So I have recently started playing Vintage Story and it seems like it would be a good game to make some fat mods for, since it is very food heavy and has a first person mode that lets you see the player model
I have not looked into the Modding API for it yet, but it has modding API as well
I love the game and all, and it’s apparently designed for modding support, but the game’s too niche for most modders to bother, the game’s only purchasable on Itch and on their website for $20-ish, which really limits the playerbase.
The fact the player characters are weird lanky 7’ tall Endermen-people fallen-god things that talk in musical instruments doesn’t help, it gives them a bit more of a niche appeal, unless modders swap their models out entirely.
Also the game being 10x harder and 10x more time consuming than Minecraft means a lot of people simply aren’t gonna buy it at all in the first place, despite being a great game.
to be fair minecraft was just it’s own website, and the game has an extensive amount of mods already.
But word of mouth is more or less how a game like this gets around, I am a programmer but not a modeler, I will be looking into modding the game when I have free time, getting modelers who are good at making blockly fat models would be the hard part
Minecraft doing all their sales through their website was fine because the game became a cultural phenomenon in basically no time via 4chan and Reddit, and filled its own niche where it could sell a bazillion copies.
VS has been out for like 8 years now and most people still haven’t even heard of it, and the majority of players who DO try it complain about difficulty or tedium, so it’s not like there’s a tidal wave of hungry consumers rushing to play it.
VS was designed as a way to fight against the simple and casual direction that Minecraft was taking (like Better Than Wolves did), but progressed so slowly that now there’s a bazillion survival crafting games and a ton of survival crafting mods for Minecraft to compete with, and it’s hard to really advertise your existence when there’s 99999 other survival crafting games, all on Steam, cheaper, not such a pain to play, and easier to buy.
It’d be cool if the game got attention and more funding, and a huge modding community full of SFW and NSFW mods, but I don’t see it.
Basically, I’ll give a thumbs up for any modder trying to make naughty mods for VS, but I 100% expect them to drop it or quit.
Having played Vintage Story for multiple hours and having killed a bear with basic Spears I have a a Bowl of Thoughts Soup.
The game isn’t that hard or tedious, but the progression is slow, but it is there and feels much better than minecraft.
Vintage Story Fixes minecraft by being what it isn’t, because Vintage Story exist I really have no issue with minecrafts direction anymore, drawing the clear line between what Survival (vintage story) and Fun for everyone (Minecraft) is.
Vintage Story is small because people do not talk about it, Minecraft only became huge because people talked about it and shared stuff online, if the people who play Vintage Story don’t share the game or make reasons for people to play the game then new people wont play the game.
How many people on WG got starbound because of Star Pounds, I would guess a few, and how many would get Vintage Story if it had a mod similar, Star Pounds is a hard mod to play, especially if you are not playing casual, but it is fun.
Vintage Story also has very customizable world settings akin to Factorio so people can make the game as easy or hard as they want.
Is it a perfect game, no, but if you liked 1.7.10 minecraft mod packs, then you would probably enjoy vintage story.
Game is cool and hopefully I will get around to or get people to help make some goofy mods for it because it would be fun.
And Vintage Story is also on Itch, so it isn’t just it’s website, but word of mouth and people helping people is what got minecraft going, and at least you don’t need to trail and error crafting recipes in Vintage Story