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Long-in-the-works colony sim MMO Seed is shaping up into something that looks like EVE Online for RimWorld fans.
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Two former developers of EVE Online have been working with their studio Klang Games for over a decade to make an MMO where it isn't just the world that's persistent, your characters are too. Klang Games turned up at GDC this week to debut a new trailer with a song by Björk in the Future Games Show and to give me an overview of the current state of Seed.
Back when we first saw Seed in 2017 it was ambitiously name-checking inspirations like The Sims and Dwarf Fortress. That hasn't changed much, as its third co-founder, CEO Mundi Vondi, adds titles like RimWorld to the cocktail of obsessively deep simulation touchstones while showing it off. It's an MMO where your "Seedling" characters continue operating in the world even when you're offline.
Klang Games' society simulation covers everything from taxes and rules enacted by its player-run societies to all the individual bones in your character's skeleton, Vondi says, with things like building and decorating individual homes and stores somewhere in between.
I didn't ask about all the possibilities of biblically-accurate bones, but the developers at Klang were quite happy to recount some of the society-level drama that makes its EVE Online DNA quite apparent.
Societies are the backbone of Seed. Players within a society will be working together to build it up, whether as its lawmakers, business owners, or individual citizens collecting resources. They envision that societies could be run by Twitch streamers with big communities, or my own small group of co-op crafting game friends, or even PC Gamer, why not?
Societies with tons of members may develop into cyberpunk-y megalopolises full of buildings with resources gathered from the world by thousands of players' Seedlings, intricately managed by laws made by its leaders, while smaller groups (like my friends) may have little hamlet societies where we're just trying to level up our crafting skills high enough to build a water purifier for the first time.
Importantly, someone like me won't be stuck choosing between slotting into cushy urban living and roughing it with my pals. If I've got multiple Seedling character slots on my account I can have those characters living in totally different societies with their own lives and jobs.
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Two former developers of EVE Online have been working with their studio Klang Games for over a decade to make an MMO where it isn't just the world that's persistent, your characters are too. Klang Games turned up at GDC this week to debut a new trailer with a song by Björk in the Future Games Show and to give me an overview of the current state of Seed.
Back when we first saw Seed in 2017 it was ambitiously name-checking inspirations like The Sims and Dwarf Fortress. That hasn't changed much, as its third co-founder, CEO Mundi Vondi, adds titles like RimWorld to the cocktail of obsessively deep simulation touchstones while showing it off. It's an MMO where your "Seedling" characters continue operating in the world even when you're offline.
Klang Games' society simulation covers everything from taxes and rules enacted by its player-run societies to all the individual bones in your character's skeleton, Vondi says, with things like building and decorating individual homes and stores somewhere in between.
I didn't ask about all the possibilities of biblically-accurate bones, but the developers at Klang were quite happy to recount some of the society-level drama that makes its EVE Online DNA quite apparent.
Societies are the backbone of Seed. Players within a society will be working together to build it up, whether as its lawmakers, business owners, or individual citizens collecting resources. They envision that societies could be run by Twitch streamers with big communities, or my own small group of co-op crafting game friends, or even PC Gamer, why not?
Societies with tons of members may develop into cyberpunk-y megalopolises full of buildings with resources gathered from the world by thousands of players' Seedlings, intricately managed by laws made by its leaders, while smaller groups (like my friends) may have little hamlet societies where we're just trying to level up our crafting skills high enough to build a water purifier for the first time.
Importantly, someone like me won't be stuck choosing between slotting into cushy urban living and roughing it with my pals. If I've got multiple Seedling character slots on my account I can have those characters living in totally different societies with their own lives and jobs.
Keep up...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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