Planet Explorers - Kickstart and Steam Greenlight this now!

Stumbled across Planetary Explorers - it is both on Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight. There is an Alpha build available off the Kickstart page. It looks pretty good - may interest a number of the Community here.

And backed. I have to admit, it was the Bluth Staircar that sold me.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has been following this game since last year. Here's their articles for anyone interested.

Glad to see this Kickstarter giving out a free blast at the alpha to decide if I should back or not. Usually you have to back it to get to the Alpha, only to find it's not what you thought it was going to be! Downloading now.

Ok I spent about 6 hrs that flew by to my chagrin - perhaps getting me into trouble with the Missus this evening. That being said - all I can say is wow. Everything makes sense and is intuitive right from the start. I'd recommend starting off in story mode as it is a nice tutorial. If you ever wanted to play a stranded on an alien planet and find a way to survive game - this is it. You can craft upgrades to all the basic tools, armor and weapons. Build homes, cities, and hunt the fauna. I really enjoyed it and immediately backed at $100. Highly recommend playing the alpha. I was really surprised how rock solid it was.

Good to hear. I downloaded the alpha, and will be giving it a try tonight. I'm assuming at this stage multiplayer is not available? (I will properly dig into the details no doubt after I've given the alpha a whirl..)

omnipherous wrote:

Good to hear. I downloaded the alpha, and will be giving it a try tonight. I'm assuming at this stage multiplayer is not available? (I will properly dig into the details no doubt after I've given the alpha a whirl..)

I didn't look, but there are NPC companions in story mode. Didn't really test them out.

I'm in at the $25 after just a couple of minutes of the first video. I may go to the $80 tier after actually checking out the Kickstarter as it looks like something I'd love to play with the kids and my brother so I can burn through four copies. I've been on another KS binge lately though, I need to see what my pending damage is. Luckily this binge has been indie games and not more robots and quadcopters.

Where do you download it at?

http://pathea.net/planet-explorers

Has either indieDB or torrent versions. It just gives you a zip file with a directory in it, no installing needed.

Nevin73 wrote:

Where do you download it at?

http://www.pathea.net/

Ok, excuse the thicko question but..... how do you dig? I used the 'Shovel Script', which made some funky lights flash over my character, but I can't for the life of me work out how to use it. I also picked up the supplies, but I think I used the herbal medicine, as I attempted, and failed, to give it to the NPC....

Guess this is too far removed from my usual strategy games for me just to pick up instantly.

Looks absolutely fascinating though, and very polished for an alpha, from what little I've seen so far.

A few more glasses of rum, and I highly doubt I won't have backed this by the end of the night...

EDIT:

Spoiler:

Ok I worked out that you have to use the medicine, and then replicate it, but I can't find the peach flower.... or create a shovel, woodcutting axe, and whatever the third early thing is...

Maybe I need more hand-holding...

omnipherous wrote:

Ok, excuse the thicko question but..... how do you dig? I used the 'Shovel Script', which made some funky lights flash over my character, but I can't for the life of me work out how to use it. I also picked up the supplies, but I think I used the herbal medicine, as I attempted, and failed, to give it to the NPC....

Guess this is too far removed from my usual strategy games for me just to pick up instantly.

Looks absolutely fascinating though, and very polished for an alpha, from what little I've seen so far.

A few more glasses of rum, and I highly doubt I won't have backed this by the end of the night...

EDIT:

Spoiler:

Ok I worked out that you have to use the medicine, and then replicate it, but I can't find the peach flower.... or create a shovel, woodcutting axe, and whatever the third early thing is...

Maybe I need more hand-holding...

If you have a script, think recipe. Right click to learn it. Then press G to bring up crafting menu. Look for shovel. If you have wood you can make it. The knife you get needs to be equipped so you can cut trees. Walk up to tree and press right MB and hold to start cutting. Speed of cut depends on quality of axe, etc... Once you get some wood now make the shovel. Dig out supplies to left of shuttle, you'll see a little bit sticking out from ground. Chop some more wood and make axe, pick, sword, shield. Axe is hi pri so you can chop a little faster. Follow the quest line for a natural tutorial and path to new cool stuff to craft.

Be happy to answer any questions. Also when you get further aling to armor, there is boy armor and girl armor - make sure you buy the right recipe :).

Meat is currency. Fatigue happens over time. You can drag item out of inventory and place it on ground, ala turrets, campfires, beds, furniture etc... Don't forget to equip headlamp. Rest in bed to recover fatigue. I put my weapon and shield in hot keys 1 and two. I put tools in 6, 7, 8, 9. Healing stuff in 5. Also you can right click hot key to equip item. Rt click on portrait brings up character screen. Some mobs are aggressive, some will run. Turrets require a 2x2 base to emplace. To enter build mode, go into inventory, click resource tab and rt click resource. On screen instructions appear. Controls a little finicky, but there is an undo as well as ability to delete. Terrain us deformable, don't dig yourself too deep :). All I can think of for now.

Thanks! I finally worked out that you can use the knife to cut wood, and the rest of the tools fell into place I totally didn't think to make a sword and shield (haven't found the scripts for those yet, but I'm sure I will). All of the animals I've met so far didn't appreciate me being there, and apparently punching them does not give me the upper hand in the fight

I'll get there eventually, but like I said, this isn't normally the type of game I go for, however, it certainly has caught my attention... Another rum you say? sure! I may even end up in Frarkin frogohs frapulisim sometime soon

Also, loving the music..

omnipherous wrote:

Thanks! I finally worked out that you can use the knife to cut wood, and the rest of the tools fell into place I totally didn't think to make a sword and shield (haven't found the scripts for those yet, but I'm sure I will). All of the animals I've met so far didn't appreciate me being there, and apparently punching them does not give me the upper hand in the fight

I'll get there eventually, but like I said, this isn't normally the type of game I go for, however, it certainly has caught my attention... Another rum you say? sure! I may even end up in Frarkin frogohs frapulisim sometime soon

Also, loving the music..

You can buy the scripts from the gal at the crashed ship. She will award you some - I just bought them. Also, another note once you discover a location - you can fast travel there from the map at the cost of one meat.

Excellent. Backed at $25 tonight, that may increase as I get more into it.

Oh my is it dark at night.... I lost the NPCs I was supposed to be following/protecting. Also, the two NPCs i recruited to my team ran off to fight some spider-looking beastie... they never returned... Maybe I should've armed them first!

Fair warning, however, there may be many more 'beginner' questions from me

EDIT: Everyone on GWJ should greenlight this! Even if they're not interested in playing it!

omnipherous wrote:

Excellent. Backed at $25 tonight, that may increase as I get more into it.

Oh my is it dark at night.... I lost the NPCs I was supposed to be following/protecting. Also, the two NPCs i recruited to my team ran off to fight some spider-looking beastie... they never returned... Maybe I should've armed them first!

Fair warning, however, there may be many more 'beginner' questions from me

EDIT: Everyone on GWJ should greenlight this! Even if they're not interested in playing it!

I agree on the greenlight. They are so close on the KS as well. The design your own "stuff" tool is absolutely amazing. It's like a mini CAD tool within the game. The tutorial is pretty good for it as well. You can design and build vehicles, swords, guns etc,... Pretty cool.

Save early, save often. Alpha quality software, you know.

Wow, this looks really cool, thanks for posting or i'd have missed it. Backed at $25 just now.

LtWarhound wrote:

Save early, save often. Alpha quality software, you know.

I agree, but I haven't had one crash and other then NPC/Mob pathing goofiness I haven't had an issue. You will die early on so invest in revives, you start with 15. Most of the big mobs will one shot you. Bows are your friend. Oh, and f*ck you firebears, f*ck you hard you bastards.

There's a bit of wonkiness. I went to do my usual "invert Y axis" and found out that is "invert horizontal" in the game. (I guess they are meaning "invert about the horizontal axis".) Some glitchiness in movement too but hey, alpha software.

Died a couple of times and can't find one of the flowers I need for the first healing potion (or whatever it is). Looks like I need to explore further.

I am in at the $20 level (and actually have been in for a while).

tanstaafl wrote:

Died a couple of times and can't find one of the flowers I need for the first healing potion (or whatever it is). Looks like I need to explore further.

Bellflower? Its closer than you might think.

Spoiler:

Different ecosystems in different terrain, check the mountain near the camp.

SpyNavy wrote:

I agree, but I haven't had one crash and other then NPC/Mob pathing goofiness I haven't had an issue.

I've crashed a few times, mostly when fast travelling. The autosave works fairly well, just have to remember to manually save, particularly when swapping into build mode to play around with the builder.

You will die early on so invest in revives, you start with 15. Most of the big mobs will one shot you. Bows are your friend. Oh, and f*ck you firebears, f*ck you hard you bastards.

Bows are nice, ammo is easy to get for them. Now, the firebears?

Spoiler:

Custom guns. I made a quad-barrel custom twohander, and it pours out bullets like a firehose. Problem is, of course, is it pours out bullets. Goes through ammo like crazy, you spend a lot of time mining.

Trying to make a cheap, low tech armed vehicle. I can make a slow, hard to steer little car, but if I arm it, it has a tendency to blow up when I try to deploy it. Or burn, its rather disconcerting to be sitting in a car that is covered in fire and smoke.

Was playing story mode and enjoying myself quite a bit. After a certain point I wanted to just ditch the story and go on adventure mode but that failed to load for me. I'll be keeping an eye on this game regardless. I love the fact that minecraft style whatever became a genre unto itself. Needs a name? World builders, world games? Something like that.

master0 wrote:

I love the fact that minecraft style whatever became a genre unto itself. Needs a name? World builders, world games? Something like that.

Yeah, there's this, StarForge, loosely Blockade Runner, and today I just found out about Anteworld which is really more of a showcase of the engine they're making.

Come on Goodjers, spread the word, play the Alpha and Kickstart it. They are so close. Less than $8000 to go.

SpyNavy wrote:

Come on Goodjers, spread the word, play the Alpha and Kickstart it. They are so close. Less than $8000 to go.

Agreed, I've asked pretty much everyone I know to greenlight it, even if they're not that interested.

On Greenlight, is there any way to see where they rank/chances of getting greenlit this time around?

omnipherous wrote:

On Greenlight, is there any way to see where they rank/chances of getting greenlit this time around?

I think that's only exposed to the dev.

In at $80.

Now I just need to make some friends to share my copies with.

Will you be my friend?

FR sent on Steam. Already bought in so don't need a copy

EDIT: So close for them now, less than $1600 $1000 to go!

Voted for on Greenlight, which is all I could do since I don't have the budget for anything video game related. Hope it gets a huge KS bump in the remaining days from those that can contribute.

You can still play the alpha for free and contribute to bug reports, without costing a penny. That, and Druidpeak is looking for friends