Stonehearth
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- CPU: Info
- CPU SPEED: Intel or AMD Processor, 2.0 GHz or better
- RAM: 2 GB
- OS: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
- VIDEO CARD: nVidia GeForce 200 512MB, Radeon HD 3450 512MB, Intel HD 3000
- PIXEL SHADER: 4.0
- VERTEX SHADER: 4.0
- FREE DISK SPACE: 500 MB
- DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 512 MB
Stonehearth Recommended Requirements
- CPU: Info
- CPU SPEED: Intel or AMD Dual-Core or better, 2.6GHz+
- RAM: 4 GB
- OS: Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 64-bit
- VIDEO CARD: nVidia GeForce 560 1024MB or better, AMD Radeon HD 7790 1024MB or better
- PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
- VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
- FREE DISK SPACE: 500 MB
- DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 1024MB
| Stonehearth | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Radiant Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Riot Games |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, macOS |
| Release | July 25, 2018 |
| Genre(s) | City-building |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Stonehearth is a 2018 city-building game developed by Radiant Entertainment. After an early access phase beginning in 2015, the game was released for Microsoft Windows and macOS on July 25, 2018. A tentative port for Linux was canceled, along with several 'stretch goals' from its crowdfunding campaign.[1]
Gameplay[edit]
Stonehearth features a randomly generated world where players manage a colony of people called 'Hearthlings'. Players are tasked with caring for their hearthlings including, feeding, sheltering, and defending them from the dangers like orcs and skeletons.
The player will be asked to choose a starting race, supply kit (e.g. combat oriented kits, farming orientinted kits and hunting oriented kits) and a starting region. The starting location for the player is indicated by a lit up swuare around the centre of the circle, with the map being finite.
After development ended for the game, modders have since created many well-made mods that add content, improve performance and fixed issues with the game. A notable mod is known as the ACE mod.
'ACE was born out of the desire of creating an even better and richer Stonehearth 1.0 experience. It is a community-driven project that aims to polish and improve on the base game by adding depth and content to areas that feel lackluster, diversifying and adding variability to the existing content and finishing off many unfinished or never started ideas and projects that Team Radiant originally had for the game or promised (in the Kickstarter or else) but was unfortunately unable to get there. ACE stands for 'Authorized Community Expansion' but it can also be understood as the three main pillars of our development and design goals'
Development[edit]
Stonehearth was developed by Radiant Entertainment, a company founded by Tom and Tony Cannon, co-founders of the fighting gameeSports event Evolution Championship Series.[2] Described as a 'passion project' by Tom Cannon, the brothers spent two years making a prototype before creating a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation in 2013. Asking for $120,000, the campaign ended with $751,920 and 22,844 backers.[3][4] After the success of the Kickstarter, the development team was expanded with friends of the brothers after pitching the idea to them.[3]
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Tom Cannon credits Maxis' Sim games and Dwarf Fortress as inspiration for the city-building mechanics, while the class system was inspired by Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.[5]
On June 3, 2015, the game was released on Steam Early Access.[3]
Development on the game ended in 2018 with several promised features from the Kickstarter left unimplemented.[1], even though the game Kickstarter surpassed the original goal.
Reception[edit]
Reviewing the early access build of the game, Brendan Caldwell from Rock, Paper, Shotgun criticized the pacing, saying that the “build, defend, grow” cycle of the game distracts from the creative side of the game. Caldwell also critiqued the limitations on what to make in the game beyond houses and garrisons.[6] Paul Tamburro from Game Revolution raised the issue of repetitiveness in the game, also criticizing the pace by calling it lackadaisical.[7]
Lena LeRey, writing at Indiegames.com, acknowledged that the early access release was buggy, but still full of promise.[8] At PC Gamer, Christoper Livingston said that he found himself engrossed in the town building elements of the alpha build, but said that he would 'probably wait for the beta before [getting] too invested'.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ abWood, Austin (July 6, 2018). 'Stonehearth's development will end this month, without meeting all its Kickstarter stretch goals'. PC Gamer. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- ^Evan Narcisse (April 30, 2013). 'They Changed Fighting Games, Now They're Making Something New'. Kotaku. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ abcFillari, Alessandro (June 3, 2015). 'Stonehearth is out now on Steam Early Access'. Destructoid. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- ^Radiant Entertainment (April 29, 2013). 'Stonehearth'. Kickstarter. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^Clouther, Andrew (May 23, 2013). 'Interview: Talking Stonehearth with co-creator Tom Cannon'. GameZone. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
- ^Caldwell, Brendan (July 11, 2016). 'Premature Evaluation: Stonehearth'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Gamer Network. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- ^Tamburro, Pau (June 22, 2015). 'Stonehearth Early Access Review'. Game Revolution. Crave Online. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
- ^LeRay, Lena (June 10, 2015). 'Early Access Pick: Stonehearth is rough yet, but full of promise'. Indiegames.com. UBM plc. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
- ^Christopher Livingston (June 1, 2015). 'Stonehearth: the townbuilding game with an unfortunate name'. PC Gamer. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
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