We still need a few days to finish everything critical to the release.
I won’t go into details now, let’s finish the game first and later I’ll write about how exciting these last few weeks were.
I won’t read comments or reply to them in this last few days, but after the release.
Thanks for staying with us, I hope we can all celebrate in a few days!
GCL: A few more days
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This is the best news I’ve heard today (the release of a new Gemcraft game) and it is a lot better having heard it today since I didn’t notice a new Gamecraft chapter was under development 4-5 months ago. Now, I will not have to wait that much π
I went through all the posts (though not the comments) and all the new features and improvements look quite amazing.
It is nice to hear that you increased the grade of gems you can create, but if you could do it like 36(there are 36 slots) that would be much better for the endurance runs. The two reasons that I stopped playing Gemcraft Chapter 0 after beating all levels in all modes were the mana cap and that you couldn’t create gems beyond grade 6 without combining. It took like 512 grade 6 gems for me to create a grade 15 gem which was not powerful enough for waves 150+. Although I had enough mana, the speed I created gems was lower than the speed the wave of monsters got stronger. And that made playing endurance mode pointless after a few runs.
But removing the skill caps is a really good idea as well for long term playing and fun.
I will definitely pay a lot more than $5 for such a beautiful game.
I cannot say “I cannot wait it any longer” since I heard about the 3rd game today, but I definitely can say that I am looking forward to it now.
man, a grade 36 gem, given that each extra grade requires 2x mana and then some? Do your maths, will there ever appear a grade 36 gem. Even a grade 24 is highly improbable, though I have heard of people who try to make such a monstrosity in GC0.
Also you should know that mana farming, the key strategy which allowed building BIG, has been highly nerfed, at least this sounds like that, so I expect there will rarely be a grade 12. And grade climbing was never a winning strategy, supergemming allowed way cheaper and way better results. (It was also nerfed from the words here, we’ll see how hard)
In v1.2 (of gc0) there is no manacap.
The highest gem I ever had was grade 19.
Hope I can pay with β¬… – Germany π
Marcus, where can I find v1.2?
Highest gem I ever heard of – Grade 21…but one guy angered a wave with 10 Grade 20s.
Oh f*ck. QQ. Was looking forward to the release today. Disappointed much.
Stupid [peter peter peter stupic. I hate this!!! COME ON!!! I”M BORED!! I HATE THE LETTER P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
You can’t even speel “stupic”.
Hehe.
And you can’t even “speel” “speel”.
Hehe.
kekeke
On purpose.
only thing i coulnd make a grade 20-30 gem is
it takes to lang to combine and kreate
and my system cant compute 1000 monsters and 500 towers π
10 prismatic gems in traps need too much performance
Go Peter go!
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From the comments i’ve read here, all I see is people whining about the release being postponed. Coding a game takes a lot more effort than a lot of you seem to think, there’s always unknown bugs popping up last minute that need immediate attention. Just appreciate the fact he’s taking the time and effort to actually make a new gemcraft for you. Not to mention there’s countless other things to do in the mean time, like going outside. As they say, patience is a virtue.
Keep up the good work Peter, I look forward to the release.
Kas
“From the comments iβve read here, all I see is people whining about the release being postponed.”
See my above comments
“Coding a game takes a lot more effort than a lot of you seem to think, thereβs always unknown bugs popping up last minute that need immediate attention.”
We may not know, but he should know enough by now to be able to set a realistic release date.
“Just appreciate the fact heβs taking the time and effort to actually make a new gemcraft for you.”
Nope. He’s making it for money this time around. Which i’m completely in favour of in fact. I still fully intend to buy it once it finally comes out.
“Kas”
You don’t need to sign your name. It says it there at the top.
Peter, your games are awesome and I hope you make some good moolah with this one. Pay no mind to these uppity neckbeards and try to get some enjoyment out of the process. Best of luck in the home stretch
Using a different slot for each level of gem is not necessary. That’s what the gem forge is for. Whatever gem you want to duplicate, drop it on the forge and there you go. Combine the duplicate with the original to get the next grade of gem. That’s four clicks for any grade of gem if you’re going to place the gem right back in a tower or trap, less if you’re increasing the grade more than once before putting it back.
According to the trailer (4 seconds in) a grade 3 gem costs 490 mana. 490*2^33 mana for a grade 36 gem? According to my calculator grade 36 gems are costing over 4,209,067,950,080 mana (over 4 trillion) at that rate. I don’t know if the trailer has the Forge skill in use, but that’s still a large amount of mana.
I’m not gonna complain as I just found out about GCL a week ago so its not killing me to wait.
However.. I was replaying GC-0 to get my skills back up to be prepared for the fury of the new games awesomeness. This time around didn’t take nearly as long. I’ve defeated every level and sublevel. Unlocked all hidden levels. I am level 209 and there is nothing left to spend my xp points on. So I’ve got like spare points. Every time I replay a map I just add more levels. My work PC starts having a hernia after anger level 10 on every wave so the really high scores are not possible at this time.
Bring on the FURY!!!
Guys, everyone calm down. He was pressured into setting a release date and he wasn’t able to keep it. Doesn’t mean its his fault, it means that something happened. Instead of begging for the end result, how about taking some interest in the process? Ask him where he is and what all needs to be done? Learn a little code and see if you can help him any? There are things that could be done to speed up the process, and none of those are complaining about reaping the benefits of his work.
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put a larger trailer, and another release date, so i can wait more days.
The part about Consistent failure to live up to release dates is a valid argument, BUT you still want GCL, since you’re here, so it obviously is not that big of a deal.
“Hilariously bad PR and marketing skills” Umm…what? The game’s not released yet, and the video fired a lot of people up…
“Weak excuses about no beta being released” Put quite simply, he doesn’t want it to be pirated and leaked, etc.
“Practically no playtesting…” I’m glad to know that you have a video camera watching Peter as he playtests GCL and you know that it hasn’t been tested enough.
Ah yes, the marketing skills. The trailer isn’t anything special, theres nothing we haven’t already seen in screenshots or worked out from what he’s said. The trailer also says Jan 2011. And also the way he goes about getting people to buy the game. Locked skills, levels, and game modes don’t look good. He could easily them out of the free mode and just put a button linking to his website encouraging people to go there if they want more. Other flash games have done it.
If he’s still worried about pirating, then that means he has no system to deal with it, which means that the first person to buy it could distribute it freely. He has mentioned in past comments that he DOES have a way to combat piracy, so why wouldn’t that work for a beta release?
1 person can only do so much playtesting. People play in different ways. He can’t play in all those ways, so there will never be a wide enough spectrum of playtesting.
Wow – comment vanished as I posted!!!
A couple of my first comments on this forum got cought into the spam filter too.
I suggest you repost it.
for some reason the blog pages start to become cached for long enough, so if you load the page and comment, you get the page with no comment. Press F5 (refresh the page), and voila your comment. Got this issue twice yesterday.
Peter, keep up the good work.
If there was a delay, it must be for a reason, so I don’t see why people are angry.
Rules for coding a free game for whining people:
1: Keep up the good work!
2: Mind not the whining folks.
3: Don’t respond to whining comments from whining folks.
4: Be awesome.
“Oh boohoo, I heard about it four arns and seven months ago, boohoo.”
… I give up.
“K for “Kay” says: a bunch of pointless words”
to be honest the new Gemcraft is not free so your wrong’
it will be awesome if they release this tomorrow it would make my birthday a blast.
Well it’s free but it’s dwarfed some of the features so you have to buy to unlock the full game.
Look. I tried to be patiant.
But. If gemcraft is not up by this time tomorrow…
I am going to be VERY BORED between my classes.
Do I make my self clear?
/sillyness
Just between π ?
Times up, dam you. You have killed 2 hours of free time. you have 48 hours to reconsider your options, else you will force me to once again take action.
don’t freak out they need a few extra days
the longer they work on it, the better it will be, just relax and wait π
I don’t mind waiting… but the delay isn’t going to make the game ‘better’. They are making features that already exist work correctly. They are not adding some last minute features that will improve the quality of the game.
removing all the bugs will improve the quality of the game. If its bugging that wont be a good game, fixing it will.
Is it going to be released next monday or earlier?
Peter said it’s better to release it on monday, so…
Valentine release?
So it’s another few days of trying to get achievements in Mushihimesama Futari. And realizing it’s all in vain since I fail at it anyway.
Hmm, still need to take more time on tweaking the game. No idea how long it’ll take for you to finish coding GCL. Hopefully, it’ll be done soon. I’ve already played GC1 and GC0 two years ago, and I’m still ready to take on the fury. π
What surprises me is the lack of media attention this release has garnered. This is the moment that defines our generation.
The moment that defines our generation? I’d be ashamed to be a member of that generation. Come on let’s not get too extreme here…
I personally hope the game releases tomorrow, and I don’t understand how many of these posts are constructive at all. It just seems to be people raging about what they are missing.
I just wanted to express my gratitude towards the job that your doing with your wife. It’s so great to see people willing to work their a**** off for others enjoyment. I for one will buy the game for the measly 5$ when it comes out, just to support your (hopefully) future work.
Keep it up π
im 16 and i have only one way of paying, surveys :/
It’s been a few days now…
Hey, now I’m becoming impatient too.
Guys realise it – this game isnΒ΄t coming out in February.
YOU KNOW WHAT?!?
he can’t release the game flawed , the just a few bugs thing won’t work ,it annoys the hell out of people in general.
but the thing is:
we that are all here reading post per post,we are what someone could call the hardcore fans, this blog has a lot of post with more than 100 replys ,which means you’ve got quite the fanbase for a flash game.
so why the hell didn’t you released a beta?
something like a beta phase would keep the hardcore fans happy ,you know ,the people that would anjoy paying extra ,enjoy finding bugs and spreading word about the game.
whats the point of not doing a beta , ah?? that just makes no sense for me!
he didnt release the beta, as he said in his other posts, to stop people putting it on torrent sites. Big games like starcraft etc got leaked and lost a ton of money, and with a smaller game base its not worth doing that and losing all the money when your capable of testing yourself
So whats to stop them stealing the Unleashed edition?
If it doesnβt have some kind of protection that will happen straight away. A beta can be released with this same protection.
Wow gamers now day’s are ungrateful whiners.
Video games use to be insanely hard, full of bugs and unrewarding (contra anyone)
And Considering how almost ever major game release this year has been pushed back months (star wars, gears of war, portal 2, deus ex, etc)
I bet they all make millions too. So stop whining about when this mostly free indie game make its street date.
(and i will be buying it…even if its straight up broken, why, i wasted countless hours on the first two, they already earned my money)
“mostly free”
people should really try to understand this.
in his Dec 10 post, Peter told us some of the difference between unleashed and free version.
“-The two bottom lines in the settings panel (the toughest settings) are locked.”
If you look at the screenshots from the week before, that means that unlimited waves mode is not free.
If the unlimited mode is not free, then the game is not “mostly free”.
really…i’m pretty sure i understood the dev previous posts…you can play for free…check. If you want the bells and whistles (or just to support) your going pay.
I guess i’d call that mostly free, and just like every other “mostly” free games, you can play it to your hearts content without dropping a dime.
Some would consider this “free” as they are not required to spend “money”
Plus if your read the whole post you would have seen my personal endorsement as to why i (and others) should “buy” it anyway.
forget about what i said i just recaled this is a flash and someone would steal the game and post around if a beta was made :\
So whats to stop them stealing the Unleashed edition? It’s still flash based, and if it doesn’t have some kind of protection that will happen straight away. A beta can be released with this same protection. He didn’t release a beta because of his contract with Armor Games, although I don’t see why.
the guy would post it wround !
probably on a bunch of small game sites it would suck to get it down ,and after that some people would play the game and get bored of it even before he lounched which means they would be less likely for em to play the game after and the contracts you mentioned would be broken and a lot of shit would fly around.
and remember i’m refering to players overall not the hardcorer ones like us waiting for the game right here
*loses interest*
:I
I guess it wonΒ΄t come out in this week…he is probably not going to release it on an Friday or thursday…
I hope he does decide to release it shortly. Although by now, it is just another day. I am not going to cry that I am loosing interest. Once it comes out, I will be really excited and probably play it right away. Maybe it will be today. π He does after all have some hours left in the major North American market.
Insert GemCraft-Forever joke here.
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Binary joke…
Weren’t you the same guy who was making all the big noise about how you have a huge list of games to play, and how you weren’t going to waste anymore of your precious time waiting on this game? And now you take the time to write out a binary joke… I guess that’s not too much of a waste of time.
True fact, people with nothing better to do will @#$%^ about stuff that people that have things to do are doing. True story
I had to read that a few times just to be able to understand it enough to be able to realize that I don’t understand it enough to be able to read it anymore than I’ve already had to. True Story.
Yesss. But while taking a break I always find time to write down a good joke. You know. I’m an old man. I’m 30 so I need to take breaks during playing…
fail, your binary isn’t aligned to 8 bits per byte.
Almost 200 replies in two days. Wow.
I guess that the only way to find out how big your community actually is, is to disappoint it.
Now I’m almost happy he delayed the game.
Can’t wait for the game, and am getting a little jumpy over it being delayed (I was rather disapointed the first time, and even more so the second. I had both days marked in my calerdar) But sill, I suppose it will be out in a few days and in my happy hands.
I’m really hoping that we get some sort of update soon. I’m a little disappointed in the release being pushed back twice now, but that being said, I’m still very excited and I can’t wait to play the game.
it will be released next year, so calm down
Delayed again?
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I am patient and glad Peter is so thorough in his releases.
I agree.. I’m so anxious to play tho!! so stoked its hard to be patient!!! GemCraft’s been so well done in the past I just HAVE.. TO.. KEEP.. PLAYING!!
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I Reckon for the next game, pick a release date, then add one month. if u end up releasing it before then every1 will be plesently surprised.
What do ya’ll think?
Stop your whining guys.. We have a privelage: we CAN talk to peter here and he listens! That is a MAJOR advantage over other game producers where you can’t talk to them. So let’s not abuse it and give Peter his required time π
Totaly agree with that… Even if ‘a few more days’ never seemed so long !
Can’t wait to play GCL !! =)