Update #3: Pre Alpha Prototype!
Kickstarter News
Hey everyone, we’ve had a great showing so far! It’s only been four days and we’re already at greater than 50% of our goal! We just need to push for a few more days at this rate and we’ll be sure to reach our goal! This has happened much faster than I can put out updates.
Our $8 “early bird special” tier is gone. That’s amazing! If you missed out on the early bird special, you can go for the $10 tier, which is the same.
Pre-Alpha Prototype
We’re happy to announce the release of our pre-alpha protoype to backers and non-backers alike! You can get it here. Feel free to play it, and keep in mind that our game is in a very early state right now! I’ve also recorded an honest 20 minute video describing what we have in our prototype.
System Recommendations:
- Windows PC Running Windows 7 (Windows 8 may work, but not Mac or Linux)
- Mouse, Keyboard (preferably US Layout)
- 4 GB of RAM 8 preferred
- 2 Core processor, 4 to 8 preferred.
- Video card with at least 128 MB of VRAM (512 to 1 GB preferred)
We have several updates up and coming about technical and design details of DwarfCorp. We’re excited!
Windows PC Running Windows 7 (Windows 8 may work, but not Mac or Linux)
Mouse, Keyboard (preferably US Layout)
4 GB of RAM 8 preferred
2 Core processor, 4 to 8 preferred.
Video card with at least 128 MB of VRAM (512 to 1 GB preferred) OH MY, will you optimize the game peformance on the updates?
Those are wildly conservative estimates. Those are just my specs. I haven’t tested it on other machines yet, but the performance is likely to be very bad on lesser specs. The performance has already dramatically improved between 1.000 and 1.014. It will improve more in the future.
It worked! I tried to test the features shown in the video, but after a while the Dwarves simply stopped. They were able to gather some apples and wood though. No lag but CPU temperature went above 67ºC, which is uncommon for my computer.
Looking really nice so far!
when its on paypal i go buy it 🙂
I keep getting black screen on the start menu within 15-30 seconds.
Also it didn’t seem to go black during gameplay, but instead my dwarfs did stop digging after few blocks and stood still until client decided to crash. 🙁
After about 5 mins of mining my dwarves stopped still and wouldn’t do anything, it also suddenly dropped in frames
This is our first release of any of our code. We haven’t done a huge amount of testing on other machines. Thanks for bringing these problems to our attention. We will be pushing bug fixes to this prototype during the life of the Kickstarter.
8 GB of RAM preferred? Is this the next Crysis 3?
This is the next crysis 4. A crysis of dwarves.
But in all seriousness, I’m just listing my specs there. The game uses ~500 MB of RAM on average I’d say.
cool, nice progress cam’t wait to see how it turns out