is a sandbox 2D game. If you like Minecraft, space exploration, and mission based story this game might be for you. This is a PC only game and is avaliable through Steam as Early release. Yes, you get to play this game while it is still in Beta. When you buy the game you get two different versions:
1. Stable, which is the lasted full working version
2. Unstable. the current game in progress it updates every night and gives you the chance to play as they make it. The only issues though is tons of bugs and saved data being deleted randomly.
Unlike most games, Starbound actually fully supports modding. The Starbound team on Chucklefish forums actually lets users modify their code for their own use, they will even give out templates of all the new coding formats for the modders' use. This game is a modder's paradise in how easy it is to mod and what you can do with it. Even the online multiplayer servers can support modding, and unlike all other games, you can still join a modded server without the need of mods, you just won't be able to see custom races or have anything that they have.
So onto what I have been doing.
Knowing me I must always put myself into the game I'm playing if modding is allowed. So I happened across the lucario race mod that adds the lucario species as playable. So I get the mod then I tried out the character creator... well I couldn't make myself on there so I sought out lessons from Dilrax. Soon enough I developed a full pixel sprite of myself and made a separate copy version of the lucario mod, zancuno.
At the time I had no idea you could make custom vanity armors to insert in the game and add your OC anyways. Although this separate mod became useful. I sought out how to learn how to mod from Dilrax, who is one of the masterminds behind RenTek: Project Armoury. Just a little info, RenTek is one of the highest sought for mods in Starbound due to it's inclusion of music players, armor, and weapons. So I began learning from him how to mod. First it was just pixel sprites and how to add them into the game
(my Fiance's custom sprite in the works, the body and legs sprite.)
Later on it went to fixing the lucario mod. You see, the lucario mod had actually been outdated by the time I found it. In fact when I started posting about it. It just came back to life. Since then I have received permission to work on this mod. All of my fixes so far are not in the public version but I have done things like:
Make mod exclusive shield playable
Make all mod exclusive swords playable with custom crafting table fixed
Introduce some new furniture (not done with this)
Introduce some new crafting materials (The auracite crystals)
It actually takes a bit of work in order to make these mod inclusions. I mean just look at my screen as I'm doing this
Although even though the fixes are not public yet, I still highly encourage that this mod is used in the game play. I'm currently working on NPCs, furniture, and armor as of now so expect that in the mod (whenever Ochiru Yuki lets me send my version. Time zone differences).
(ignore the human title above, that has been fixed)
If you are interested or have this game, I can reply with some links
Until then, this is how Starbound looks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZGJjJLFps
