Whereas the massive reveal in at present’s tenth anniversary Stardew Valley video was the affirmation of the two new marriage candidates, creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone additionally took us on an interesting tour of the sport in its earliest phases of growth. At one level, there was even an in-game farm map that I very a lot want was nonetheless there.
After demonstrating one of many sport’s earliest builds in the video, from again when it was often called Sprout Valley and appeared much more like a Harvest Moon fan sport, Barone flipped the calendar ahead to 2013, when he’d been engaged on the challenge “possibly a bit of over a 12 months.” Right here, it way more carefully resembles the Stardew Valley we all know at present, however at this level Barone stated the sport “was a bit of bit extra of a simulation idea, I assume, than an RPG.”
“That is just like the weirdest time for the sport,” Barone defined. “I really feel prefer it’s like Stardew Valley hit puberty right here. So you’d really purchase animals and buildings out of your in-game menu moderately than go to Robin. And there was that farm map you simply noticed. That was fairly cool, really, that farm map. I guess you guys are gonna be mad at me that that is not in Stardew Valley anymore.”
“Mad” is perhaps overstating it, however I gotta say, I am now retroactively a bit of disillusioned that this map did not make the ultimate sport. It gives a whole overview of your whole farm, which might be very helpful for planning out all of your crops and constructing areas. And, like… maps are simply cool! I would love to have the ability to get a extra complete birds-eye view of what I am creating within the vanilla sport, however alas, it appears it was not meant to be.
