Comment on Whiskerwood Announce Trailer
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year agoI guess if you don’t play a huge variety of these kinds of games it could superficially resemble Rimworld, but it strikes me as a very different beast. Like I said, to me it looks much more like Timberborn. The only part of the trailer where it looked anything like Rimworld was the couple of frames where they appeared to be designating some blocks to be mined in order to create a tunnel.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
To explain myself a bit more: one of the key distinguishing features of Rimworld as what Tynan calls a “story generator” is the focus on characters. There are heavy rpg mechanics baked into the characters in a Rimworld colony, and the colony typically has relatively few members. This has the effect of creating a much more personal story. Contrast that with most Banished-like games, of which I’m including this one, where your characters don’t really have much of a personality and are relatively fungible.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How can you rule out from this trailer the possibility that it shares these qualities with RimWorld? Because I sure can’t.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Here is what I’m referring to. You can see the mouse just has a basic list of needs and maybe some kind of job specialization.
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Pawns in Rimworld have a deep backstory, full sets of skills, family, dynamic relationships with every other pawn in the world, a full inventory including every bit of clothing, and with the DLC, they gain the potential to earn royal rank, biomods, cybernetics, and spellcasting.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve only played the base game of RimWorld, and that looks very RimWorld to me.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
There are some frames where they’ve selected the mice and they don’t appear to have much in the way of RPG mechanics. Certainly nothing of the same scale as Rimworld.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d say both that you’re making a lot of assumptions off of not a lot of information, and that it can be inspired by RimWorld without being exactly like RimWorld, perhaps even with different strengths, but it certainly looks like they were inspired by RimWorld.