News Cube World - releasing September 30

[prudis]

Cube World

What is Cube World?
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up of entirely of cubes.

Who develops Cub World?
I'm Wollay, the creator of Cube World. I started this game in June 2011. My inspirations were Minecraft, Zelda, Secret of Mana, Monster Hunter, Diablo, World of Warcraft and many more. My aim was to create an infinite, colorful, procedurally generated world, full of adventures, monsters, and mysteries. The result is Cube World, a voxel-based role-playing game.

My wife joined development in 2012, and we have released the alpha version for Windows PC in July 2013. The alpha already has many features, but some are still missing. You can check out a feature overview below.


Features

• Choose between four different classes: Warrior, Ranger, Mage, Rogue.
• Action-based combat with dodging, aiming, combos, special skills and more.
• Explore a nearly infinite, procedurally generated fantasy world.
• Plan your next adventure with the 3D voxel world map. Scroll and zoom everywhere to find your next destination!
• Craft weapons, armor, potions, elixirs and food and more from ingredients found throughout the world.
• Tame pets that fight along your side and can be used as mounts.
• Non-linear, open world gameplay. Solve quests, help residents, fight huge monsters, explore ancient dungeons! It's all up to you!
• Discover procedurally generated lore and learn about ancient civilizations and magic artifacts.
• Retrieve unique magic artifacts to level up and improve your skills.
• Earn gold to buy items or to book an eagle flight to new lands.
• Cube World's unique per-land progression system makes finding loot, solving quests and clearing dungeons rewarding and exciting over and over again.
• Use your hang glider to take to the skies or explore the oceans with your boat.
• Find magic items to enter secret areas and to support you on your journey.
• Play solo singleplayer or join your friends in coop-online-multiplayer.

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[lashman]

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I thought that game was dead! Nice to see it still getting updates and eventually a release.

 

[Overture]

What the fuck? Never thought it would happen.

 

[sk2k]

No. I do not believe this. No.

EDIT: Thanks to Keepas i still have my login credentials to download the Alpha. I hope that Alpha buyers will receive a Steam key.

FAKE EDIT: I hope Timmy will not interfere.

 

[Alexandros]

Long awaited game releasing on Steam in a few weeks? My Epic sense is tingling.

 

[prudis]

 

[Alextended]

This looked awesome back when I first discovered it but now after the initial surprise I'm not sure, might wait for Hytale instead, but that may be a long wait.

 

[PC-Patriot]

I snapped up a copy of this when it was first released wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in 2013......... Jesus H. that is nearly 7 years ago, I feel old. I dunno why I bought it, it isn't necessarily my kind of thing but I did enjoy it and put a fair few hours into it. Not sure if I am interested enough to buy it again though on steam. but yeah WOW it is coming out properly at last.

So with this update coming I got curious to see if I still had the game installed on my PC/ Holy shit it is , nearly 7 years this game has been on my PC in that time I have gone through like 3 GPU's and switched to an entirely new operating system yet it was still there sitting on the hard drive untouched since the initial burst of play all them years ago.

This tells me one thing, I need a bloody new computer ASAP

 

[Arsene]

I snapped up a copy of this when it was first released wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in 2013......... Jesus H. that is nearly 7 years ago, I feel old. I dunno why I bought it, it isn't necessarily my kind of thing but I did enjoy it and put a fair few hours into it. Not sure if I am interested enough to buy it again though on steam. but yeah WOW it is coming out properly at last.

So with this update coming I got curious to see if I still had the game installed on my PC/ Holy shit it is , nearly 7 years this game has been on my PC in that time I have gone through like 3 GPU's and switched to an entirely new operating system yet it was still there sitting on the hard drive untouched since the initial burst of play all them years ago.

This tells me one thing, I need a bloody new computer ASAP

Good news for you, All people who bought the Alpha in 2013 get a Steam code for free.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

How have so many people i know bought this back in the day yet never mentioned it? I mean, i didn't mention it much either but so many people i know are digging through their emails to reset their Cube World passwords recently, lol.

Even the alpha in it's relatively barebones implementation can have me spending hours generating seeds and travelling the worlds looking for cool stuff.

Good to hear about alpha people getting Steam keys, that's neat.

 

[Arsene]

How have so many people i know bought this back in the day yet never mentioned it? I mean, i didn't mention it much either but so many people i know are digging through their emails to reset their Cube World passwords recently, lol.

Even the alpha in it's relatively barebones implementation can have me spending hours generating seeds and travelling the worlds looking for cool stuff.

Good to hear about alpha people getting Steam keys, that's neat.

All my friends that bought it pretty much forgot about it or repressed it from their memories lol

I would tell them whenever the dev came back to twitter for the once a year update, and they would always tell me "oh yeah I forgot I bought this"

 

[PC-Patriot]

Good news for you, All people who bought the Alpha in 2013 get a Steam code for free.

That us great to hear, I didn't want to "presume" we would get a copy. I dunno nearly 7 years since it's release and still expecting devs to "honour" early adopters feels like a massive grey area to me. Now having said that Kudo's to Woolly and the missus for honouring purchases that far back and my hat off to them for keeping this game alive for seven years.

 

[prudis]

Dear Cube World Community,

I think this is the right place for this. This is where it all started, where my little passion project came to life and became something much bigger.

Here is my explanation why everything took me so long, why there were no updates and so on...

When I released Cube World back in 2013 on our homepage, I was enthusiastic to finally share my game with you. It was a dream come true for me, I wanted to be a game developer since I was a kid.

As some of you might remember, we got DDoS'ed as soon as we opened the shop. It might sound silly, but this event traumatized me and kind of broke something inside me. I never told anyone about it, and I don't want to go into the details, but I'm dealing with anxiety and depression ever since. Social media didn't improve it, as you might imagine. I'm still not sure if it's a good idea to tell the world about it, but I wanted to give the fans an explanation.

There were several points in the past years where I considered releasing an update, but every time I was afraid it wasn't good enough. I'm also a bit pefectionist and it made me rework everything from scratch several times. The version I'm planning to release is basically Cube World 2.0. There are still many things I'd like to add in the future, but I think the version is already fun.

I hope some of you will enjoy the upcoming release. I'm currently working on the new homepage and still want to add some lore-related things to the game before the release.

Wollay

http://wollay.blogspot.com/2019/09/dear-cube-world-community-i-think-this.htm

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[EdwardTivrusky]

Wollay, i'll buy another couple of copies for friends and giveaways when this releases!

 

[PC-Patriot]

Just checked my picroma account now (yes I had to go down to the dusty vaults and dust off the scroll of ancient passcodes that sits next to the lost Ark of the covenent). Lo and behold there is a steam key there for access to the Beta. So if there are others here with a picroma account and purchased the original game check your accounts.

 

[sk2k]

Just checked my picroma account now (yes I had to go down to the dusty vaults and dust off the scroll of ancient passcodes that sits next to the lost Ark of the covenent). Lo and behold there is a steam key there for access to the Beta. So if there are others here with a picroma account and purchased the original game check your accounts.

Got it.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Thanks PC-Patriot ! Got my Beta invite! woooot. I've put about 20 hours into Cube World this last week after the announcement.

 

[Fluffynov]

So good that it finally releases. I remember the major backlash back in the day with people accusing him and his wife of being frauds etc. Great to see he seems to have overcome his struggles somewhat and is able to release the game proper now. I've already installed the game on steam and I'm ready to jump in on the 23rd!

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

It's so good to see it coming together for release and i hope they're in a better place now. I remember the remarks sometime after the alpha went out and yeah, no wonder they kept their heads down and carried on in the background. Hopefully aside from some shitlords most people will just be glad to see the game progressing and wollay feeling confident enough to go public again.

 

[prudis]

Cube World is coming to Steam on 30 September 2019!

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

I've been playing the alpha on and off for years, it's entertained me for hours and now it's on Steam too so hopefully i can play it for years ahead. The developments look awesome and yet it still looks like the same Cube World i love. Just more of it. Good work Wollay and Pixxie! You timed the release for my week off work too, thanks!

 

[Deleted member 113]

Looks really cool!

I remember wanting to buy the alpha, but they took out the option to purchase it.
The video posted above looks really good, impressive even, I would say.

I like the look and scale of the game world.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Hmmmmm, the Beta is great and the improvements and additions are awesome but there's changes to items and levelling that make it quite different to alpha.

edit: A few hours later and i think i'm getting used to the differences now. It's starting to click with me as i start to understand the new systems. There are now zones which are smaller but can have one or more biome types within them which keeps things fresh as you wander around.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Now i've played the new iteration of Cube World for a few hours it's clicked with me and i'm enjoying it a lot more. I can see myself flip-flopping between Cube World and Cube World alpha as they are quite different in some core mechanics and play style. Overall though, once the shock-of-the-new has worn off the new Cube World is fun.

I'd like to setup a multiplayer session at some point, that could be super fun with 4 people.

Also you can pet almost everything - Insta-GOTY!

 

[Fluffynov]

checked it out for a bit and I'm kinda lost lmao. I've found the glider and some harp that opens locked doors. I chose to play as a mage and I'm getting killed by everything I've come across so far. I love running around but I wish there was at least some sort of guidance or minimal tutorial. I have no idea how to craft stuff (I've found the menu for it but that's about it). Maybe I gotta run around a bit more. Is there a content/bigger update planned for launch?

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Fluffynov - No idea what's planned for launch but here's some tips i've put behind a spoiler in case people want to work it out themselves.

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Once the game clicked for me i started to really enjoy it. It's Cube World at heart and i can put on some podcasts and play it for hours. I'm in love again.

 

[Deku]

How much did the game cost during the alpha time? Just wondering

 

[Fluffynov]

15€s Deques

Fluffynov - No idea what's planned for launch but here's some tips i've put behind a spoiler in case people want to work it out themselves.

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Once the game clicked for me i started to really enjoy it. It's Cube World at heart and i can put on some podcasts and play it for hours. I'm in love again.

Thanks for the tips! Much appreciated