Newcomb: My experience is that the early access has been very exciting for the team, but there's a lot of pressure to fix things that are broken.
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So long story short, we're adding a new victory condition that's coming out in a patch next week. They like the idea that there's competition but they're not necessarily wanting to wipe everybody else out. I think these are people who are coming from more the Tycoon, Anno, city-builder games.
Once you've played the game for a while, you know when you're in danger of getting bought out, but for someone who's fairly new to it, they jump into multiplayer for the first couple of games, it can come pretty sudden. Johnson: But with Offworld it's like, bang, right? It just suddenly happens. RPS: You get over that curve and see you've won and you just need to keep playing for 45 minutes. Newcomb: There's an angled ramp up and an angled ramp down and it's very linear in both directions.
Most RTS games, you kind of slowly killed, right? So once you have that much money, you can take them over, but it's kind of sudden. If you're playing the game very cutthroat- You win the game by buying out all the other companies and so you buy out their shares on the stock market, and eventually you hit a button to launch a hostile takeover, but you need a certain amount of cash. I really like the way the game ends, but people play games for different reasons. They felt the game ended really suddenly. A very common thing we heard, and this is why we're doing early access, is some people were not totally helped with how the victory condition works.
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The forums are full now, lots of people talking about things they like, things they don't like. It's been more than Stardock projected internally, and just from my own point of view, it was basically hanging around the top 25 for three weeks. And everyone says they want something different, but do they actually want something different? Are they ready to buy something different? So from a sales perspective, it's been great. We're not going to make a StarCraft RTS, it's just not going to happen, so we want to do something different. There isn't an economic RTS, there really isn't something quite like that, and we're doing that because we're a small team. Our big concern going into selling the game was, we're specifically trying to make a game that's different. I've never seen something like this before.' They're really excited about that. The nicest response we see is people saying, 'Oh, this is fresh. The winner is the person who buys low, sells high and uses their gains to launch hostile takeovers of their opponent's companies.Īt GDC, I spoke to designer Soren Johnson (formerly of Civilization IV) and artist Dorian Newcomb (formerly of Civilization V) about Early Access, how player's had surprised them in the months since its initial release, why they wish the game was hidden on Steam, and what small companies can do that big. Offworld Trading Company is a competitive, multiplayer RTS set on Mars, but instead of fighting with lasers, players compete to dominate a fluctuating commodities market.
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