Final 12 months, Stardew Valley acquired an enormous free replace as a result of its creator, Eric Barone, didn’t need to cease bettering the beloved cozy farming sport even eight years after it had launched. However now, he sounds dedicated to shifting on from Stardew Valley for just a few years whereas he winds up his beforehand introduced subsequent sport, Haunted Chocolatier.
In a brand new interview with PC Gamer, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone (identified on-line as ConcernedApe) defined that he actually does “love” his hit indie sport and desires all of its followers to “have a fantastic expertise.” So he’s at all times “involved” about Stardew Valley and desires to ensure “it’s doing nicely.” Nevertheless, he concedes that this has pulled him away from Haunted Chocolatier, a sport he began improvement on in 2020 and introduced formally in October 2021.
“I feel in some unspecified time in the future I’m going to need to utterly reduce off every thing else,” Barone instructed PC Gamer. “Truthfully, I’ve thought of, possibly I ought to simply go right into a cabin within the woods and utterly get off the web, and simply say, ‘Okay guys, I’ll see you in two years. You gained’t hear from me in any respect and I’m going to complete this sport.’”
And whereas he won’t truly go stay in a cabin within the woods for just a few years, he did make it clear that Stardew Valley’s 1.6 replace is “fairly settled at this level” and most bugs have been squashed or mounted.
“I’m dedicated to not engaged on Stardew Valley till I’m accomplished with Haunted Chocolatier…I feel it’s in a great place. I really feel very stable about it,” mentioned Barone. “I feel if anybody picks up Stardew Valley for the primary time in 2025, I’m very happy with it, and I feel they’ll have enjoyable with it in the event that they like this type of sport.”
As for Haunted Chocolatier, Barone says that after engaged on the sport on and off for practically 5 years, he’s had to return and utterly “redo” elements of it.
“And it’s not it’s not prefer it’s even unhealthy, it’s simply—a part of the issue of being, like particularly a solo dev, is it takes so lengthy to make a sport. I’m actually a special particular person in 4 years, so it’s like my entire emotions about every thing have modified—my aesthetic sensibilities have advanced,” mentioned Barone.
Whereas folks watch for Haunted Chocolatier, they will play Stardew Valley on mainly each platform underneath the solar, together with consoles, cell gadgets, and PC.
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