, or will the price stay the same?

Nicholas posted:

So far, we are only stating that $29.99 USD is the price for Earliest Access right now; our official policy is to not commit to anything, and then make a funny joke about it instead. More generally, we can't see into the future, and so we don't want to say something like "this will be $29.99 USD forever" or "we will announce a complicated, multi-tier kickstarter-based pricing scheme" or "we'll only take Digglebucks", only to realize that this was a terrible idea (especially the Digglebucks) and have to back out of it, thus annoying people.

I will say that we argued long, and hard, over picking $29.99, and that it's based on a certain amount of competitive analysis versus other titles on Steam in similar genres, both from other indie studios and from higher-tier/AAA publishers.

LtSmash posted:

From the gaslamp forums

Midrena posted:

Awesome, thanks for the info.


Edit: Daynab, the first link in the OP (to the earliest access post) has a small typo at the end with an extra " in there.

Daynab posted:

Got it, thanks!

I should probably mention that we have an irc channel at irc.quakenet.org #gaslampgames, webchat's here if you need. https://webchat.quakenet.org/
Come hang out!
Can't guarantee any of the devs will be around often since they're super busy, but we usually hover around 30 people and I moderate it, so don't be jerks!

edit: as much as I love that reference it would be false advertising since Mr. Steelcogworth's nuts have been removed

Daynab posted:

edit: as much as I love that reference it would be false advertising since Mr. Steelcogworth's nuts have been removed

nvining posted:

Yes, but where were the nuts removed *from*?

quote:

Some questions and comments about tomorrow’s Earliest Access launch:

Q. “When will builds go out?”
A. “Roughly 10AM PST.”

Q. “The game crashed, broke, or otherwise did a terrible and monstrous thing. It is now sitting in my living room and hogging the couch, throwing empty beer cans at the cat. It has given me Ghost Neck, and many other diseases that we read about on your blog. What do I do? Who do I complain to?”
A. “If you want to submit the bug quickly and get back into the game, your best bet is the support form, which can (as of some time this evening) be found at portal.clockworkempires.com. Our forums also have a list of known bugs and we regularly check for new ones at community.gaslampgames.com.

Q. “Is there OS X or Linux support?”
A. “Not for Earliest Access, no. We have unpolished, internal ports that are not ready for prime-time. We hope to have this up for the first or second incarnation of Steam Early Access in August.”

Q. “What’s the ETA on save games?”
A. “Save games have a critical bug in them right now, which we are still hunting down. Micah has not moved from his desk for the past one hundred and sixty-eight hours and has now grown some kind of third eye in the middle of his forehead. Expect these to show up next week.”

Q. “In the eight hours since you invented it, Earliest Access has ruined PC Gaming forever! What IS THIS THING?! How do we know what to expect, and where should we go to understand what we’re buying?”
A. “An enormous project status page, clearly outlining all the work we have done in the past two-and-a-half years as well as the expected roadmap for everything going forward, can be found here.”

Q. “What are testers saying about the current state of the game?”
A. “The earliest build is best described as an occult cabbage-farming simulator with fishpeople.”

Q. “Are you fishpeople?”
A. “Blup. I mean, no.”

Daynab posted:

Earliest Access FAQ: https://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/07/17/clockwork-empires-earliest-access-faq/

A. “Save games have a critical bug in them right now, which we are still hunting down. Micah has not moved from his desk for the past one hundred and sixty-eight hours and has now grown some kind of third eye in the middle of his forehead. Expect these to show up next week.”

Seventh Arrow posted:

The savegames, or the forehead eyes?

Seventh Arrow posted:

The savegames, or the forehead eyes?

Daynab posted:

Earliest Access FAQ: https://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/07/17/clockwork-empires-earliest-access-faq/

Q. “What are testers saying about the current state of the game?”
A. “The earliest build is best described as an occult cabbage-farming simulator with fishpeople.”

Daynab posted:

Got it, thanks!

I should probably mention that we have an irc channel at irc.quakenet.org #gaslampgames, webchat's here if you need. https://webchat.quakenet.org/
Come hang out!
Can't guarantee any of the devs will be around often since they're super busy, but we usually hover around 30 people and I moderate it, so don't be jerks!

edit: as much as I love that reference it would be false advertising since Mr. Steelcogworth's nuts have been removed

Gooses and Geeses posted:

Anyone know if we're still on for approximately 10am PST? I appreciate approximately can mean hours, don't worry.

Kinetica posted:

So on this Yellowstone biome- as we all know Yellowstone sits on a super massive volcano. Will this be an issue in game? There might be Something sleeping under it and it might not be a good idea to wake Him/It up

nvining posted:

Schwack posted:

Does this make everyone else's PC chug pretty hard or is that something I should submit?

Not complaining, I knew what I was buying, just curious.

nvining posted:

There are definitely some things in the renderer that are pretty unoptimized. This is on the "not quite immediate, but fairly immediate" TODO list.

What's your CPU and video card, and what resolution are you playing at?

Schwack posted:

I started windowed at 1600x900 with an i5-2500K and a fairly old GTX 260.