Introducing the Avians
May 26, 2012 in Featured, Media, News
Hello guys,
Today I want to introduce our first playable race, the Avians.
Avian culture revolves around the worship of Kluex, the winged god of the Aether. Avians believe they were stripped of their wings as punishment for entering the mortal world and will only regain their wings in the afterlife should they achieve absolution through worship.Throughout their history Avians have always been a primitive race, making little scientific progress. Avian numbers were beginning to dwindle when a superior race took pity and bestowed the gift of advanced technology upon them. This new found tech allowed the Avians to flourish and spread across the universe, building temples of worship as they go.
Avians soldiers are trained from birth to be fierce warriors and will protect their temples at any cost. Avian weaponry may look primitive at first glance, but the incorporation of advanced technology makes them particularly formidable. Avian generals forge wings for themselves that function much like jetpacks.
Though rare, Avians have been known to stray from their religious culture. Dubbed the grounded, these Avians become outcasts and find solace amongst other races.
A randomly generated, Avian temple.
ME GUSTA !!
looks awesome, really really awesome, and im glad the first race is an acient race, also are you going to add some mech races aswell?
Wow! That was unexpected. But great work!
I think I know what race I’m playing….. ;)
Epic!
Can’t wait to try this, hurrryyyy D:
thnik i might die from waiting to, D: dont let me die!
GENIUS! Tyi, it looks amazing. Good job, nice sprites…nice…*nerdgasm overflow* xO
Im most likely playing this race.
I hope they have a lizard race like with the lizard in the wallpaper :D
Tiy being sacrificed.
If you are a different race, can they capture you and sacrafice you???
Maybe you could sacrafice other races
Maybe you start like that or u can transofrm in them like that.
Or if you are a grounded outcast.
It’s his stunt double.
I can already see that i will be playing this game for a very long time after release.
If all the races are this awesome, you guys are making a good job
Fantastically fabulous! This game is getting better and better with every update, and it was already amazing!
Will we be able to slaughter the Avians and take all the loot in their temple?
I bet you will, you will probary be able to slay (almost) everything.
But there should be infinitely more planets, world generation on the fly for the win.
You MIGHT be an Avian
i perfure being diffent, so i shall be a outcast called The Rex, ether way, am not warshiping some radom god guy, wings can become over rated to be striped of. still, >;o
Oh i hope they will add orbital bombardment xD then there will be no Avians left in the temple and you can take the loot from the rubble (or just bombard them with a bio weapon xD )
Nice! Bird people! I wonder what other combinations you have all come up with…
Considering how there will be a frozen biome of sorts… perhaps there will be ice/snow people too?
Well… what i would like would be maybe elemaentals, like icy avians, ar fire, like that, so you could have say… an Ice-Wolf Man
Wow, the lore behind this is awesome, and the race is very creative, i
can’t wait to see what other races your going to come up with, also lol
religious wars, or just race wars x3
Major ME GUSTA!
Looking forward to this
New posts do a very good job at making me want the game more. It looks amazing
Amazing!!!
Just one Question When?????????????????????
SOUNDS GREAT!! :-D
Now this looks really awesome. Is that a sacrifice going on there?
You guys need to stop making this game. Right now.
And invent a time machine, build it, and give it to me.
THEN you can finish the game while I time travel to when it’s done.
:Db I can’t wait.
If they were to stop and make you a time machine, it would probably take longer to build than to fininsh the game….. so you want to wait longer?
Well if they were to make a time machine, they could just go back and give it to him before they made it.
It would take longer to invent the time machine then to just make the game.
But then they could use the time machine to go back to when they started building the time machine and give it to doubtful, and continue to work on their project, thereby finishing in the same amount of time.
so have you gotten a time machine from your future self???
i would wait for a TARDIS :)
Or, get mutple of em, buy travling to when they finshed it and take it again to get more :D
This.
Cannot be release.
It needs to be released.
Right fucking now.
Excellent choice for first race (from a self-appointed avian appreciator!) And the lore behind them draws me in even more. Kudos :)
I heart chocobos
I suggest a Alien Race with like a force field that can absorb dmg till its out of power but over time, it will regenerate
Are you refering to the Protoss? Or maybe a race just like them but not copyright to Blizzard? ;)
There should be a starcraft reference in the game somewhere.
Sc2 ftw :D toss
maybe one of the space ships you might see would be a battlecruser or a mothership
awesome idea(i love star craft :D)
WH40K did it first. Just sayin’
And the first race is amazing. And with history!
Glad to know that the races will actually have some depth
You have now added depth of character and a new race to a game we are desperately waiting for. And this is only the first other race.
I believe the words for our excitement are “BUCK YES”
I cannot stress enough how much I am looking forward to this. Give us preorder soon! Or demo! Or something!!! :)
I’d actually really be interested in seeing an aquatic race, that needs a re-breather (One you get on start, or easy to make) to be on land.
Having aquatic race that starts in underwater habitat would be great! :)
That is an awesome idea.
would there be a real God/Boss as the Avians?? if there is that would be awesomely cool. And plz add aquatic races and make a companion system.
Crab people….crab people…
http://zipmeme.com/uploads/generated/g1339470507343576102.jpg
epic
You’re welcome.
GIANT ENEMY CRAB BOSS NOW.
I would love to see an aquatic race, complete with entire underwater civilizations and unique buildings.
Yea, having suits to be able to be on land or something would be a cool aspect of gameplay, if the suit gets damaged perhaps then you have air bubbles that signify that you need to get into water to breath or something?
Well. I mentioned re-breathers because they’re small and would only take up a single spot in armor or your inventory, rather then a full suit. And yeah, that’s what I was thinking, that it’d be cool if there was some sort of underwater race that has advantages underwater but also have the disadvantage of needing a re-breather on land.
or you could have the ability to put a rebreather inside your helmet so that they don’t become a hassle on irradiated planets where you need a radiation helmet AND a rebreather.
Perfect.
But rebreathers don’t work backwards. It’d need to be some kind of device that cycles oxygenated water through their mouths and out of their gills…
Well. Something of a re-breather. I was just using it as an example of how something like that would work. A small device that they keep in their mouths and that hook to their gills, it circulates water through some sort of underwater plant that gives off oxygen so they can breath on land.
fish bowl over head perhaps?
Nah. I’m kinda trying to stay away from that. >.< Cause I'd rather have a more technological helm then just a big bowl.
Fish Bowl would be very childish :/ So I hope that if developers will decide to make an aquatic race they will also stay away from such idea.
its a game hows about you can craft your breathing equipment that come with different stats or just give your character a different look so if you want to be childish and have a bit of fun you can craft a fishbowl (like the one in terraria) or you can craft a more serious looking breathing equipment…
it would give it kind of a good, quirky, silly feel. but i do agree with some sort of rebreather (don’t mind if it would be unrealistic, just prefer it to be.)
Or maybe you start with a fish bowl as the most basic thing, and you upgrade from there.
Yes yes yes!
what if there was a place to inplant stuff sto it could be inplanted and later have more uses like inplanting armor (but inplantments are explnsive)???????
the unique buildings should have no central area to do things I say the furniture should be tied down with something like seaweed that if it breaks the furniture will float away unless it is dense enough to hold it’s self down.
HELL YEAH, an aqautic bi-pedal race would be awesome!
Anthropomorphic dolphins, maybe? It’d be cooler than a gilled species.
Nooooo Dophins are dicks! Another species, probably something more interesting (Lionfish?)
Otters! Space otters!
You, my friend, are a genius
I Second that motion!
how about fish-humans hybrids or shark-humans
SPACE OTTERS! Yay!
otters. yes. i love otters. k.
On the contrary, we need a more shark-like species. Something that is like a shark, but is also (A) bipedal, (B) omnivorous, and (C) not just a bipedal shark. By that last one I mean, try to mix another species in there, like Lionfish, manta rays, swordfish, Dragonfish, or something along those lines.
Dragonfish sounds entertaining. =P I really would like to see a shark like race though, cause I love sharks.
Who says it has to look like anything from Earth? This is an ALIEN species we are talking about! Did a shark and a lion fish teleport to an ocean planet and have little lionshark babies? Make up your own species! It could have features similar to things on Earth, but needs to have that alien feel to it.
How about something that looks like a mix between an virorb and Abe Sapien (http://darkhorse.wikia.com/wiki/Abe_Sapien), or maybe (do I dare say?) just a bipedal crystal serpent? +3 to you, 1 for logical thinking, 2 for great point and idea.
Yeah, but who’s to say sharks couldn’t be on another planet? although unlikely, there’s a possibility that they could have just came from the same or similar cell.
exactly
Shark-like fishman with swordfish hand? Win. lol
I’d think a shark could be Bi-Pedal without another species, although it would be unrealistic. Still be cool.
I say that this wold be a good idea but a cuddle fish would make a lot of sense as well it has a stun mechanism that helps it fight and catch prey and the small ones already semi-walk on the ocean floor…along with a lion fish to make it a bit more durable and somewhat larger
Why not make it like the Vogons in Hitchikers guide to the galaxy, so that way it works on land and sea, but moves slower and is less efficient on land? SLUGMEN!
Mermaids/Mermen
Also, otters are not exclusively aquatic. They don’t even have gills. Get with the logics here, please.
Well obviously. I’m not that retarded.
But a rebreather could just be used for them… or they could be evolved Otter-Fish… OR OTTER-SHARKS!
Yes, but dolphins don’t have gills either. Nonetheless, sea otters in particular never spend a day of their lives on land despite being built for it, and therefore count as aquatic animals.
YES We need more Space Otters!
Space Otters! FTW!
Yes.
Shut up lion fish/cuttlefish people it doesn’t have to be logical! PENGUINS/OTTERS FOR THE WIN!!!
YESS!!!!! Otters FTW!
how about beards?
I’m totally in favor with this, or something like it
Oh yes! That would be epic! Fish men, or maybe a Cthulhu style octopus-ish society.. or… dare I dream…. sea monkeys???
I think you mean sharks.
Playable sharks.
An Ecco The Dolphin race, me needs.
no just cthulhu. best race ever.
I second the Sharks. >>
how bout cyborg sharks they wouldnt need rebreathers but would be harmed more by electricity because it would fry there circuts
yes!
i third the sharks
it would be quite cool to have big underwater biomes, not just 8 meter deep lakes, like big oceans
That’s kinda what I’m hoping for. Because I love games that actually make a decent effort to make the underwater mechanics as good as everything else. There’s to many games that have focus on land based stuff and then when it comes to an underwater section it fails horribly.
Did You played game called “Aquaria” maybe? It is an example of a game with great effort to mage underwater mechanics very good. Unfortunatly, I am affraid that this is only because 99% of the game is taking place… Well, underwater of course. Anyway, I think that this game could be a good example for developers when dealing with underwater enviroment and so.
Wow dood that’s actually a really good idea! i hope the devs are listening >:D
1 i love you for your pic thing, 2 i have yet to see any comments about the race that they made :/
aww. thanks a bunch fella >;D.
By our freakin’ founding fathers…
…YOU SIR, are a genius. That would be amazing!
Perhaps the aquatic race would be friendly with most aquatic creatures, or maybe they would aid you in combat… or maybe only the aquatic race could make certain weapons, armors and tools… :3
Yo! Tiy! You better be seeing this guy!
yea…
or they could wear a fishbowl :)
No wearing fishbowls, that’s too primitive, illogical, and childish in genral.
Ah man, a fantastic thought for this fantasy world! To be able to explore them as any other race would be an interesting touch as well, such as via the need of diving gear- ranging from relatively futuristic of course given the setting (sort of imagine those Pokemon breathing devices that they just slot in their mouths) to more primitive diving tanks given on which race you may begin as.
And yes, I was geeky enough to recommend something from the original Poke’mon. Season one, represent!
Hehe. No worries, Pokémon is fine. And yeah, well, there is bound to be planets with more water then land on them, and naturally the evolutionary chain would dictate that most of them ended up aquatic in some form or another. It’d be amazing to be able to go as a separate race and explore these underwater cities and stuff if you have the proper gear.
trust me buddy we my go out play football with jocks or hang out with the goths but what makes you a geek is for one being one this thread you ether are a very in depth gamer who wants to know everything anyone thinks the game should go to or you are a geek and want to know the same all in all we are all pretty geeky in or own way here so go ahead and make any reference you want hell I am extremely geeky if you say your a geek for watching pokemon I have watched all the original pokemon at least a dozen times played all the games through and through at least twenty times and,though it has barely anything in common to this jumble of words, I have watch all the Doctor Who shows with all of the Doctors until now and have burnt out DVD players and VHS tapes watching all of these.
They would be the Merfolk, from Terraria. That would be awesome. And genius idea by the way.
Oh please no, they were so ugly.
The merfolk from terraria? I’m not saying I wouldn’t like that, but games need to have original stuff in them. I’ve gone through terraria to endgame 100% legitamate in singleplayer, and I don’t regret it. The thing is, I’ve seen enough terraria to last me untill I get bored of TF2 again.
Aquatic race would rule!!!! armed woth tridents and a pet gold fish of course =D
they should worship posiden and cthulu
that an excellent idea man they can make all these kinds of diferent races with advantages and disadvantages like for example the avians can fly a little while the underwater dudes can breath underwater and swim better etc, + itl be good for race wars LOL imagine you invading another players world that is mostly made of water and being filled with the aquatic dudes and to wage war or explore this planet as an avian you will need a special underwater helmet or something and viceversa for the aquatic dudes going into an air world of sorts they would need like a jetpack or something.
the rebreather for exploring land on the aquatic race is an awesome idea too
they can make so many races suited for different biomes with different advantages and disadvantages and traits it would be awesome.
Totally!!! Great idea! Fish-men! or Walrus-men!
/women
Yeah, but walrus breathe air don’t they? For this to be a good idea, it has to be an acual fish, not just marine life that breathes air.
How about just make it able to breath both?
It would be pretty un-even to give it the ability to breath water, and then let it just make something to breath on land with ease.
I’m pretty sure all the air breathing races will be dead outmatched by it. But that’s kind’ve what I want to see, I don’t get why these ones can’t fly. If not that, glide. Give each race a difference to make it worth wile to play as them instead of just making them look different.
How about a Cyborg-Otterish race that lives underwater and has a built in rebreather, harpoon guns and best of all PENGUIN PETS!!!.
They would also live in something like the gungan city in star wars.
Um, there is an aquatic race. It’s called the Hylotl race.
But Tiy, how can you tell us this if you were sacrificed?
Ok… So, this looks as really great job. The thing which I like most in it, is not the Avians themselfs, but the fact that it is a really serious creation. When I look at let’s say Bad Moon I can see a joke. I like it. I think it is a good joke, but it will remine only unserious joke (I am talking about it’s day time outlook ONLY). Avians looks more serious. And they have interesting background. So, seeing that devs are taking it more serious is really good. This is my opinion and I know that many people will disagree with me, but it will not change my opinion. I can only hope that most of You will agree with me.
Now, as for the Avians themselfs… I like the idea of them being spiritual race, which is making their equipment looking as an arhaic one, when in reallity it is modern one. I like their story and overlary I find them very interesting race. What I would suggest is to change their tip of the spears. Right now it look the same as our during stone age (correct me if I am wrong please). I think that making them (tips of the spears) looking more as a bird’s claw would be fitting to this race. Of course this is only my opinion and nobody has to agree with that. Also, those tips of the spears are not an important stuff anyway ;)
I do agree with you that the bad moon did look, in fact, a joke (this was because of its unusual appearence, though a very formidable foe, I do not mean to offend the creator of th bad moon
I also agree that the Avians seem more serious due to their unique culture (I’m very glad to hear that other playable races will be implimented :D)
As for the spear, a bird claw might look good on it.
I’m not sure if their race looks like they’re in the stone age in terms of appearance, they look like they’re in the age similar to that of the Aztecs.
Kratos7560 I am very glad that You do agree with what I said about Bad Mood (I will say it again – it is a joke, bat a very good joke) and about the Avians (and their seriousnes). I also do not want to offend creator of a Bad Moon – I will add that I love the idea of an enemy which is not dangerous during certian time of day, but deadly during diffrent time of day.
As for similarities of Avians… Well, I have to agree with You. Now when I look on them and read about their religious lifestyle, I see also plenty similarities to Aztecs.
Thanks for the reply. I hope they release more information onthe Avians in terms of naming conventions as well as attributes that will be used in game such as speed, stength, etc.
Yes, it would be good to know more about Avians. I also hope that each race will have also unique equipment that only they will be able to produce and/or use. As for the attributes, I think that Avians will be rater faster and more agille, but also a bit more fragile that hummans (I think that humans will be typical race with “normal” attributes).
I do agree, humans tend to be the “all around” species in most games.
I kinda like the idea of species related crafting recepies and gear, it makes each one unique as well as adding something else to take into consideration when creating your character.
I also agree that Avians will be more of the speed or “strike first and fast” type of species not to mention frail. Birds have hollow bones which enable them to be agile.
Expanding on from that, what would be awesome is if some races developed technology to solve what is- for them- a trivial problem, but proved to be immensely useful to others, to encourage inter species interaction
in the spear tip i see a hardened feather … in my sight it fits ^^
Well… I must admit that I taken better look in a picture (it was 2 in the night when I posted my first comment) and now I can see feather in the tip of the spear… So sharpyy – I do agree that it fits. But still having a second possibility as a bird claw would not hurt :)
Yes it will. Bird claws are friecken sharp, so it will do damage :D
so gonna be an avain
They look awesome! I can’t wait untill this game comes out
The only downside is that there like religous ducks
all hail the almighty mother…DUCKA!!! motherducka! motherducka!!!
Whats went bad when you were born? must of been somthing terrble
SO WHERE IS THE WATER DEMONSTRATION, TIY
YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE A WATER DEMONSTRATION
Dude. Chill out.
This is an interesting race. How many different races do you want in the game?
I want to cry it’s so pretty :)
Dude this game keeps on looking better and better!
im throwing my money on the screen but nothing is happing :(
Do we play as the Avians or the Grounded? I’m not too keen on playing as a religious fanatic.
i have a magor question was tiy a sacrifice or wat i must kno
Hello, OmniGeoff here! I find this race to be my top pick if nothing of the Canine sort is added!
I thought of it first, you’ll see that my post is before his…..
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/murfolk-and-other-npc-creatures.6065/
1: There’s nothing in that post that equals the Avians. No, not even “airions: they liveing giants and they fly… they are hostile when flying a ship”.2: You made that post YESTERDAY. If you’re suggesting your ideas (which bear no resemblance) are in use here, then you’re also suggesting the team was able to come up with top-notch artwork, sprites, and lore in the last day. In which case, Kudos to the Dev team.3: :p
Please let there be contest!!I’ve been waiting since I first came across starbound!
I like the part where “A randomly generated, Avian temple.” isn’t a joke.
This is so epic, finally more races and what a better race to start with the AVIANS, God George did a good job pixelating them, Starbound just gets better and better every post :D
i like the character model and story, but the temple looks a tad weird. But weird is good! :)
So Scootaloos are the first to come out of starbound. Nice.
no they look more like parots than scootaloos (aka chickens)
All my yes.
Can you say at this point whether the races will be anything other than cosmetic? Personally I think it would be great if they all have their own unique ability/trait.
As Dako suggested, an aquatic race that requires a re-breather to be outside of water. Or a feline race with passively improved night vision.
FELINE RACE FTW
HOORAH CATMEN
ME WANT KAJIIT IN STARBOUND!
from elswyre
feline race with ( if they have them)werewolf trait 0o
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And the furries have arrived.
trust me, we been here all the time, it´s just this is the first time we really have a reason to be noticeable X3
and feline race gets my vote to, especially if there be options to look like a lynx ^^
Felines have been done! How about raccoons?
And if anyone thinks there’s a sudden burst of enthusiasm over possible furry content, just imagine what’d happen if there were ponies. (Though come to think of it, a centauroid race would be cool.)
Haters gonna hate, but I’d love it, if the game had playable ponies xD
OMG that is the Best idea in the history of the world! I vote for pony race
Nope. You get taurs.
Listen, I like ponies, but ponies do not need to be in everything.
Advantages and disadvantages might be that they cant use tools as well but have higher mobility.
Perhaps they could expand on the felines by adding in many of the large feline varieties (Lions, Leopards, etc.)
And, as I’ve posted on a thread beforehand, I wouldn’t mind playing as one of the wolven. Would have to be a political and social outcast, as wolves generally attack anything that’s not a wolf that they can sink their fangs into (their natural prey, domesticated creatures, even humans), and thus, if uplifted and given their own society, would be an unstable, xenophobic hierarchy.
Actually that is a common misconception about wolves. They rarely attack humans, and mostly only when rabid. Likewise, they do not tend to attack domesticated creatures if they have proper hunting ground.
i concur sapidus. wolves are not always outcasts, and rarely vicious. so, snow, chill wolves are neat, and would make neat races, but don’t have to be the emo bad guys of the universe.
werewolf is best !!!
maybe walking on 2 legs with the back tilted and running on 4
Why do people thnik of werewolves? thats taking it so they are evil
that would all just be in character creation you wouldnt need varieties it would be differnt hair/skin types for that race
hi my name is walter and i lv terraria but one thing it lacked that u can put in starbound is a rlly cool floating island/castal biome
You don’t know shit about wolves, do you.
Wolves are actually pretty shy animals. Usually they only start making trouble with people if they’ve interbred with domestic dogs and inherited the dog’s not-afraid-of-people genes. Or if they have rabies. Granted, that’s not always the case, and they will eat livestock if the livestock is close by and the wolves are hungry, but on the whole they’re not a species that itches for a fight.
And wolves will tolerate other species. Northern wolves tend to live quite peaceably with ravens, as the ravens will lead the wolves to prey, and then be allowed to eat from the carcass after the hunt.
They’re not as hierarchical as you probably think, either. The whole alpha/beta/omega model has long been discredited among respectable researchers. Most wolf packs are just a mom, a dad, and their kids, and the kids willingly defer to the parents without much fuss. Southern subspecies of wolves, such as the middle eastern types that our domestic dogs originated from, are especially lenient about pack hierarchy.
And I think that just one predator species, whether it was a big cat or a wolf, would be enough for this game. Don’t want it to be cluttered up with overly similar species.
Needs wolves, all i request, and it has a wolf story where you can become leader of packs and some other stuff, ether way, i would love somthing strange like in wolves of the beyond
Actually a quadruped race that couldn’t use certain tools in exchange for faster movement and maybe some other advantages, would make for some interesting play.
but imagine how funny it’d be if they nerfed the ponies so teribly,and all the bronies still played as this crappy race? i’d find it hilarious. but i guess centuar/pony things would at least be intereesting, maybe on a planet with huge, rolling plains.
liked your commet cuz of the intereesting, lol
i like clash’s idea 4 feline race like kajiit in elder scrolls :D
I agree, it would be very nice to see unique traits to each playable species, such as unique gear like the re-breather for an aquatic species or special passive evolutionary advantages and disadvantages like enhanced physical combat prowess for the Avians due to the extensive combat training mentioned in their lore but a reduction to their scientific capabilities since they were always a primitive race. Maybe an aquatic species could have evolved a lamp resembling an Angler fish giving them a constant source of light without the need for a flashlight but they can’t breathe outside of the water without the help of the re-breather.
Wah, the Re-Breather should work with water and other races, understand what i mean?
My question:
Why do the Avians strip what I assume are their feathers and decorate their shields with it?
Isn’t that like cutting your hair to make a sweater?
Could anybody provide some opinions for this?
Well I’m not sure those are their feathers but…
There are birds that pluck and use their own feathers as nest lining.
And if H. sapiens happened to have suitable hair for textiles, what is stopping us doing as you say?
It’s really only our culture and an aversion to anything that has come off a human body.
Maybe they don’t have an aversion to their cast off feathers. Alien culture remember.
Will they be able to use normal weapons (like the pulse rifle)?
I really hope you can. Otherwise I wanna be an Orc that can use a pulse rifle.
So much win.
Me Gusta indeed..
This is AWESOME! :D
WANT BE THIS NOW, i find them really interesting
There is going to be a Dragon/Lizard race correct???
Maybe a gecko species that can climb up walls?
Does that one bird to the left have breasts ? I know they are aliens, but Bird don’t usually have breasts like mammals, i think …
I think it’s just to help identify it as a female.
This game is going to be amazing.
I’m looking forward to seeing humans to be honest (hey they’re always well-rounded in games) but the idea of having, an aquatic race (as suggested by Dako below), the avian race, the human race (hey don’t lie i know you’ll make em), a race that merges it’s self with technology and something i wanna know personally: will races have racial benefits like in elder scrolls? (something unique with each race)
thought theyr better then humans but after biografy.. THEY KINDA REMINDS HUMANS :D
Eeeee! I love the history you’ve included. Being a fan of RP, I hope there’s opportunity to expand on this a bit in-game.
Awsome
great :D i wanted to be a bird, bird are my favorite
Nice
u kno birds dont have to have tits
Realy nice. (nice pots at right top :P)
+ imagine a self building civilisation doing war to an other, massive war between 2 races in front of you, can’t wait.
This looks really good, maybe if you die and you did really well you would go to Avian heaven first, get wings, and respawn with wings until you die, and the process starts again!
Tiy you are the best .Someone will be like Avian someone dinosaur this is freaking amazing .
Dunno you’re going to write down some background and different playable race.
Bravo!
need more video, more
When something’s epic, it’s epic.
Instant thought: Avians were once a suggestion for Terraria in the forums
I could even link it for you guys!
Holy balls…
Lol is that Tiy on the table there?
Cool! I won’t be playing as these though… The other Avians, are they npc’s, other players or enemies? Are you sleeping or taken as a prisoner? And if you are taken prisoner… How will that work? :D
they should have laser spears and force shields
Very nice. Good concept.
So really random thing to point out, but you are actually going through doors in the backround or sideways to get to these places, because there is nothing in the back of temple
just think terraria where all the doors are on the sides, as you can tell its a zoom in, and background is visible through windows, think 2D platforming not 3D backwall doors
Damn thats awesome, i really hope races have to be unlocked first by doing something in particular as a human in order to be able to choose that new race as a character
why should they be unlocked? If I feel it be fun to play X race right of the bat, why should I earn it?
Oh, and because I’m currently watching Doctor Who…
This game totally needs a Doctor Who reference somewhere. Cause I mean… come on… a whole universe populated with unique planets to explore? ^_^
Mysterious blue boxes flying past in the background layer once in a while, or something! :D
This. This right here. Is ingenious. :D
OMG o.O I was on a Docter Who Marathon earlier as well! XD A Dalek Shrine would be beast or armor that looks like the Cybermen! :3 So many things!!!
a sonic screwdriver tool or a pet dalek?
We need K9, Daleks are evil.
sorry but I would like ether Dalek would be useful in a fight but rubbish in tech help but K9 could help a lot more with tech and stun hostiles.
doesn’t work on wood. :/
Needs more floating sofas, hitchhiker’s guide all up in this.
and on a mechanical planet there would be a super computer npc and when you talked to it it might say “the meaning of life is 42″
YES! just yes. I am just watching doctor who also, and I think it would be awesome to have some sort of lock picking system going through a bunch of different combinations with hints, using a sonic screwdriver, and a blue police box flying through space would not be out of hand..
Yeah, or you could have an NPC called “The Doctor” and he wears the exact same clothes and the only things he sells are “Plasma Screwdrivers” (parody of the Sonic Screwdriver) and “Little Blue Box” Which could be some type of spaceship.
Oh and i forgot something – It also needs some doctor who meme references, such as the weeping angles “blink and you’re dead” thing etc. Maybe when you talk to “The Doctor” (mentioned above) he says doctor who memes etc? :D
YES YES YES THIS WOULD KICK ASS. Sorry for my swearing. Or possibly he would call the big boss of the planet The Master.
maybe later in game, and not as focal point. i mean, i’m a diehard whovian, but its better as an easter egg, not as a major thing, you get me?
What about a playable race of space rhinos as seen in a few doctor who episodes?
Those….
Would be the Judoon.
Sho blo cro no flo jo po dho!
…not sure what that means….
NO I WILL NOT SUCK ON YOU PINKY TOE
The space police might get a little over powered but it is a great idea.
There MAY be copyright concerns with that.
Awesome
Why is Tiy on the sacrifical table?
I hope some races will be allies! :D So i can be a random race, having a cup o’ tea with the avians! :P
Or you could be an Avian, as Tiy said: “playable race”
I’m not so sure if they’re freindly or not, Tiy is on some sort of stone table (a sacrafice table perhaps?), so they might be using him as a sacrifice, OR the Avians might have found Tiy passed out or something and are trying to figure out who he is or where he came from (assuming the Avians never seen a human before). I’d like to think that the second guess I made is true.
The skull in the pit looks kinda humane though..
the avians arnt holding a knife though
That’s true, perhaps they’re trying to heal or revive him?
but, they have spears out, so maybe (i see blood on the table) they allready killed him or gonna
We can also hope that Tiy was a volutier, and wanted to be sacraficed ;)
O_o;
Tea is over rated, more like have a cup of bio food
Amazing!
Also, what exactly are the doing to your character, Tiy?
Another awesome race would be like kind of like a fairy, who shun technology or a wolf race.
i noticed the door, or lack of it, and thought that maybe, to avoid being unable to jump over things (like the dungeon building in terraria), it will be like in some platform games where to get to the next level you have to press up on a door that is in the background. or, it could be like you can only see the outside when you’re not in this temple and then you go in the front and you’re in here. or it could just be darkened on the sides to not show anything. who knows.
Playable? Oh sweet, I know I’m doing that!
Make a playable race of wolf-men!
or a trait
Well, the trait would probably be in being that type of race.
f you look below, and here, I think that Wolf-Men would be great, but like down below, maybe With like fire or earth or my personal favorite, Ice, as their main weaponry types, and get boost from being that kind, as well as different apearences.
Wolf man sounds terrrbile name. and way to unrealisctl
also, there’s a pot shaped like a penguin! and a genie lamp! and the female and the male furthest to the right have the same upper armor on! and i like the chest design! and the 3 weird panels on the wall are confusing! and are those big blue feathers in that jar all the way to the left? and i love the middle bird’s helmet! and the cool symbol up top! and i like the spike design! and maybe that was a trap door leading to the spikes in the water! and cool windows! and spear! that is all.
This game it getting a ridiculous amount of content. I don’t care if this game takes another 2 years to come out, I just want you guys to make this as amazing as you can. And never give up on the Mac build, or I’ll cry forever.
Give a hand to the sprite artists, they are doing great work. Look at all the detail there, fantastic. Really good job sprite guys.
Is there going to be any background information as in how the Avians name each other?
This is awesome! I really like that they have stories. I can’t wait to get this game!
Great work! Very excited for this game, TAKE ALL MY MONEY
awesome
“Avians soldiers are trained from birth to be fierce warriors”
They use Spears and Shields
Sounds like we are going to have spartan birdies in this game :D
What’s Tiy doing on the table of sacrifice? Hahah.
Takin’ a nap. >.>
YES do want, i cant wait to see what other races and things you can come up with! keep up the good work.
I think you should make all of the races customizable. Like in the beginning before the tutorial you add a character
customization phase where the player can create his/her own character (and maybe pick some traits they want on this character).
I think that all of the playable races should be customizable. Like in the beginning before the tutorial you make it so that the player can customize what his/her own character wold look like (and maybe make it so they can pick some traits for their character to have).
Man, I didnt even realize there were gonna BE playable nonhuman races – nice touch! So geeked for this game! If I havent said it earlier, lemme say it here also that this is some of the most gorgeous pixel art I have ever seen! Keep up the good work – cant wait for Beta!
Very, VERY good job on the sprites. Looks like I’m going to need to get much better if I want to be anywhere near as good as whoever made the sprites (I’m assuming Tiy or George). Also is that Tiy lying on the altar?
will there be a gameplay video of this race
playable races? well here’s hoping you devs will take a look at one of my races and maybe think about including it into your game:
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/starbound-content-pack-race-world-character-npc.1015/#post-19853
wonder if there are going to be quadruped races aswell
I’d love a quadruped race myself. There could be interesting challenges to a species without hands. I know most people are clamoring for cats, wolves, or ponies, but I think there could be a good deal of potential with a species similar to pigs and wild boar. They’re known to be quite good at manipulating objects with their mouths.
Oh man, races. This is awesome. Is there some sort of stat system in place, and different races have unique stats? maybe have certain weapons and items be specific to a certain race, for example maybe you would have unique avian weapons or items that anybody could collect but only avians could equip.
Some ideas for races:
-Various human races with different unique stats, maybe higher physical stats than other.
-Elves, better with ranged combat or magic with unique weapons.
-Some sort of alien race, with access to better unique tech but with slightly worse physical stats.
-An aquatic (maybe amphibian or reptilian) race able to breathe underwater as well as on land.
-A stealthy catlike (or elven) race able to preform strong sneak attacks and avoid being seen by others.
-A plantlike race, like a dryad or nymph, with powerful magic and ranged combat and unique weapons.
-Maybe a robotic race (automaton) with unique tech and high defense, but with weaknesses to elements like water, flame, electricity, etc.The idea of weapons and tech unique to each race is huge to balancing. Hopefully there isnt one “supreme race” with superior skills to the others. I think race should have a slightly different playstyle so they dont all feel the same, but they shouldnt be radically different at the same time.
i have already come up with a race idea that crosses the aquatic and robotic races off of your list
CYBORG SHARKS
Man i hope this game has apre order D:
Oh my god, I can’t handle this. Not that I want the game out NOW or anything, just how awesome it’s going to be makes me all giddy.
I wander whats in that golden chest!
Seeing these update make me feel like a kid in a candy store
Hope Tiy could get permission to use sc2 ideas
Awesome idea!
I can’t wait till this game comes out!!!!!!!
Anyone see the genie lamp? I hope that does something. :D
this is so freaking cool, maybe there could be a rare area or device in the game to change your race mid game play? though, with some noticeable consequences to things like trading and distrust by the NPC’s?
=3 I am speechless. So much more amazing than I had previously hoped for… I now know that I will drop out of all responsibilities in my life to grow fat and old doing nothing but eating junk food and playing this game…Life complete.
Hopefully there’s some dragon-related race.
Seems like a nice alternative starter race, and a lot of people seem excited about it. I hope there will be some other, more aggressive/alternative looking races for those of us who aren’t too keen on playing pink space ducks.
It’s great idea
cuteee <3
(sorry if this comment is badly writed, i’m French. XD )
This race is great, but…
Ho, I think I found one of his famous outcasts, and it’s a superstar !
http://www.renders-graphiques.fr/image/upload/normal/4600_render_hidden04_copie.png
… No ? *Blaster Shot* *Die*
Seriously, With so many contents, this game will be… fabulous !
very good job indeed, But 1 thng to add:
The pace of work is very slow compared to the length of infinate development for this game: Just imagine making infinate number of worlds will take a very long time…
HAHAA! You have a furry artist doing the concept art for a game and this is what happens!
I love it!
YESSSSS
i would love to see more random generated avian temples. just to see how much it can change in generation
Are there going to be any non-bipedal humanoid sapient alien races, playable or otherwise?
No reason to fall into the “Star Trek Trap” and have ALL sapient life in the universe look exactly like humans with rubber foreheads.
heres another idea for a race “wolfling’s’ guardians of tresure cursed when they turned on there masters a great hatered fused the wolfs and the humen together causeing a wolfling a crature with great strength and endurance but not very good with such things as mana and on the full moon they become wherewolfs for a short amount of time and they are beter at diging then most cretures
awesome
Ummm, could you please announce tomorrow, that you’re finished with the game and will launch it Wednesday 0:00! pleaseeeeee!!!
There is a lot going on in that picture o_O. How much of this picture is intractable, and where exactly does it take place?
Very exciting stuff.
They are REALLY awesome!
This is amazing. I think we’ll see an Earth-bound race, a Water-bound race, and a Sky-bound race as three of the races. (One could even call the Sky-bound… Starbound.) Addition of new obstacles will most likely result in the races specializing in certain circumstances. Some that come to mind are Fire-bound, Ice-bound, Machine-Bound, etc.
And I believe this game would take an amazing turn in a different direction (Most likely a worse direction) if Fetalstars is not the artist.
You guys are making this game look so good you might turn me gay for you.
Hey…wait a minute. Is that other Avian woman there this guy’s wife? Don’t tell me you are going that deep into depth for this game. XD
Pretty beast.
cool!, so exciting
There is a golden crown in the pool. Hope I will be able to were it!
i would like a wolflike race for gothic people and the sort
Playable races too? Even more things to do, can’t wait for the beta/retail release.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! We’ve been waiting since Terraria stopped updating! This is like waiting for Diablo 3 all over again…
SO COOL
Sounds like a very cool race.
i hope its possible to wipe out a race in this game *grabs shotgun*
Gmae is looking great so far, but the jungles/wood things are so much Terraria for me.
i like the fact they are gonna do some sacrificing
omg, i wanna pay for this SO BAD
Waiting for reptilian Lizardfolk. Lizzans. That’s a dandy name for them.
Weird, I threw my money at the screen and nothing happened :-/
Tiyuri posted another pic of one of their temples on his twitter. Go check it out guys and gals!
Sweet
If we have feathered characters to play as, will we also be able to have scaled and furry characters to play as? Perhaps a werewolf and a two-legged dragon or something similar?
shut up and take my money already
The Avians seem to be heavily inspired by the Amarantin from Alistair Reynolds’ “Revelation Space” series.
…Which is awesome, because I love that series, and those were some damn cool alien birds.
Unless it’s just a huge co-incidence. Which is possible, but unlikely.
In any event, I look forward to seeing these guys.
…I really hope I am right, and this isn’t just me reading waaaay too much into things, and associating this with a somewhat obscure Sci-fi title.
Aquatic Race with underwater-world and civilization !
also furrys, purr purr.
Avians are awesome, too !
i want a penguin race
WHO WOULDN’T?!?!?!?
Now, I do hope that there will be armored bodysuits/power armours as well as ability to attack neutral/friendly NPCs. It’s what I need to realize my xeno-purging Imperial Space Marine plans for this game.
While I love this species (not race, since race refers to variance within a species, a common error), I don’t like their name. They really need to have a unique name instead of a descriptor. “Avian” means bird, so basically we would be calling them after a non-advanced intelligent creature from Earth — seems a little demeaning to say the least. It would be like if they called Humans “Blajok” which meant a type of disgusting fat grub that slightly resembled Humans.
Additionally, giving them a unique name would give more personality to the race. They would have more flavor and character. My suggestion would be “Kluexians” since they are so heavily devoted to their God “Kluex.” Although some variation on the word “Avian” that did not actually have a synonym would suffice.
Just imagine if the Krogan race from Mass Effect was called “Lizard Rhinos” … they would definitely lose a lot of their flavor and uniqueness.
Hmm… so better names add to their tastyness?
I dont think Kluexians would be too good of a name because it says that many of them have strayed from their beliefs and are now known as The Grounded. But there are Kluexian Avians and Grounded Avians instead. And i’m guessing the Avian we get to play will be one of The Grounded but i get the feeling that all Avains are known as The Grounded because none of them have proper wings.
Actually it says that the grounded are rare. Rare enough that they could probably blend in with the regulars with little trouble and effort.
i think your right about the names but kluexians is to long maby just kluians it keeps the point and shortens it up that and its just alot eseyer to say lol
How about just “The Kluexi” ?
This name just makes me think of the Ku Klux Klan to be quite honest…LOL
Avian has a nice ring to it, dont look to deep into things man. They needed a simple easy to remember name that fits aswell. I love the name :3
How is it looking too deep into something? The word “Avian” is literally “Bird”. Ever heard of avian influenza? It is more commonly known as the -bird flu-.
Stexe has a good point. Yes, Avian sounds nice and rolls off the tongue easily, but so does the word flower. Or pompadour. The race definitely needs a better name.
We are not comparing them to birds, they have adance teck, (dont know where iw as going here, but i say the name should stay
I think it’s fine – it’s not offensive and it serves it’s purpose well.
I don’t know about Kluexians really… Try pronouncing Avians first, the try to pronounce Kluexians. Which one was easier? To me Avians still sounds pretty exotic, while still letting you understand that it is some form of bird-like species.
no keep Avian… its already been set
It hasn’t already been set. That’s the point of having an alpha, beta, and updates to a game — everything is possible to be changed. Calling them “Avians” is like calling a race of Frog aliens “Reptilians.”
I can understand the want to have something that flows easily, so why not just mix up their name slightly? Avarians or something. Just anything to make it NOT a real word.
“Avaria” in some languages means ‘Breakdown’, so ‘Avarians’ would be a bad name. ;)
Frogs aren’t even reptilian though…
Perhaps even “The Aviens” would work in this case…
if it means bird, that means, they are faster, and they make wings. there should be a item to make them into a bird
Sounds awesome! More and more looking forward to playing Starbound :)
This announcement makes me happy for a few reasons…
1. Multiple playable races being truly confirmed
2. Bird mans race :D
3. Spears are in game! I hope they have functionality that makes them a viable alternative to all of the giant swords people are going to want to lug around. You know, superior reach, being able to block and thrust at the same time, etc.
4. Primitive looking weapons that are actually powerful tech always appealed to me.
I suggest that they should create a Werewolf race! Or maybe a Lion race?
Awesome there should be a lizard race as well�APr
I would have thought that the generals making replacement wings for themselves would go against the will of their god, it having removed their wings for a purpose. This idea reminds me of the Amarantin/Shrouder species in the Revelation Space universe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_in_Revelation_Space#Shrouders it doesn’t explain much on that but basically the Banished created their own wings to replace the ones which they had lost, and as a result the religious leaders of their planet expelled them into space.
Also just a query, by first playable species, does this mean superceding humans?
I was betting my acquaintance the other day that soon after avians suggestions of canine/feline based species will follow and lo and behold, there you go. Some furries are quire vigilant.
I think it would be fun to have a Panda Race
go back to WoW
start the game allredy
start the game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it loks lick you cud loot it and get a lot of $$$$$ that wud be nice
I just nerded out all over the keyboard. It’s all sticky.
what? playable races not just humans? this new to me……..and very awesome!!
OOOOOH MMMMYYYYY GOOOOODNESSSS!!!!!
AAAAGH that looks epic!
Playable Birds, Lizards, Sharks. That’s all you ever need. Mammals already got humanity as their representative.
Very nice background and very awesome idea but you should make one of them that has somehow returned from the after life, say if you have found their homeworld (specific area that it can spawn in such as from one coordinate and say it can spawn at most fifteen digits in each direction) and this super avian will have wings and will be very powerful… can only spawn if you did not choose avian as your staritng race.
I would love to see a underwater race that eventually came onto land!
Crab People, Crab People, look like crab, walk like people.
…and there’s that, but yes “Crab People” would be neat for an aqua race cause they would have a weapon on their hand (of course) and would be defensive as all get out. Any kind of aqua race would be great. Nice South Park pun btw.
If this game is going to be all “furry -nated” than its a fail. You’re creating a multiple worlds only to populate it with everything we’ve already seen?! Cannine, feline, orcs, elves – what are you talking about ppl! It’s soooooooo boring. Take an example of mass effect, even with all the story included it would be a disaster if there were cat people and dragonmen instead of salarians and krogan. Not to mention hanar and elcor.
I also agree with Stexe God about their name – its way too obvious and boooring again.
I’m sorry if I sound too rough, I’ve been waiting for this game a lot as well! But if its going to be all furry like – it will be a turn off for me, cause my opinion: authors use furries when they run out of imagination…
cool
This is SO awesome!!!
It’s like a mix between the Goa’Uld in some aspects of the artstyle, ancient Egypt and ancient Maya, and some hints in the avian character design from the Morrigi from Sword of The Stars. LOVE IT!!
Very surprised too. I expected something dull and normal like “oh these are a race of humans that live on grasslands and build houses with red brick roofs.” But avians? Wow. What next?
Are these guys…Chozo-inspired, maybe?
This looks awesome, I’m really looking forward to the rest of the races.
that isnt vary big but looks to have a lot of $$$$$
altho thay look kindof cool
kros bose and javilens
what kind of weapons would they have, i know it says primitive looking but with advance technology, would they have rocket spears or heat seeking boomerangs?
A ROUND OF APPLAUSE!!!!! THIS IS GREAT!! WELL DONE EVERYONE!!!! THANK YOU!!
Are they using Tiy as a human sacrafice?
I like the generated temple :) the multiple add-ons look great… Honestly it does… I do have a request for the game… the dart guns in terraria were great…. I want to protect my home with more kick-ass defenses and things of the sort… I hope Spacebound really expands on the wiring, switches, pressure plates, etc and makes a timer pressure plate or switch that cuts back off after 1, 2, 3 seconds whatever and music boxes that flash to the background music and well awesome stuff :) Request WIRING IS WAY AWESOME!!!
I wonder if they are going to do one of those ‘Beings of Pure Energy’ things. Love to play as some ball lightning
Wait, from that picture it looks like you can go inside, in an instance outside of the regular map. Is that true?
Hey why not caracters that do better in certain bioms like a heath boost or energy boost or something like that
Love the new race ;)
This game will be awesome :)
Sky race wold be good to if you agree???
Hey. Not a bad idea :D. How many races will be:3?
Such a small proposition:http://e621.net/data/39/08/3908c5c8da83ad2dc02a2ccb5f5d2126.jpg?1195892189
http://e621.net/data/a3/a7/a3a7a08c6af8a7d05ffe616859ba6f84.jpg?1236563234
Maybe a Space Fox?? ;o
0◡0 Oh god yes. I have wanted this in terraria FOREVER.
:O wow! I really like this. I wonder what other races there will be…. :D
IM A FIRIN’ MY LAZER! ok now That I have your attention, I want to say……………… I like this game! :D
This game keeps looking better and better. Can’t Wait!
There should totally be a facehugger-like parasite thing. And maybe, when you get attacked by it, you have a certain amount of time to get it out of you before you EXPLODE
Maybe there could be living planets? Like a hive mind sort of thing? Maybe if you chop down a tree or kill something, then everything could attack you.
Oh, this is unexpected and freaking awesome.
damn give us a release date, its the only game that actually wait for
If there’s going to be a reptilian race, I hope that they won’t be stereotypical aggressive warrior-race.
It’s such a tired old cliche…been done to death.
very inspired of aztec indians, am i right?
I think it would be cool if they added a quest for the race (if you are playing as one) to get their Gods to give you your wings back and be able to fly, like the demon and angle wings in Terraria.
The first playable race you say? Is that to say humans aren’t playable? What a twist!
There should be an under water planet thats where u start off as the fish race.Sorta like npetune or something
In the top right of the temple pic. the pots have FACES!!! lol
If anything,It would be impressive to see races based off of human and animal mixture kinda.Such the Avians,they are like a bird/human mixture.Im not saying things like Minators,or Centars,I mean things like mixture of different races of species. But it would also be fun to have sepereate ones.
And would be even better is each start out with thier own seperate type of weaponry and gear.Ones that would match thier individuality of other races.
I have an idea maybe,about races when they spawn,they have their own gear and weapons to use,but they can use weapons from other races of course.Just some starting gear that matches their race.
And also, maybe if possibal,just like in Terraria, a wide spread of different bosses.
So Yea…. Slime race? gooey body and stuff
sortof flamable and to easy to detroy, hit a inportin orgen inside with a spear or somthing and they are dead
Very badass—they sacrifice humans??!??!? How do they farm?
They should be good pathfinders thanks to unique organs in their brains.
And their martial kicks should be quite painful (think Ostrich).
So do they make Tomb Raider-esque hidden temples guarded by tigers, giant boulder and spike traps, psionic demons, etc….?
good idea!
what about a race of reptilians?they could live in places like swamps,in deserts or big tropical forests!
they could have rare especimen like one with wings that could fly for short time or just plane.they could also have a longer breath underwhater than other races or a capability of regenerate life!it’s up to you to choose their abilities :)
i would like to see an alien race or some sort of evolving creature so you could put parts on it depends on what parts you put on it you will see what race you become?
will their templs be in the sky
probably not because it says they can’t fly
did any1 else notice that Tiy is on the avian’s table
Well, it’s not like it mentioned so many times throughout the comments.
How about a race similar to the Predators? Able to climb walls, see in the dark, and turn invisible? Of course they would need some downside… I’d say they can only gain half the defense gained from the armor they’re wearing and they have 75% health compared to other classes?
Love it :D
Nice idea guys about the underwater humanoid race.Having this in that game would be cool in a way to see the game from an different angle and aspect.
wouldn’t this be the second playable race? sense we have seen you has humans in pictures and videos so humans would be the firsPr
When will you release a new video man? i can’t wait i just can’t XD
how about that changes based on environment and actions ex. mining attacking
make a plant like humaniod race that can use there body parts as a weapon like the hand turns into a sword or arm turns into a crossbow, and a cyborgs of all races except planys
I’ve always been a sucker for bird-like races, but something that I’m interested in is, how “ancient” (they at least SOUND like they have been in the universe for a long time) are they compared to other races such as humans or other future people.
Very interesting. I am very into the cultures and history of the Avian people. “The Grounded” seems like what I would be like =p. So, I would like to give my thanks for the information on this fine work in progress and for you all to have a nice day and good luck with the programming.
I like It!
Maybe they will end this game one day or post something instead…two weeks without news
You can’t rush quality gaming though
it look nice but needs to be biger but uther than that good job
it wold be grat if evry planet is going to have a difrent graviti
sorry for bad english
Oh man i hope i’m not the only one coming back to this site almost thrice everyday looking for an update :P
i am to
I understand the name “Avian,” it kind of makes it sound Aerial, because they are birds, after all, but Kleux? Kinda lame name. It seems like an over-used, common, made up name for some sort of nonsensical thing. But I am just criticizing. Just saying what I feel like, as an over-criticizing person.
I would really like to see squirrel / E-wock style people that could be a woodland race please or at least a squirrel costume :D
I like the fact that you cannot see outside when you are inside.
I’m assuming humans will be a playable race? Or something similar from what I’ve seen of screenshots… An aquatic race would be cool, and even if this would not be possible, some way of building underwater might be interesting. I was thinking tridents would make a good weapon.
took me until now to realize that the mostly red vase alllllll the way to the right is supposed to look like the thing that said ‘Gimme all your pixels!’ to those two people in that one screenshot…
looks like tare needs to be a lizzard (im thinking skyrim on that idea) like race to, posibly a woodland race. Also human indefinetly.P.S. i dont see a playable race post for human
Nooo more skyrim, people might not like skyrim, (i like it but tbh, let creativeiy work here) unda stand meh?
they should let you play as the enemies as a side campaign
I can’t wait for Starbound to come out.
not 2 be mean but can we plz hav a release date.like if u agree.
lol, calm down buddy. this isn’t some development studio on a publishers short leash. what if they had all these great ideas and decided to cut them out because they gave boss Besappy1107 a due date. itll come when its time.
its in alpha….it has no relese date
this looks awsome cant wait for the game
Hey will people that brought Terraria get this game for free or like a discount because I cant wait for it to come out?
Exactly same money as the other. No discounts. This is a different game.
Oh. Oh yes. Me Like. Now all we need are Humans and Grays. (Grays = Those really tall, skinny, stereotypical aliens with the big heads)
We definitivly need aliens with Krogan style, i mean big reptilian with battle honor, tough, and clan. By the way; they could live in really hot biomes like lava shrine (because of their cold-blood). like f you’re agree
an idea for aquatic race should be nice… the way they look like should be kinda random… fishes… crabs… octopus :3 … but how about a subterrean mole race blind to the sun ? they could need sunglasses to see on open land… they should have racial passive of dark vision… capables to see without light ^^
if you have time can you please do some gameplay of the new race. PLZ!!!!!!
i have an idea for the aquatic race ANTHROPOMORPHIC CYBORG SHARKS it would be awesome WHO AGREES WITH ME
The best part is that they’ve implemented stuff we don’t know, like the ability to lie down… Hey, Tiy, I know ur there!
so is the Tiy character really just an avian disguised as a human? :P
can you tell me with which program you programm that beautiful game?
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so psyched for this game. already in love with the Avians! can’t wait to play! :D
also, I can’t wait to see what else you guys come up with. *wantwantwantwantwant*
It is most likely that they will add a race based on the magma, or lava of the game. They can swim in lava, have more free space to go to in possible volcanoes- or in the planet’s core. They can also shoot out lava from possibly their fingertips and such xD
But water, snow and cold areas in general hurt them?
they can heat up the area, by shooting fire out of fingers and sutrff
um pls say we can play as a human… and shouldn’t it be called a species not a race because human is species and caucasian and african are races… so yeah…
I want an update too but, I have to say that the Avians seem to be a pretty cool first race in the game. again; this game is gonna be GREAT!!! (btw the artwork on the Avians is great also… cya in May!)
srry im just a little anxious.
srry im just a little anxious.
Looks awesome! Cant wait to see more playable races! :D
Instead of doing fish-people, how about we do Mer-folk like in Terraria. However, this will defer from Terraria by giving the folk customizable fish features and gender. Like if you agree.
Funny, when I played Spore, about 3 or 4 years ago, I created a species called the Avians, with a lot of other subspecies. I’m really looking forward to seeing these guys in game, I’m really fond of them :)
Is it true that in Starbound there will be no race diffrences? That all races will be the same, only looking diffrent? If it is true that means that we will never ever get an aquatic playeble race :(
As I was reading that background story, I was hoping there would be outcasts among their religion. And as I got to the last paragraph there were. I always really like the idea that although a tribe is highly religious, some of the people from the race always apppear sceptic against their own religion. It’s a great opportunity for story development of the character in question and also the feud between the avians and the grounded.
one MAJOR thing your all forgetting is this game has a story and you start on the space station no matter what race you are so this idea of an aquatic race wouldnt work because you wouldnt spawn in an underwater city and you wouldnt be able to brethe air
wowwwww nice :DDDDDDDD i love this game xDD
this unique game i cant wait to enter the beta! to me and as it suggests on steam this is a futuristic terraria. is the terraria owner part of this operation? All i know is its like terraria maybe even is.
The Terraria team and owner are currently making this game. Yes, it will be a futuristic Terraria if you were wondering,
No, the Terraria Team isn’t making this. Tiy, the main developer of this
game was only a PART of the Terraria Team. He was the pixel artist of
Terraria, as far as I know. When Red, the owner of Terraria, decided
that he could not work on Terraria anymore, Tiy gathered a group of
people and started making this game.
I’d like to see a sort of Lizard species, perhaps like the Argonians in the Elder Scrolls series.
is that tiy on the alter?!
If we play as Avians, will we have the choice to be one of ”The Grounded” or a religious one, or will we have to be religious?
Forced to be religious? Sounds abit, Non allowalbe
It would be epic to see some kind of Man-sized Insect or Bug race. maybe they could climb most surfaces?
IS THAT A HUMAN SACRIFICE ON THE TABLE?
You know what this game needs? More sand!
I would think a race of people who have lost their wings would never have a structure with a ceiling or even at low altitudes. Would be cool to see these guys living way up in trees and on mountains.
Dr.Zoidberg!
Omg this game lookes so awsome! I loved Terraria, but this game looks like its more fun to play, and the race is absolutly nice – no basic lame race like humans or sumthing…
I’m going to play as a green avian, unless there’s another cooler race… Can’t wait.
Haha
How about a cyborg-otterish bipedal race that lives underwater has a half-robot face with a built in rebreather and, best of all, PENGUIN PETS! :)
id like if it were a bit like skyrim
in order of desire
1.aquatic race(with re-breather)
2. cat people
3. quadro ped pony race
*nods* Huh, terraria in space I guess.
Can we use the jetpacks if we want to be The avian race?
Also wut are you doing on that table? Sleeping?
I think it would be more realistic to have this race either be on a neutral-friendly side, unless you deface their temples. (Like trying to deconstruct the temple for room, but then you’ll get bad reputation with them.)
Sounds legit
the avians totally remind me of the Rito from windwaker. i like it.
they should run with those similarities, i mean, i always wanted to play windwaker as different races. good job people.
I have a idea!
make that if you kill an avian with these jetpacks, you can get them!
Also, make more monsters.
Btw, i really want to play the game!
the avains are a very interesting and creative race i hope to see more on them and other great creative races like these. I would hope to see races that are aquatic, underground civilization races, ones that really focus on nature, ones that are stranded in space, ones that are focused on controlling other races, and a race that lives in like an underworld of some kind
I think this is the race I’d play first… looks awesome and most importantly NEW/UNIQUE
nice job! cant vait for what comes next :)
What do you mean by “playable” ?
”playable” is a common tag placed on a race, faction, group, or character.
“playable” means you as the player can directly control 1 or more of them.
this game looks totally awesome so far. and i know it will get better. looks soooooooo good. hopefully santa knows what i want for christmas :P
Not knowing the law does not exclude you from it. Don’t be that guy right there.
Personally I’d like to see a wolven race, or like something werewolfish maybe.
i agree with the idea of an aquatic race and being able to have the rebreather inplanted into a helm, but then you would need planets that are completely covered in water. i also think that you should need to have water changes for this re-breather, because at one point the water would be un oxinated from being fed through the gills too much. nabe some sort of water cells that are easy to carry with you and cheap to make?
or just have some bottles of water
rite now if the game was out i would be playing as a Avian but i cant say for sure untill its finished
DAT TEMPLE.
interesting and will be playing for avians?
Im interested in a wolf race maybe it could run fast on land but doesn’t swim as fast in water?.This sounds very basic but Im obsessed with wolves so I am probably the only one who hopes this gets accepted
Your not alone, i love wolves
this post alone has sold me. you put a number on the box/download page, and i will pay it :D
They Remind me of the bird people in Legend of Zelda windwaker
you should make a golem/stoneman thingy race (playable) slow but got the strenght
I doubt anyone knows this but having “norns” in the world would be fantastic it’s from creaturelab now being developed by fishing cactus “Creature 4″ – if they had a Race like the grendels or ettins that would be awesome.
They probably want to develop original species instead of taking another person’s ideas.
there should be (in my personal opinon) a sort of parisite creature that can surviave for limited times with out a host and can over time mutate there host the parisite should start small and week but should eventualy get strong enough to take over its host. thus giving a new area (inside the host) and allowing for the most cusimization. (mutaition) could start of like some sort of worm or slime or bactira maybe a virus or somthing. could add little bit of reverse horror elements. could also make zombies and/or somthing like a necromorph?
Germ Races? lol
I think an aquatic race that look like cyborgs but just aquatic aliens in armor that they can use above water if they dont want a rebreather to take up accesory slots.They have knights that ride alien seahorses and weild tridents. They haveranger foot-soldiers weilding guns with low rates of fire that fire small harpoons that do high damage with no ropes so they consume ammo. They have hunters with hunter versions of the harpoon guns that have smaller mini harpoons and ropes to pull in prey. They hunt fish and harvest alien coral to eat. They have bustleing citys and a highly advanced culture.
* have ranger
They should be called Aquacidions (AQUA-sid-ee-uns) and be a freindly race that accept outsiders and even give them breathing helmets if they come to the border… unless their Avians in wich they have a deep hatred to.
I like the idea of having other playable races, the avians is a brilliant start to this. I noticed the ideas for other races such as underwater races and such, brilliant. next a race of wolf or fox creatures? Dunno. just sending my input.
how do i download???????
take my money now!!!!
Hey, are these inspired by the Rama series of books? Just judging by the choice of the name.
If the other races don’t really fancy me, I might make a Grounded Avian. :)
I would love it if all of the races were extremely different in much more than just cosmetics. Like recommended below: underwater species which have a breath meter out of water, and above water breathing devices like inverse rebreathers. Then you could build structures above ground and pipe water to it to fill it with “breathable” water.
Then a race of subterranean people who can see in no/low light, but are blinded by bright light sources if they dont have “sun glasses”. You would start deep underground, and your ship would have little to no light sources in it.
The thing that would be really cool with having extremely different races because you would have to then account for their needs as you try and move them into a base or a station. The requirements for each race would be entirely different. Like for a aquatic race you would need to ensure that the room is full of water (like say 70% and at least 4 tiles deep).
Anyone got any other ideas for interesting races which could be done without adding new environments or dynamics? Without knowledge of what they already have planned I am trying to keep my ideas to what I know they already have or have planned.
monkey people
But wait, wolves (refuring from wolves of the beyond again) can see in deep darkness, and dont get blinded by sunlight, so eather way. they eyes should instantly ajust to light
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An underground living race would be good.
Am I the only person who thinks, that if there absolutely HAD to be a canine race, it would be more interesting to base it off of domestic dogs than wolves? I could see a Border-Collie race as rather regimented and militaristic, with each individual trying to keep everyone else “in line.” Or a nomadic people taking advantage of other species’ infrastructure, like the stray dogs in Moscow that regularly commute through their territory via subways.
aether reminds me of minecraft… and it also reminds me that aether is now 1.2.5 <3
I don’t know about aquatic races but I would really like to see some kind of dragon humanoids.
What bout Werewolves (or something like humans that can transform into wolves) I just like wolves
Thats just awesome , lets hope for even better races
I dont know how possible it would be, but i would absolutely love to see an aquatic race. However, i dont want to play as a giant fishheaded abomination, but somthing more realistic (as far as my sense of realism goes i guess). My idea would be to have kind of an mer-people kind of design, just somthing thats really easy on the eyes to look at, because when i think of water, i think of elegance, beauty, and grace. It would be awesome to see a race that reflects and personifys those traits, well in my opinion at least!
I would play as a rebel avian, a grounded, and use laser pistols(pew pew pew)
to end the constant talk about sea otters and sharks, here is a good race! http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/glunaught.7164/
can u make an underground race? like a rock human?
For the aquatic race it could start out by having something simple as a re-breather backwards but later on you could get a high tech suit that has water in it while it absorbs air and puts it in the water in your suit allowing you to walk on land for either a long or endless ammount of time. Also you could do something similar to the suit that allows you to absorb air from the water for those who cannot breath underwater.
For new race ideas i suggest a reptilian race and possibly a robotic race (AI)
and also maybe a tribal race of people that are swifter and more agile than normal humans but weaker in strength
Personally i would love a race that is skilled in summoning or ‘dark arts’
eek! and how could i forget elves!
i’m confused about this whole “race” thing. Are these certain characters that you may start out as? do you get to choose a race?
Great concept
hey u should do that as a race suggestion on the forums
The answer to the aquatic race bullshit is clearly a Sharkphin.
I tried creating this BIRD! But I know How bad my drawing is so I did not present it plus the bird I created was for the DESERT PLANET I think… was it?
Show me thus bird, please
They remind me of those things holding onto the powerup orbs thingys from Metroid. If you turned them to stone and changed their pose.
Am I the only one noticing they’re sacraficing humans? That cannot make the humans too happy of their existance. A war in brewing?
Humans win hands down in a war. Humans got inter galactic UAVs… didnt you watch Stargate?
It would be cool if this race acctualy had wings and could fly. It would be cool if each race had a ability, like this race flying, aquatic race breathing underwater, humans somthing i duuno!
humans, they should be smart, and be able to tell what things and stuff is or do or how it could help them
I would really like to see a “Matrioshka brain” or “Jupiter brain” world added to the world generator… it could even come with its own machine race… if anyone is curious about what a Matrioshka brain is look up Robert Bradbury on Wikipedia… a machine race could be added as a possible galactic enemy or some other story plot aspect… would add a level of seriousness if such an enemy was in the game.
I’m beginning to wonder what other playable races will there be or are there going to be promo characters such Skyrim: Dovakin or watever his name is.
What about a reptilian race?
So, has anyone suggested a reptilian race yet? Severe disadvantages in cold environments, make the starting planets for them single-biome jungle death worlds, and other stuff like that.
…. Man people? wtf? whered that come from
How can I play?
when you meet the avians… you have two choices
1. give them gifts and ally them…
2. loot their stuff and make them mad at you.(they will try to kill you)
In most of the games I’ve played, underwater content is usually this crazy little hermit that mumbles to itself about fish and oxygen. With an aquatic race and civilizations, there will surely be much combat and exploration to be had!
I’m kind of disappointed that the bird race can’t fly. I hope there’s a fox race in the future that I can play as instead.
I think a race kinda like a bear-man thing would be cool. You could be a bit taller and stronger or something like that.
Well. I’m an Avian.
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