Licensed Don't Starve Mobile Game (Don't Starve: Newhome)

[minespatch]

5 minutes ago, Terra_Zina said:

So go ahead and check out the video description to find out more about Don't Starve: Newhome™. There, you will find a link to the store page and a special code to unlock all sorts of goodies. Using the special code, you can get 50,000 Silver immediately, and a FREE Epic Level Champion as part of the new players program, courtesy of course of the Don't Starve: Newhome™ devs.

AND BEST OF ALL ITS FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[balloonomancer]

so I'm... going to assume this isn't canon??

[minespatch]

1 hour ago, balloonomancer said:

so I'm... going to assume this isn't canon??

That's what Joe says.

I guess this is the au where all the mod characters go.

[QrChuck]

4 hours ago, minespatch said:

That's what Joe says.

Can't find the post with confirmation. Could you possibly qoute it?

[GreedScorpio]

already sign up for the beta!!! Thank you guys!!!

[SoupRiced]

15 hours ago, minespatch said:

AND BEST OF ALL ITS FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Sinkhole [39.99$ to enter]

[Merio.]

That sounds cool! I'm excited

[minespatch]

9 hours ago, QrChuck said:

Can't find the post with confirmation. Could you possibly qoute it?

You're right. He didn't. I just checked myself.

[PasssionFish]

I love how Abbie is just like "Whatcha dooooing?"

[Baguettes]

17 minutes ago, TheHollowKnight said:

What? is that an Ancient Pseudoscience station above ground?... correct me if i'm wrong.

[PasssionFish]

1 hour ago, Baguettes said:

What? is that an Ancient Pseudoscience station above ground?... correct me if i'm wrong.

The floor looks like ruins flooring and im pretty sure you cant pitchfork that (or ive just never tried) there are trees but they could be planted. im not sure. Personally i think its underground because of the flooring but who knows.

 

[Bluegeist]

from twitter, reveals a bit more

[minespatch]

1 hour ago, Bluegeist said:

from twitter, reveals a bit more

I guess pipspooks will also be in the game.

 

[sovon9]

[ArubaroBeefalo]

9 hours ago, TheHollowKnight said:

The floor looks like ruins flooring and im pretty sure you cant pitchfork that (or ive just never tried) there are trees but they could be planted. im not sure. Personally i think its underground because of the flooring but who knows.

 

You can use the ptchfork but the turf dissappears :_

when a thulecite made turf

[KeshS]

Spoiler

9 hours ago, Bluegeist said:

from twitter, reveals a bit more

 

[Pelontriques]

Quite frankly, I'm disappointed that Klei would decide on partnering with Tencent, who own WeChat and often censor things and report private conversations to the police.

[PasssionFish]

This is a 4 second video of the newhome pets just idle animations i guess but idk how to do gifs so heres this.

[me real life]

@TheHollowKnight tweets embed and the Newhome account usually posts the same things on both platforms

[ArubaroBeefalo]

[watermelen671]

1 hour ago, Sunset Skye said:

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The clashing art styles here are really wigging me out. Almost every single critter there looks to be in a different art style. The animations on them also look to be of varying style and quality. It looks like they just hired a bunch of animators fresh out of art school that have little to no experience. Arguably the one with the most "Don't Starve"-esque animation style is the green birchnutter thing...discounting the Kittykit for obvious reasons.

Spoiler

And I don't know if I'm just seeing things but it kinda looks like they removed frames from the Kittykit's animation.

Here's the original animation from the game's files:

Yeah I think they did remove frames from the animation...but the question is why though?

 

[KeshS]

23 minutes ago, watermelen671 said:

Almost every single critter there looks to be in a different art style.

Because the Chinese are good at copying, not replicating.

[Weavilemeinfep]

my two cents is that as long as theres no selling of data, then it will be something that exists,

sure the whole "tencent" thing kinda gave me a frighten or two, but if its done right, then it could be a pretty solid alternative to DST, granted, its for mobile, and things can get a tad bit cluttered with a touch screen, but at best, if theres no extremely scummy mtx or any other scummy practices, and the gameplay is as good as ds mobile, then i will have as many complaints with it as will a mute nun, and at worst...


Well, it will just exist. as long as its not another moba.

 

[Sinister_Fang]

9 hours ago, watermelen671 said:

The clashing art styles here are really wigging me out. Almost every single critter there looks to be in a different art style. The animations on them also look to be of varying style and quality. It looks like they just hired a bunch of animators fresh out of art school that have little to no experience. Arguably the one with the most "Don't Starve"-esque animation style is the green birchnutter thing...discounting the Kittykit for obvious reasons.

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And I don't know if I'm just seeing things but it kinda looks like they removed frames from the Kittykit's animation.

Here's the original animation from the game's files:

Yeah I think they did remove frames from the animation...but the question is why though?

 

I mean, it is a licensed, mobile game. The goal here is to make a quick buck, not a quality product. Hiring experienced artists/animators is just gonna cut into profits.

(The loss of frames is likely to either use less disk space, and/or to keep the game at a smooth framerate. Trying to keep things as lightweight as possible is usually a good idea when working with mobile.)

[me real life]

30 minutes ago, Sinister_Fang said:

I mean, it is a licensed, mobile game. The goal here is to make a quick buck, not a quality product. Hiring experienced artists/animators is just gonna cut into profits.

I can't imagine being here in this community for almost 4 years and yet seeing Klei in a way like this. Out of all the companies I know, Klei is honestly the most generous, they keep giving out free games and recently even donated 1 million in support of BLM. Would they really do something like this for a quick buck? Shengqu, the developers of Newhome, have also been described as being "fans of Don't Starve", loving specifics aspects like the Forge and Gorge, and they remade the game's whole engine in unity just for this.

Like, are you just saying this because it's a mobile game, or...? Because I can't see any other reason you'd think like this.