Support Starbound Development with Wanderlust: Rebirth
July 19, 2012 in Featured, Media, News
Hi there guys and girls,
For a while now we’ve been receiving emails, tweets, forum messages etc from people asking us how they can support Starbound. A lot of people have been asking for a paypal address or some other means of donating.
I’ve always said that I wouldn’t like to take monetary donations towards the release of a commercial product. Frankly, I think if you’re going to send us your money you deserve to get something in return.
So, another dev team who happen to be Starbound fans have offered to put their game forwards as a means of supporting the development of Starbound. Finally, I can announce that the developers are Yeti Trunk, with their wonderful game Wanderlust: Rebirth.
Wanderlust: Rebirth is an awesome retro RPG with full online cooperative play.
With Story and Survival modes, over 65 awards to earn, 4 character classes, crafting system, devilish AI, alternative endings, 44 enemies, 15 bosses and over 5 years of development, Wanderlust has a ton to do and is still actively worked on to this day.
Wanderlust: Rebirth will be Chucklefish’s first published game on Steam.
Much like an indie bundle, if you were to buy the game a % of the profits would go to Yeti Trunk and a % of profits would go to us, and in turn directly support the development of Starbound.
Wanderlust: Rebirth is available to buy right now at http://www.wanderlustgame.com/ for its usual price of $10 and the Steam version will be launching on July 27th, and is expected to be on sale at an introductory price of $7.50. There’s also a 4 pack option available on wanderlustgame.com and it’s likely we’ll make one available on Steam too.
The Steam version of the game is fully compatible online with the non-Steam version, so don’t be afraid to pick up the version that’s best for you.
Thank you for all your support so far guys, Starbound is coming along in leaps and bounds and this will help us a huge amount.
I hope to see you in game on Wanderlust: Rebirth, I play an Alchemist… which is a bit like a ninja that tosses potions at people.
Also, here’s another randomly generated Starbound monster for you:
We’re close to 1,000,000 combinations now, not including unique colouring.
1000,000? Does that mean 1 million or 1 hundred thousand?
oops it means 1 million
Is there ever going to be july wallpaper?
one hundred billion! XP
This game looks quite interesting, i just might give it a look and check it out
im hoping the combat is not turn based though :x
also that monsters looks pretty cool, strange arms though
and im assuming the 1000,000 is a typo and is meant to be 1,000,000? if so that is a whole lot of combinations @_@
1 mil! Sorry :)
If you are talking about wanderlust, then no, combat is real time.
alright that makes me feel alot better about playing it then
and no worries tiy, we all make typos
That’s pretty neat!
This is awesome!
<3
Very nice! It’d be fun to see some sort of Open Beta in the near future, I’m young and I’m free of school in the summer, I know a lot of others who are on this website are too, so it would be nice to get to play it during the summer. I’ll definately buy this game, to further support developement of Starbound, so we could possibly play it in the summer. If not, I’ve got tonnes of fun to look forward too in Wanderlust: Rebirth =P
Hey now! there are some *Not so young* people that are interested in this game too. I’ll diffidently have to buy a 4 pack!
Wow, even I’m impressed, and I am always complaining that games don’t have enough content, 1 mil o.O
Cool! I’ll have to check this out!
Haha. I was just about to comment on the “1000,000″ typo.
I was like “A thousand thousand? Isn’t that a million?”
xD
Very excited to be teaming up with Chucklefish and Valve/Steam!
We love what we’ve seen from Starbound and are very anxious to play it when it’s released!
Hopefully this partnership will give us early access to Starbound! =P
I hope so too. you guys deserve it.
going to buy wanderlust :rebirth tonight. : D
This game looks awesome! I’ll glady buy it but i wanted to have this on my Steam account, will this help the Chucklefish devs just the same?
oh i get it now, disregard my post.
Must get Wanderlust for me, my friends, my extended family, and everone I have ever known!
4 pack all the way!
if you getting 4 pack maby give me one yes?
We’re always making little touch-ups and improvements to our game, and we have more things planned post-re-launch. If you visit our website we just put up our new trailer which will address many of your questions!
We have spent 5 years working on this game; we have poured our heart and souls into it and we believe you will feel the love when you play the game! Hope to see you guys online and we appreciate all the love and support we’ve received so far!
I can’t tell you how anxious I am to play this game. I can hardly stand the wait until December, but by then I just know you guys will have made something special into a perfection of the Terrarian concept. Keep on developing guys, this game means a lot to me.
can’t wait and that cheap for what seems like a good old pixelated goodness
The Wanderlust devs are bros, they sent me a free copy of their game a while ago for commenting on their IndieDB page.
Same here, so I picked up a second copy the moment it was available on Desura. It was refreshing, and they’ve earned my loyalty. I’ll fully intend to pick up a 4-pack on Steam.
glad to see this released on steam. i hope chucklefish keeps up the great work!
LOL the face is priceless its a wtf face or what have i just seen face or a mother of god face meny dif faces in that face of the mosters i want a plushie of it :3
I really hope I get a response from TIY on this question.. ok, you’ve said you have close to 10,000 something various of the basic rocket launcher. the only weapons ive seen total in at around 10 or so. my question is how many different weapons are there? not variations, but actual weapons. I’m sure everyone here would like to know as well. because if the game is only like.. 20 weapons total with lots of variation, it seems like it would get really old after a while. please answer.
The guns behave differently and have different stats, it’s not just a visual thing :)
well what i meant was are the amount of unique guns limited because of the massive variations or are there going to be a large selection of guns that go into the generation coding? you dont have to say an exact number, I’m just curious about how many gun/sword/weapon types are used before the randomly generated factor is applied to them.
So it’s more like “Starbounderlands”? :D
Awesome. Never heard of this game. But if money goes to you guys then I’ll probably pick up a four pack when it hits steam. Thanks for keeping us informed.
I’ll probably be picking up a 4-pack friday after I get paid. I have a few friends I’d like to play with, and they’ll probably drag their feet getting this game unless I gift it to them :P
Game looks quite nice. A pity it’s made with Game Maker :( {no Linux/Mac ports}
Actually, Game Maker games can be ported to the Mac using GM4Mac or Game Maker Studio, two more recent variations of Game Maker.
Game looks quite nice. A pity it’s made with Game Maker :( {no Linuxport}
game looks epic, yeti trunk, might tide me over for a bit till starbound come out :P
I really like the random monsters; I didn’t know this was happening until now!
1,000,000 combinations *o*
Monsters will invade planets!
Awesome news! I’ll buy Wanderlust to support both the wonderful Chucklefish and Wanderlust teams as well as for my own selfish interest to own an awesome game. ;)
Also, if I may add a comment to Chucklefish… GOD I LOVE THIS GENERATED MONSTER!
This game is fantastic. Had a good few nights with friends running through it. The priest is one of the most fun healing I’ve ever done!
bought!!!!!
i hope to see soon in spanish the starbound too xD
Im going to go buy this! Supports Starbound and looks like tons of fun!
O.o, looks intresting but whats with the survival mode?
“The Crawl” is like a ‘Horde Mode’ (like Gears of War or Mass Effect) but endless, with great challenges and rewards for your character. It’s super frantic, super fun, and super challenging. =D
Crawl is a faster, but tougher, way to earn money and items as well. You have to beat the Eighth level to unlock it, but it is much worth the rewards.
aww, I love randomly generated monsters :D Also, I’m going to have to check out wonderlust now…
Wow, i love those monsters…
I hope they can have weapons too
I am going to buy that game for sure :)
Looks a lot of fun.
Sweet. I’ll pick up a copy once it hits Steam :)
Me too! I would buy it now but I love having my games on steam so that steam manages my keys and makes re-downloading simple and easy.
Cool! Old school with co-op. Definitely support these guys and their 5 year struggle with their game. :P
BTW…I saw the screenshots when I got to this page and was like 0_o they have old school RPG towns in this game now too? XD
Starbound = best game ever XD
From what I remember when I played the trial of this game, the control scheme is so bad it hurts my brain even thinking about it, and the amount of actual players playing this game is abysmal. I actually think that the developers of Wanderlust are only entering into this partnership to profit off of Starbound as a form of word-of-mouth advertising rather than “supporting Starbound” as it’s originally intended goal. Sure, Chucklefish will get a bit of money from Wanderlust as they sell more copies, but this is just an advertising fee.
Lol? I’ve played this game pretty much since there was a playable beta and never had any control problems. However I am hoping the players pick up substantially after the steam release.
Epiiiiiic *-*
hello i am comming to this site every day sometimes hour and i have to say this game after this random generated monsters thing just blown itself into the top of all gaming..
if it will become so popular then its released isnt this game price suposed to go up?
if so can you reply to this and say the price will go up
This is a great game. You should play it.
two things:
1) “bundling up” in this manner implies (however baseless) that you’re worried that your game may never see release and you’d end up wasting people’s money. this could be completely wrong, but it does appear that way.
2) let’s say i’m not a huge fan of wanderlust and just want to “pre-order” your game, so you get all my money for development and i get the game upon release (i.e. the minecraft model). is that something you’ll do? that would be my preference by a long margin.
cheers,
B
You know, I don’t like the pre-order idea. Then they make the money for what they are basically working on at the time. Look how many companies make all the pre-order money and then just put the game out like “oh they wanted it, so we don’t need to finish it 100%, just give it to them now.” I’m not saying that’s these guys, but frankly I want them to work their hearts out to make the game exactly the way they want it, and then the money will follow, hell $30 and I would still buy it if I knew these guys had communicated with us for the whole development (like they are) and that I was getting a completed game with tons of content and a game that they loved to make and will love to continue to improve upon for the future. Just my opinion.
I meant $60 not $30.
I hate to say this but that sounds stupid. lol the preorder system if anything on an indie game would make me more nervous than this. Especially with how they’re positioning it “we really don’t want your money right now but if you want you can support another indie dev and they’ll put some money towards us”
Will there be updates for Starbound every once in a while? Or is this a one time thing?
I Love everything About this <3<3
If I buy this now will it go towards helping or do I have to wait for it to launch on steam?
woah woah, woah. 1,000,000 is A LOT of things. o:
Do i have to rebuy the steamversion to support Starbound? As i already bought the game via Desura about a Month ago. Not that it’s not worth buying twice, just wanted to know.
No. We only recently announced our publishing agreement, but we signed the agreement quite a while ago. We were just waiting for the final word from Valve to tell everyone.
Thank you so much for supporting us before this announcement, though!
I guess i’ll rebuy it anyway, just for the extra support and because i don’t like switching between steam and desura all the time.
Really can’t wait :D Will we have Trophies this time? :D
Looks fun, i’ll get it when it’s on steam to help and i just prefer having one place for all my games.
Ooo going to check out Wanderlust now. I’ll probably wait for the steam version, but I’ll get my friends to buy it too.
Will we be able to have cats as pets ? Pretty please :3
when the game realese? looks awsome
I was gonna buy it until I saw how bloody it was from the pictures on the main page.
:(
Just bought Wanderlust and am enjoying it like crazy, can’t wait for Starbound.
Interesting.
And procedurally-generated sprites? Really? [0.0] wow.
That game looks fun :)
Also 1,000,000 monsters? Thats alot, especially considering that doesn’t include unique coloring. With unique coloring I would estimate, i dunno, 500,000,000? Anyone think that sounds about right?
will the website bought wanderlust transfer to your steam account?
I wish the best of luck to Yeti Trunk and their new game, and we love you Tiy! :D <3
SO GREAT
I always love to donate to make myself feel good but this works too :D
LOVE YOU STAR BOUND
oxoxoxoxoxo
I bought it on Steam, but when I clicked ‘Install’ a message popped up that said, “Scanning for Steam license updates…” and nothing happens. Help?
Someone should totally gift me Wanderlust if they buy a 4 pack, haha.
i got this game and it didn’t really feel like it was done in 5 years, it feels too grindy, there’s a bunch of areas that seem to be really open and you can’t do anything but fight 3 monsters, singleplayer gives you 4 heroes while playing 2 or 3 players makes you SOL and that lich apprentice boss made me ragequit possibly cause i wasn’t high level enough i guess.
BUT knowing that paying for that POS is suporting starbound doesn’t give me buyers remorse :3
Hey guys!
Just found out about this opportunity to contribute if only a little to your promising project, and what a great way it is!
Congrats for The Wanderlust team’s initiative.
Good luck for both teams and keep up the good work!
Why is that monster in a bra?
Wow close to 1,000,000. i was thinking about onlt 500 – 1,000 wow… i will buy this the day it comes out ;)
Got the four pack for me, my gf and a couple of friends and I can say we have enjoyed the simplicity of this game. Cool game and old school graphs are a big yes to us. Plus we get to support starbound. Which must be released soon. Like…now.
Shut up about THIS and continue with Starbound. We are tired of waiting.