He is making something else, Haunted Chocolatier.
It looks like he’s effectively using Stardew Valley as a testing ground for features to see how they might work in that game.
So, not a direct sequel, but not a completely unrelated game either.
Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At this point they should just hold on to all the updates they want to add, and make it a sequel. I love all the things that they’ve added and it’s clearly a piece of passion, but at some point they’re going to need to publish something else
Goronmon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mickey@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I believe he said it took place in the same universe at some point? So there will probably be overlap between them.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
eric barone cinematic universe: only unifying feature is the presence of jojamart
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 months ago
That sounds like a really cool title for a game if nothing else!
SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
And have it end up like Starbound? No way.
rigatti@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He surely has enough money from Stardew to live comfortably for the rest of his life. Why would he need to publish anything?
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I never thought about it like that. If he makes an average of just $0.50 per sale after all the storefront fees and taxes stuff, he would still have enough money to pay himself $200,000 a year for an entire lifetime, just from the sales he’s already made. No wonder he’s so chill about keeping the game updated for free. What an awesome guy
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I thought $0.50 was low for this math to work out, but turns out 30 million copies of Stardew Valley have been sold, so that’s $15 million, which over 60 years is $250k/year.
Still though I have no clue if $0.50 is normal take home per copy sold for a self published game (it seems low), but I’m very happy he’s doing well for himself and hopes he makes more per copy sold. I’ve bought the game 4 times, so I’m doing my part!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah, I chose $0.50 as an absurdly low assumption, because while the game nominally sells for $15, I don’t know anything about costs involved. A quick google search says his net worth is somewhere around 30-45 million dollars, which is about twice what I estimated. Which most people would either use as an excuse to sell the game to Microsoft and retire forever, but Eric Barone is too good for that. I just realized I only own the game on mobile and xbox. Reckon I might buy it on PC next paycheck
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
He has hired a few contractors to help build out features like co-op, (though the first few versions were entirely him on his own). That would eat into profits a bit, but even if he paid each of them $100k for their work there are few enough for it to be a drop in the bucket
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because 4 years ago he said he was working on another game based on stardew?
huginn@feddit.it 5 months ago
Which he’s still working on.
People can do 2 things.
johsny@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Speak for yourself. I can hardly do 1 at a time.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 months ago
This reminds me of Andrew Gower and his brother’s new game, Brighter Shores. It’s a pure passion project based on a from scratch game engine that was created to make programming (even massively) multiplayer online games much easier.
The goal isn’t profit but rather, to have fun, and make a cool enjoyable game. He’s said they’ve made more than enough money from the sale of Jagex and RuneScape back in the day (which FWIW, he regrets that sale and a lot of what has happened at Jagex/to RuneScape).
I love to see game developers (and people in general that … “make it” and then go “you know what, I do have enough”).