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Terraria keeps getting updates because it keeps selling

Its creator, Andrew Spinks, explains that the enormous success of the title prevents him from abandoning the project permanently, since there is still dema...

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Terraria keeps getting updates because it keeps selling

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Terraria keeps getting updates because it keeps selling

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Some of the best devs out there and a win-win business model. The new content pays for itself since it just keeps bringing people in, and they feel that's plenty of income to not feel like moving to dlc.

This article got me to reinstall it and get mods! I have never tried it with mods
- You're in for a good time! I definitely recommend grabbing the Calamity mod.
  
  I grabbed Calamity, Thorium, and Terraria Overhaul for the major "game changing" mods, and a few other QoL mods

I like it, and would recommend the game, but I'd honestly rather have a new game in the same sort of genre.
I think that it'd be possible to take elements from a variety of games like Terraria, Starbound, Noita, maybe Oxygen Not Included and do something even cooler.
Noita models at the pixel level rather than the tile level and has a physics engine.
Starbound has neat atmospheric lighting effects. I'd love to see that, maybe add in fog, godrays, glare, etc.
Oxygen Not Included lets one build devices. Terraria and Starbound let you build bases, but they can't really do anything.
If the budget permits, high-res art would be neat. Pixel art lets the brain interpolate a lot, fill in the lack of detail, but if they have the budget to do the higher-res stuff, I'd like it.
Leveraging the 3d hardware might be nice. IIRC Terraria and definitely Oxygen Not Included use it for zooming, but I don't think much else. Various distortions and other effects would be neat.
Ditto for multiple threads. Yeah, it's a cost in dev and debugging time, takes some work, but you can get maybe an order of magnitude speedup. CPU single-threaded speeds haven't improved much in about two decades.
The control is...kind of clunky. I'd love to have something with the feel of, I dunno, Super Metroid or something, one of the successful platformers.
More music, maybe effects like lighting that pulses in time with music, better dynamic transitions.
- I would love a version that just has higher quality pixel art. I think the best part of the game is it being 2D and it will loose a lot of its charm switching to 3D
  
  2D is easier to mod too, but I think they meant just shaders and effects, like HD-2D stuff.

I hope people don’t hate me for this, but I just couldn’t get into this game
- Why would people hate you for it? Some just hate to grief, and any reason given is just flimsy pretense, so dont mind those meatbags.
  Not every game is for everyone, thats just the way of things.

The author misquoted them in a strange way. Is this AI lol.

Starting really playing just a few weeks ago despite having the game for years.
It definitely helps to have the wiki on standby. There's very little direction on how to do things and without the wiki I would have been lost. Especially since I got to hard mode and once you get to the point you can be gibbed with a moments notice until you get better gear.
- Handmade jungle is a nightmare

Started playing for the first time two days ago! :)
- Terraria is my favorite game. I wish I could experience the game brand new all over again.

I've never reached the wall of flesh stage. And I think the only boss I killed was the slime king. Very difficult game, and sometimes it gives you that feeling of smashing your computer. But it's really big and fun.

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