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Nice job guys! Those are 2 things I noticed. The mining and the icons! Keep up the good work, stay excited, help people. (Also, I think you should edit the Soundtrack of the week, I don’t want you guys to offend anyone)

Well now you’ve just gone and made us all curious about the strange demographics! Thanks for the update! Can’t wait to see the fruit of all your efforts!!

Nice update. When doing the UI, don’t forget to include bindable hotkeys though!

Nice short and sweet diary :) i’m really interested on seeing how the radial menu will turn out seeing as that will be a very useful tool!

This project is starting to feel something like Star Command Story in that you say we would get prototype/beta releases and seem to be waiting an unneeded amount of time to release them. The beta is a little more understandable but I feel like the prototype should have been release nearly immediate. It is, after all, a prototype; A first or preliminary model of something. It doesn’t need to work well, if at all (you did say it might be broken) or look pretty or be easy to use. By releasing it, everyone would have gotten what they wanted and what they paid for and you would start getting feed back. By not releasing it all you’re doing is causing people to become anxious. I just don’t understand.

On another note, the game looks amazing and I can’t wait to play it.

YAY!

guyes, if u promisse that you would hand out the prototype RIGHT after the kickstarter ended then u realy have to do that. i almost regret buying the game becous if i knew i had to wait i could just skip this game and buy some other game. im realy dissapointed becous ive been waiting like 30 weaks for it to come out but still nothing :(

FEZ is definitely worth it. Wish they went the whole length with a few of the harder puzzles, but otherwise I have no complaints about it. It’s brilliant.

O, Now I’m well interested in the game’s demographics.

“I won’t dive into that subject, but it is certainly a bit weird.”

Why mention it then? It’s obvious that people are going to ask if you say something like that.

My best guess, if it’s similar to the general gamer demographics, you just weren’t expecting so many big sizes.

“It also gives us a rather strange view on our Kickstarter backers demographics. I won’t dive into that subject, but it is certainly a bit weird.”

Such a tease! Come on, out with it! :P

On another note, nice to hear things are advancing smoothly. I just bought a new laptop with nice specs, so I’m all ready for the prototype – can’t wait to get it!

Sounds like cool work guys!

Can I just say, ignore the clowns who are bitching about not having the prototype yet. Clearly you have a hell of a lot of administrative work to do since the kickstarter drive totally blew up, so you wouldn’t have had much time for dev. And there’s not much point releasing something totally broken as a prototype. First impressions are critical, so I’m sure you guys want to make sure you get something decent out there.

So yeah, don’t feel like you have to rush the prototype release to satisfy the very small majority who are complaining about not having it. Just remember that there are 27,000 backers, so even if you get 100 comments complaining, that’s only a tiny fraction. Most of us are waiting patiently! :)

Hi, every time i try to send and email to you guys, this is all i’ve got:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

[email protected]

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try
550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient’s email address for typos or
550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces.

Any ideas ?

Quick question, how are CS worlds going to work? Can you make multiple worlds at once and are they all different? Also, how do you get more Bricktrons? Do they spawn naturally in the wild?

HEY I DIDNT RECIEVE ANY EMAILS FROM SAUROPOD STUDIO!!!!!

Wow I can’t believe all these losers with their entitlement issues. Get over yourselves. Making a game is not like making a sandwich. With game development, if you cut the tomatoes wrong you don’t just eat it anyway, you fix it.

Sounds like you guys have been busy. =)
On another topic – I liked the sound track of the week and also can’t wait to listen to some of castle stories music. Also I loved the castle stories trailer music.

please say can i buy this game not with credit card. Have it got some variants to pay!

Hi Guys,

I only found out about Castle Story yesterday and it looks like it will be a brilliant RTS. Is it still possible to join the BETA, and if so how?

So many prototype whiners, it’s really pathetic. Seriously guys, you do realize no matter when they released the prototype, you are still getting it before anyone else in a future beta…so even if they didn’t release a prototype for another year, you are still getting what you paid for.

hee i dont want to be annoying or anything but it is 17 october over here GRRRR, i want my stuff…… nah just joking im reckoning its here tommorow, but any ways thnx for the great media and awsome ingame music to keep me busy for the time being i loved to see this come to fruit and now i wanna eat da fruit.

cheers and many greets from edward.

I think people are missing the point with whining about the prototype. There was a price difference between getting the prototype and not. It was 25 dollars versus 15. If we have to wait for the beta anyways, why would we want to pay the extra amount? It seems like some people paid 10 dollars more than other people for the same thing. That’s unfair and enough to make people get grumpy.

I personally would have rather paid the extra 15 dollars and got 2 accounts, instead of paying an extra 10 to seemingly get nothing. I like the idea of supporting you guys, but it would be nice if I did it from my own free will, rather than being told something that was false. It kinda feels like a I got fleeced.

Guys, if they had originally told you that the prototype was available on Oct 17th you wouldn’t even be on here complaining. I can’t believe how entitled people become when they back something on Kickstarter. They said in Update 2 that they misworded the pledges so you guys had plenty of notice to either back out or change your pledge.

Seriously, grow up and be more patient. They gave you a date, now please respect that and wait.

Does anybody remember how long it took them to set up the kickstarter? They had to jump through quite a few hoops in order to get to it, right? Well, they also had to jump through some hoops to get the funding. Then they had to buy a website in order to have those who donated through kickstarter all in one place once their kickstarter account closed. Now, i would think that getting the funding in it’s self would take a couple of weeks. Setting up the website (which couldn’t be done without the money, mind you) does take some time and care if they want to make sure everything is accurate. It would be harsh if some people who were suppose to get certain things weren’t able to because of an input error.

Now, I’d prefer not to get a prototype that is broken and also, not just the ‘add an enemy here or make this pile of stuff infinite’; like what they show in some of the game play videos. What they showed was just that, the simple mechanics of the game. They need to actually make a ‘game version’ to hand out as a prototype and will get it out when that part is finished. Hell, that part doesn’t have to include the enemies and such since we didn’t see that till the trailer.

Remember that patience is what made everyone wait for the kickstarter; it shouldn’t be a problem to understand that things do take time and that they will live up to their promises. I mean come on, they don’t have much experience dealing with this kind of demand from, what was it, 22,000 or so people? Give them some slack and you won’t regret it.

As for the team, you guys have been awesome and we do appreciate the hard work that you put into everything; from the websites to your response for all of us and such. Keep up the good work and stay warm.

Aloha from Hawai’i

I do understand that things change, and that sometimes you can’t live up to what you were saying. However, I do feel appropriately entitled when I would have made a different choice of my pledge. I would not have paid 25 dollars, I would have paid either 15 or 30. In other words, the 25$ pledge was disqualified, as they cannot deliver on the only thing that differentiated it from the other pledges. It’s fine if they can’t deliver, but I would appreciate the opportunity to pay the extra 5 dollars to change my pledge to one they can actually deliver on (ie 2 accounts) or get a refund to have my pledge again be on a level where they can deliver the reward (ie wait for the beta, which I seemed to have overpaid to do anyways). It’s not whining, it’s a legitimate complaint that should be easily rectified. Even a proper explanation and laying out of their plans to fix the situation would be great. Not acknowledging that some people paid 166% of what other people paid for the same thing, especially when it was easy to be fooled into thinking that you were getting something different, leaves a bad taste.

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I wan LONGER Dev Diaries, pleeeease

Booooooooooooooooooo!!!
Want game!
Not want wait!

Seriously though they first said:
-Prototype with end of Kickstarter
then
-Prototype on 20th of September
and now
-Prototype on 17th of October

On 17th of Oct they’ll say next year….Sauro pls.

“Dad are we there yet? Are we? Uh? Dad? Are we there? How long? Is it going to be soon? Are we there yet? And now? And now? How long? And now?”

Boy, I honestly hope that people who are complaining about the prototype are not older than 10, otherwise it’d just be embarassing.

As far as we know, the beta could come out even after January, not to mention the uncertainty about the official release. Getting the prototype by the 17th of October is perfectly acceptable.

Now just sit down and take this whole month to try and grow up a little. If there ever will be a multiplayer in the game, I REALLY hope not to end up with any of the whiners.

got to wonder about these “test subjects” remembering some backers are meant to have the first usable prototype…getting abit redic.

Don’t listen to all the nay sayers QQing about not having the game in their hands yet. Were all excited to play it for sure, but whining to the dev.s isn’t going to help in the least. As far as I’m concerned, they should take all the time they need to create a polished and fun video game!

Looking forward to this so much!

BRONIES REJOICE! We should make alot of pony mods for this, like cmaking the evil guys to changelings! And the bricktrons to simple ponies! Like the builders = earth ponies, archers = unicorns and warriors = pegasi!

Why all the brony hate? They have feelings as well!

Oh and it should at least be mod-friendly.

Forgive me but I thought the idea of ‘KICKSTARTER’ was to give some seed money so the game developers could fund themselves while they further developed the game, and as a reward for those people who had faith in the idea they presented they would give us the chance to play a proto type of the game prior to its release and help them with testing some aspects of the game and provide feedback.

So unless I get a postcard from them saying they have used my money to go off to some tropical island with a bunch of oiled up semi naked bimbos (or himbos, no one is judging), then they can take as long as they need to develop the game.

You DID NOT buy a game you HELPED OUT stuggling (posible starving) game developers to do their stuff.

Besides the 17th of October is not that long to wait….

Its not like they have to read any of the complainets above, there is no useful information being posted at this point that will further help development, if anything all this is a distraction. NOW QUIT READING THIS AND GET MY DANM GAME DONE SAUROPOD!!!!!

Thank you,
Understanding Gamer Brian

You guys. Just let Sauropod work and shush :) First, i didn’t really want to write yet another “Shush and let them work” post, but after i read through the comments, i feel obliged to do so just to balance the negative post amount.

So here it is. I think you’re doing just fine and i’m more than happy to wait for a version that you are comfortable with releasing. Keep up the good work, Sauropod, and keep up your good mood as well :)

You guys have already made ??a video for gameplay.
Released Just finally what you have as a prototype.
If the software has bugs, it’s not so bad.
The prototype tester can judge the game much more objective => “What the user wanted!”
Then all happy – Why not?

I do think the prototype should be atleast alittle polished so im more then happy to wait and people you didnt pay to get your game the day after the kickstarter ended you payed for the prototype at or before oct 17 you should be happy we may get it before oct 17

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Geez guys, people aren’t complaining because they’re sick of waiting, they’re complaining because a prototype ISN’T supposed to be polished. How are people going to help Sauropod by finding bugs and stuff in the early releases if all the bugs have already been fixed?

Great update. Have you guys thought about selling preorders on the website? Since the Kickstarter is over, you could just make it a bit more expensive, like 20 dollar. And they would get into the beta with that.
I guess it would take a bit of time to make that, since you will first have to finish of the castle story website, but i imagine, when the prototype is out and there will be quite a few gameplay videos on youtube, you would see a lot of people who would love to preorder the game.

c,mon guys more info like is there gonna be some sort of money