Rysen, the mind behind the compo-winning Phoenix Flame, has released an early demo of a Harvest Moon clone called [Rysen Rancher]. Anyone who has played Harvest Moon will find the premise, gameplay and graphics very familiar -- as a farmer boy with a cute hat, you use an array of tools to clear fields, till soil, and raise crops, which you can then sell for money in order to buy more crops, and eventually cows and so forth. Those who never played the Harvest Moon series might scoff at the idea of a farming game, but it's surprisingly fun.

Rysen Rancher is in a very early stage of development, and this demo showcases the basic gameplay elements but is a little aimless, as spring never ends and the farmer never tires. There are also a number of bugs, and the hit detection is a bit spotty, since, as with many V3 games, RR really wants to be tile-based. However, it's interesting to see the mechanics of Harvest Moon translated to VERGE, and things like the town promise to be very interesting once fully implemented. For now, the infrastructure is all in, and the graphics and music are very pleasant and atmospheric -- the tool animations in particular are dangerously adorable.

Farming sims aren't for everybody, but if you feel that there hasn't been enough hoeing in VERGE games thus far, you should definitely give Rysen Rancher a look. This is one to keep an eye on.

I noticed that but was too lazy to correct it. BTW, it's also possible to bring up the menus in textboxes, and whenever I did this the game hung when I exited the menus. Also, the librarian doesn't disappear when she walks into the library -- she just stands in the doorway.

for some reason, any seeds you planted before you saved don't sprout when you continue your game....

this could be patch related or not I dunno

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with select tools, when you use them a white pixel / box appears towards the top right of the character


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also, rysen- I love ya man this thing is fscking awesome. I can't wait for another release. I spent probably almost 3 hours dinking around with it.

oh and one other tiny little thing, you see, these two very large boulders... I remove them, and they come back when I continue (patched too).

I can grow rocks faster than turnips! ^_^

thems is big boulders! ;)

They... almost look like a clam :o

You mean you're too lazy to find a good pirated version of winxp?

Quote:Originally posted by ThinIce

You mean you're too lazy to find a good pirated version of winxp?

I mean 1. WinXP has as many problems as it does good points 2. Almost all Microsoft products nowadays are starting to have such flagrant disregard for privacy and sanity.

I will upgrade if and when Microsoft stops it with the world domination crap. I will even buy it as a gesture of goodwill. When will Microsoft realize that in the long run trying to control everything and everyone will do nothing but hurt them.

Quote:Originally posted by Rysen
Overkill figures it's probably something to do with is console. Zonker had the same problem. Check out this post:
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That might solve the problem.

Yay! It worky now!

On a semi-related note: In my project LoadFont also causes this for some reason, and startmap in the config file is completely ignored.