Starbound [Winter Update!]

Unfortunately they haven't shown any signs of them realizing what those important things are. I feel like Chucklefish is FAR too inexperienced to take on a project THIS ambitious; it's like when other indie devs give advice to aspiring creators they always say, "Start small. Try working on mods or prototype games first" but Chucklefish didn't listen to any of that. Every time they make some update announcement, or future plans I think to myself, "And how are you going to make all these things work...?"

They keep throwing too many different ideas into the pot and hoping it all eventually settles and becomes a nice meal. They have no clear direction for the game to go in. The game seems to be created entirely off of every single member of the team going, "You know, this would be really cool!" and they implement it before thinking about HOW that idea fits in first -- if it does at all.

Their "the future of Starbound" post gave me a lot of that impression. I'm not sure how they expect to fit all of this stuff together.

I guess either the game will flop or it won't. I'm happy to have supported this project but I'm not sure they'll be successful, or at least as successful as they want to be.