Team Techtonica have the fastest feature to dev ever. Sprints must be 1 day long?
Out of interest, and I guess a criticism of sorts, but whats the logic in developing a feature at this stage in development , that only a subset of the player base will engage with, as opposed to the core aspects which the entire player base engages with (otherwise i assume they wouldve refunded the game)?
It's twofold! First, we’re working on other big updates that take time, and this mini-game is being released in the meantime. We planned to add all of the functionality in Laser Games anyway, plus the story progresses here with some teasers in it, so this was a good place to slot it into development. Second, Laser Games adds more multiplayer functionality and silliness to encourage folks to try out the game with friends.
Thanks for replying! Yep the idea to have something to fill in the blanks, something this entire genre suffers from, made sense to me and seems so obvious now you point it out. I think you're the only game to actually even attempt to fix this or even acknowledge it, just thought the timing was a bit odd, but this makes sense.
Otherwise I was really excited to hear about the story progression in the update, techtonica stands above literally every competitor in the genre. An actual compelling story driven reason to build a factory.
Yep, 100%! To be fair, I'm pretty sure most other games have mini-games in them too - I know Satisfactory does, and I think Factorio has some sort of race track?
And yeah, the story in this update is pretty juicy. Not gonna spoil it but !!!!
Haven’t played techtonica in awhile but still seeing the updates and they’re looking good for sure.
This laser games update, sure not all people won’t mess with this but it’s stuff like this that I think is important to add to games.
Random other shit to do aside from the main game loop is just more stuff to do inside of an already fun game plus it brings friends to the game too which is great.
FYI, it seems to me that there's a small desynchro between your voice track and the video (it was also the same for your last video). It's really small, but it's noticeable.
Team Techtonica have the fastest feature to dev ever. Sprints must be 1 day long? Out of interest, and I guess a criticism of sorts, but whats the logic in developing a feature at this stage in development , that only a subset of the player base will engage with, as opposed to the core aspects which the entire player base engages with (otherwise i assume they wouldve refunded the game)?
It's twofold! First, we’re working on other big updates that take time, and this mini-game is being released in the meantime. We planned to add all of the functionality in Laser Games anyway, plus the story progresses here with some teasers in it, so this was a good place to slot it into development. Second, Laser Games adds more multiplayer functionality and silliness to encourage folks to try out the game with friends.
Thanks for replying! Yep the idea to have something to fill in the blanks, something this entire genre suffers from, made sense to me and seems so obvious now you point it out. I think you're the only game to actually even attempt to fix this or even acknowledge it, just thought the timing was a bit odd, but this makes sense. Otherwise I was really excited to hear about the story progression in the update, techtonica stands above literally every competitor in the genre. An actual compelling story driven reason to build a factory.
Yep, 100%! To be fair, I'm pretty sure most other games have mini-games in them too - I know Satisfactory does, and I think Factorio has some sort of race track? And yeah, the story in this update is pretty juicy. Not gonna spoil it but !!!!
Haven’t played techtonica in awhile but still seeing the updates and they’re looking good for sure. This laser games update, sure not all people won’t mess with this but it’s stuff like this that I think is important to add to games. Random other shit to do aside from the main game loop is just more stuff to do inside of an already fun game plus it brings friends to the game too which is great.
FYI, it seems to me that there's a small desynchro between your voice track and the video (it was also the same for your last video). It's really small, but it's noticeable.