ECO: Minecraft clone, sort of

[BoberFett]

Is anyone else following ECO?

http://www.strangeloopgames.com/eco/

I kept seeing pushes for their Kickstarter and decided to back it.

I like the idea of Minecraft, but it's a bit too open for me and never held my interest for long. I still like to have goals, which it seems like this will have. And it's aiming to have a working ecosystem, player economies, and systems of law among other things, which sounds like interesting (if a bit ambitious) to me.

 

[clok1966]

I really enjoyed minecraft myself, create, love those type of games. But in the end I found it like you said, to open. The create side won me over, but the massive long night cycle slows gameplay down to much in the start of the game. Some sleep (maybe to recover a heart or two) to shorten the night cycle would be nice (but impossible for servers) in solo mode. That could make the creative side more appealing.

but there are a metric TON of clones ECO would really have to do something special to stand out.

 

[DigDog]

any gameplay videos? or is it just a concept paper?

 

[TrevorGtAV]

seems interesting would like to see some gameplays as well.

 

[BoberFett]

Me as well. I'm not aware of any videos yet. Alpha is supposedly starting soon, so we'll see what happens.

 

[DigDog]

yeah but im not supporting any paper concepts; show me you went ahead and developed a working alpha, and maybe them i'll support it. otherwise it's just money wasted.

 

[BoberFett]

There are some videos in their YouTube channel that appear to be a working engine. Take that for what you will.

https://www.youtube.com/user/StrangeLoopGame/videos