'Valheim': Vikings, Roadmaps & Buying a Horse During Early Access
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- In this 2024 Independent Games Summit talk, Jonathan Smårs shares insight into the Valheim development journey so far through a patch-by-patch breakdown and managing player expectations spanning multiple years of development during early access and lessons learned along the way, both internal and external challenges that have emerged, and oh - and they bought a horse.
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Jonathan gave me a world where I could build a home that lasted longer than any apartment I've lived in, until my hard drive failed for separate reasons and I lost much of it as I had not kept up with backups.
I've spent 1000 hrs soon. Much of it with a close friend. We've started a new save for Ashlands. We turned off raids this time, and gave ourselves the ability to build for free.
I have a lot of love for this man, his team, and his odd beautiful game.
"..we don't have any MX or require you to be online or battlepasses or like invasive DRM and bs like that." Best marketing strategy ever. Thank you for making an awesome game and keeping it customer friendly!
Tyty
so the lead designer is a voluntary fire fighter, huh? first of all, this is awesome.
second, it explains the smoke & suffocation mechanics lmao
third, gg.
One of my favourite mechanics in building. It adds such an organic complexity to base building and just feels super immersive. Voxels are awesome :D
The devs from this game are amazing, such a small team with an amazing vision, thinking big and going all in, this is what we need in gaming industry to carry the future of development.
Ty so much for the world modifiers. I play on multiple servers; some set hard, some normal, some days on my personal server set to passive enemies when I just want to build after a bad rl day. It has helped sooo much.
I can't express this enough, but thank you so so much Iron Gate Studio's. I have been gaming for over 20 years and have played 100s of games, but Valheim is my favorite game of all time. 1500 hours in and I still can't get enough of it. I look forward to it every single weekend. Literally the best $20 I have ever spent. Don't let all the stubborn haters get to you guys. You made a masterpiece of a game and you know it! Keep up the hard work and stay true to your vision!
Valheim is an amazing game, maybe one of the best in its class. I’m happy to wait for a perfect finish.
Jonathan was incredible and seemed so straightfoward and genuine, loved this talk.
This is the best game in my life. It's great to get some info about development.
I'm half through the talk and it's awesome! I love Valheim (over 100h on Steam). As a dev it's a great piece of information.
great stuff smarsbar
Look at my boat, my boat is amazing
Based devs!
6:07 correct me if i miscounted the biome, 9? Meadows, black forest, swamp, mountain and plain. That are 5. Now we have mistland and ashland that are 7. Deep north that is 8.
Do he count ocean aswell or they didnt but count ygrassil branch as one?
My Valheim journey launched during the great Texas Snowpocalypse of 2021. Great times.
Ohhh we can blame Robin for the bats!!! They are the most annoying lol
Havent played this game in a year. Gonna have to try it again
not worth it
@@NZMPlays It still sucks. Going back to Elden Ring. 😆
@@TheGreatThimble Valheim is perhaps the biggest let down in early access development history honestly.
how did you manage this extremely slow cadence on an infinite budget and super simple art pipeline? I am genuinely curious what happened there
Tiny team with 7 hour workdays, regular vacations. No slave driving or crunch.
@@hieronymushumble5716 14 people. Its not a tiny team. Its been 14 people since late 2021. Stop making excuses. 7 hour work days is PLENTY of time lol what are you talking about?
How can i make a stoneportal inddorrs ?
I like valheim because it is a co-op/solo game and that you can play as a viking and roleplay as one with friends. I used to play How to Train Your Dragon: School of Dragons and I want more viking gameplay and ended up liking Valheim instead.
52:11 Oh look, it's a live demo of Valheim gameplay since they won't add more inventory slots!
JK, much love to you, Iron Gate team.
Too slow with the updates.
but for real tho, Why are there not bikes in Valheim?
8:15 based
Bikes in valheim is not a troll account 😔
Love the perspective that in early access the game shifts ownership from devs to players. Sorta subtle point but shows they care and respect their audience. Seems like a very pro-consumer guy/studio. Thanks iron gate
Why is there a weight limit in the game?
Probably so you can't carry your base with you everywhere you go.
+1 Time Consuming Inventory Management is something that has more and more become a reason for me not to (re)play or buy a game. Sorting chests and transporting cargo over and over again ... I did this too often in too many games (the recent Diablo IV update shows that I'm not alone with this). Generous inventory sizes are always a plus point for me. Where are the upgradeable deer backpacks and the carry-all food? 😅😅
Mod it out if you don't like it. Not a fan of it either tbh.
When things have weight they increase the feel of immersion. Also creates logistical problems in need of solving.
when does the talk actually start?
Boop
These developers are just straight up LIARS. They said "releasing on Xbox wont affect development", then in this video "yea multiplatform took time and a lot of work". They said "we added bats in a single day" and then took 1.5 years to do anything even close to that level of productivity. "spending time getting merch done" then telling us working on merch doesnt affect the dev speed. "we are a small team" when they are 14 entire individuals. There seems to be no real developer structure here, no direction, no actual commitment to being a game company. They have literally divested into making everything except the game. No focus on optimization, no competency in listening to feedback.
A speaker that doesnt have any certainty in what they are saying, half of their points are indecisive and uncertain. Just feeding falsities into the PR machine. "Do people like this game?" after making 12 million sales. Like, stop treating us like idiots. So tired of this company and their blase attitude.
Here is the solution for you - don't play it. You don't like that they don't have the structure? Well, they are making a game as they want, and it works. And it's still in early access, but you treat it as if it was a full game. The audacity to tell them what they should do is wild
@@hirourk No, I treat it as an early access game that should have WAY more going on by now. There is no excuse. Sorry you want to accept poor quality laziness as gospel.
@@NZMPlays I just stopped playing after plains. Because they are too slow and don't fix major problems. And that's why I don't complain
Supporting and even endorsing using early access as a kickstarter to get funds to make a game is some absolutely disgusting practice and has lowered my perception of these devs.
basically, from what i see, they been really lazy all these years. The bat is something they made in a day in put in?
I made this feedback before and got banned from their discussion thread for pointing that they blew all their animation budget for hearth and home trailer and give us some wood furniture here and there. The game's barren but good to a degree but the level of laziness these guys have is off the charts.
they'll hit 1.0 release and close shop. u'll see.
"Uhm" I couldn't finish this video, "uh!" that speech vice is awful, uhm! Hire, uhm, someone else that really knows who to, uhm, speak!
The game is great and I love the whole Iron Gate team but this talk is kind of rought
I for one am extremely happy to hear the actual dev talk and not some marketing puppet or public presenter without an actual connection to the game.
@@Bassalicious I agree with you, devs should be king in this industry but out of purely public speaking point of view (which is just kind of rough for most people) this was a rough talk
scrappy, honest, valuable
@@eksplosiveknight That's fair yeah
Maybe finish your game eh?
🤦
What? Hearth and Home was my favorite update!
I disagree with the "players" 😘
Ok, nice, but seriously when Valheim 2? Game with better combat, less grindy, less punishing, less inventory management and less annoying stamina system.
sooo less Valheim? go and play something else I'd say ;) Enshrouded might be up your alley.
@@Bassalicious building is better in enshrouded but otherwise it's just about a poor copy of Valheim. And Valheim is getting old.. guess I have to go back to Minecraft
@@themalmana Totally fair. I just really don't think Valheim should become easier or soften its features in general.
There is also always mods to try out if you're on PC.
@@Bassalicious I agree it shouldn't be easier but more respectful of my time. Instead of artificially lengthening the game they should encourage creativity to solve the problems they present vs go to the place, mine 3 hours and bring it back. The design decisions like always out of stamina, always encumbered or never level up are NOT working towards making the game more fun but for making the game longer.
@@themalmana It's really a matter of taste but I get your pov. I enjoy resource gathering and having to think about logistics personally. I like feeling like I worked for what I have but I get that it can feel like chores.
There's mods for infinite carry weight and easier stamina management or even infinite stamina if you so desire. Set portals to allow ore in the world settings in addition and away you go.
For me personally these things would make the game worse but they're the option is there for anyone who disagrees.