Tynan Sylvester
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Creator of RimWorld and author of Designing Games.
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Announcing RimWorld - Anomaly!
Full post:
Awaken the monolith. Face squealing fleshbeasts, invisible hunters, mind-controlling parasites, mad cultists, and world-swallowing abyssal darkness. Capture monsters in your containment facility. Perform psychic
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Announcing RimWorld - Biotech!
Babies, children, gene-modding, gene-modded factions, mechanoid control and infrastructure, new mechs, pollution, super-mechanoid bosses, secret societies of deathless blood-drinkers, tons more.
Full post:
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Gonna announce a new RimWorld expansion in 2 hours
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Today in fun RimWorld bugs
Clever system: People will refuse to attend rituals if the temperature in the ritual area is too cold for them.
Result: Prisoner refuses to attend his own execution because he thinks it'll be too chilly.
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After 5 years of early access, RimWorld 1.0 will be released tomorrow!
Get ready for exciting Yorkshire terrier invasions, dramatic love triangles, and casual organ trading.
Blog post:
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RimWorld 1.0 has been released!
It took five+ years, but my dream of chinchilla farming, lovemaking, pirate-shooting, organ-trading space cowboys has come to fruition.
Launch trailer:
Blog post:
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How feedback loops work in game design (with RimWorld)
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RimWorld - Biotech is out! Our new RimWorld expansion with babies and children, gene-modding, and mechanoid control. 15 months of work - so good to finally put it out there. Hope you love it.
Steam page:
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RimWorld - Anomaly is out!
In this horror-themed expansion, face invisible hunters, mad cultists, shambling undead, and crushing darkness. Capture entities in your containment facility. Conduct psychic rituals and awaken an evil machine god.
Steam:
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This is "Merc Game", one of RimWorld's predecessor prototypes, 9 months before the original RimWorld Kickstarter. January 2012.
I never finished this game - I didn't think the concept worked well - but re-used the tech in 3 other prototypes and to create RimWorld.
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I'm happy we did something new with Anomaly.
Sometimes you need to take a leap and try something different to open up more surface area for the design.
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RimWorld is the
#1
top player-reviewed game on Steam for 2018! From all categories.
Thanks so much to all those who took the time write a review, and to the whole community. I hope to keep serving you well.
Rankings from:
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Hard to believe it's been that long!
Thanks to everyone who joined me on this journey. I've loved sharing it with all of you.
Happy 10 years of RimWorld! ✨🎂
RimWorld's first public release was on November 4, 2013. (Who remembers the pre-alpha days?)
Thank you to our wonderful players and community for this incredible journey together!
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Latest RimWorld expansion is doing great in the puns department. Beat these:
"My miners who are also minors"
"Biotech: putting the infant in infantry"
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So apparently this is what someone at Valve thinks RimWorld is about...
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Ho ho ho, merry RimWorld Christmas to all!
It's been a wonderful year and I'm thankful for everyone's support - fans, modders, and the great devs I get to work with.
I am wishing the best to everyone, especially those who are lonely or sick this Christmas.
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RimWorld update 1.3 is now in public beta, and we've announced the Ideology expansion - coming soon!
Steam event:
Reddit:
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RimWorld 1.0 will be released October 17!
Blog post:
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It's pretty easy to design a game where the player just constantly wins rewards.
The tricky task is making a game that pushes back without feeling unfair.
Setbacks, losses, failure and recovery are where the spiky delicious drama comes in.
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I love how a RimWorld colony looks rendered like this. So much personality but it also matches the game so well.
Full size image:
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Uncle Charlie sitting in his favorite chair.
Love that people pick out these fun details in the Biotech screenshots.
From Reddit:
Original screenshot from:
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Good question
If you're not meant to eat people why are they made of meat?
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Just dropped a new RimWorld update that adds an "ambient horror" mode for Anomaly.
No longer must the monolith take over your game!
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I usually wouldn't comment on reviews but this part of
@PCGamer
's review needs addressing.
All trans character descriptions were written by players through our "Backstory in Game" program. I don't think it's my place to censor how people describe their own experiences. /1
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Wow! RimWorld - Royalty is currently the top global seller on Steam! Thank you everyone.
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Years of combing through player feedback for RimWorld made a huge difference. No intermediaries; we just read the forum posts and Discord messages directly. See enough data points and you can discern the trends pretty clearly without formal metrics.
I was continuously distressed at Meta over how few people in the VR org would actually talk to customers using the products, or even read the app reviews and user voice comments they had taken the time to write. Bold New Visions were way more popular than Fixing Broken Shit.
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Winston and Scout trying really hard to look after the baby
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Merry Christmas everyone!
May your meals be lavish and your mental breaks be mild.
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RimWorld - Ideology expansion is released!
Make your story of pirate nudist cannibals, blind mole people, rustic cowboys, flesh-hating transhumanists, or anything else you like.
Steam:
DRM-free:
Reddit:
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RimWorld - Biotech preview post
#3
is posted! Reproduction, children, genetic modification, and release date.
Article here:
Reddit discussion:
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In response to player feedback (thank you), I just released a RimWorld update that adds the ability to start with a simple belief system and develop it over time.
Full notes here!
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Imagine an RPG dungeon was actually real. It would be unbelievably terrifying. People going into a dark unmapped tunnel network where they mostly get torn apart, poisoned, and burned to death by hideous creatures.
Every fantasy RPG is a horror game.
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RimWorld's 1.4 content update is in public beta testing now with cross-expansion integration between Ideology and Biotech.
Let's get those vampire-worshiper colonies going, folks.
Reddit:
Steam announcement:
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When an indie dev says their project is "ambitious", it generally just means their project is badly overscoped and they'll never finish what they're trying to do.
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Alright alright, it took almost 10 years but we finally made some merch!
Meet the thrumbo:
Rare thrumbos have wandered into the area! Get yours now before they move on!
💙
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Tragic and poignant fan art from
@NewtonZephyr
based on the RimWorld Biotech screenshots
We were hoping someone would notice Porkchop and her dog in their little hiding spot.
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RimWorld has begun its first 20% off sale on Steam!
The first two expansions are also 10% off each.
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RimWorld is the 24th best game on Steam of all time, as ranked by player reviews. Proud!
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This is actually totally fine for a small one-person project with no intention of ever having a team, or modding, or more complex data.
One should use the most stupid-simple approach that's viable for the situation. A lot of code out there is overdesigned.
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RimWorld - Biotech preview post
#4
is up! Xenotypes, world factions, and the dark blood-drinkers. Release on Friday, Oct 21.
Read it:
Reddit discussion:
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RimWorld has sold over a million copies. Platinum status!
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RimWorld 1.0 will have bridges.
You can build most (but not all) buildings on them, which opens up the possibility of floating colonies on coastal maps.
But, the bridges can burn down or be destroyed by bombs, so be careful!
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This RimWorld mod is unbelievable... travel between planets on a fully simulated spaceship with a new space-based endgame. Holy crap.
Save Our Ship 2
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I say make a core game fast in under a year. If it does well, expand it afterward.
RimWorld originally took a year solo. Then we expanded it for 10 years.
@FalconeerDev
"-dont make simple games , make games few can copy, either thru depth , originality or production values."
is what I keep saying but for some reason I always hear the "make games fast under a year" advice, both are not compatible unless you have a real budget.
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RimWorld - Biotech preview post
#2
is up! Combat mechanoids, pollution system, mechanitor upgrades, and three super-mechanoids to defeat for fun and profit.
Read it:
Reddit discussion:
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Holy crap someone made a world edit mod and recreated Earth in RimWorld
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DOOM now runs on... RimWorld
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RimWorld 1.1 is up for public testing on the 'unstable' Steam branch!
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RimWorld Royalty expansion and free update to 1.1 have been released!
Full info in the announcement:
Trailer:
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RimWorld's 1.2 update is coming soon!
In today's screenshot you can note the crashed shuttle defense, jump packs, and a few other fun things for those with eagle eyes.
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RimWorld now has over 10,000 mods on the Steam workshop, with over 1,600 being updated to the latest 1.2 release!
Big thank you to all the modders out there. Awesome.
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RimWorld - Biotech's first preview blog post is up! This one covers the mechanitor and labor mechanoids.
Blog post:
Reddit discussion:
Original Biotech announcement:
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I am a machine that converts food into video games.
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For me, RimWorld was definitely a labor of love. If you agree, please nominate it on the Steam Awards.
You can do it from the store page:
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RimWorld Console Edition is coming to Xbox One and PS4 on July 29th! Finally!
Project Twitter:
@RimWorldConsole
Trailer:
Full details:
Ported and published by the talented team at
@DoubleElevenLtd
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I have the ambition of making RimWorld something worth playing for at least a few people in the 22nd century.
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What if RimWorld had graphics like Wolfenstein 3D?
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@pcgamer
I am asking
@PCGamer
to issue a correction to clarify that these words they're calling "reductive" and "bad taste" were written by players describing their own trans self-perspectives, not by a game writer.
@ELahti
@SamMGreer
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More info on RimWorld's upcoming Ideology expansion! Today we're talking about social roles and rituals.
And the Reddit discussion:
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Such a noble thrumbo
some rimworld fanart i did last year. might finish the rest of the animals & make it into a poster if it's... legally allowed haha
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I'd love to hear from any dev teams affected by collapsing publishers or employers.
@LudeonStudios
(RimWorld developer) would love to join up with awesome projects and people.
Interested teams please throw me a tweet reply or DM!
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Congrats to
@Bay12Games
and
@KitfoxGames
for the Dwarf Fortress release!
Can't wait to dive in and strike the earth. Hoping for an entertaining tantrum spiral or similar.
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Ludeon Studios, developer of RimWorld, is hiring! Seeking a lead designer, developers, and multiplayer specialists.
-No crunch ever
-Remote work on your own time
-Visible impact
-Interesting and original projects and challenges
Details here:
Thanks all!
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Players figured out that when you're attacking a base, you can shut down the turrets by bringing a sun lamp linking it to the power grid, thus exhausting the batteries. I never imagined this emergence.
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@pcgamer
This part of the review implies that I, as the developer, was supposed to be writing trans backstories in a more correct way.
But what words can possibly be more correct than the actual words of a trans person? /2
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Remember Porkchop and her dog from Biotech?
She's returned in Anomaly... and she's turned to the power of the void.
Awesome art here:
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I need to get this on my front door clearly. Laser-engraved RimWorld storytellers
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Honored to see RimWorld so appreciated by the Tea Lord!
He has a way of making the game sound oddly dignified.
Today I will be releasing my HUGE project!
Rimworld A Perfect Game! It is a very British video essay that will make you feel smart for enjoying this amazing game!
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We posted an artist role and got over 500 applications in a day. A lot of them are quite good.
I think it's hard getting game art work right now.
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This is dystopian.
The fact that a mob attacked someone does not in itself mean they did something wrong.
GDC has a panel dedicated to reeducating devs who've been cancelled. Tellingly, not one word of it even considers the possibility that any cancelled person has been targeted in error or the mob ever gets it wrong. NOT. ONE. WORD.
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With this non-insane policy I think we'll be able to move on together.
Even so, Unity has kickstarted massive interest in alternatives to Unity, and that won't end here. A lot of developers are going to be considering very carefully which partners they're willing to depend on.
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I just released RimWorld update 1.2.2753! It add new gear, new permits, and many refinements to the 1.2 build.
Steam announcement:
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Achievement unlocked: Interest from
@notch
, father of modern block-based creation games.
And I swear the game's not just about cannibals knawing on frozen fingers in an endless frozen hellscape! This is just one playstyle of many. You can raise bunnies in a gentle forest!
Rimworld let's plays might be the most engaged I've ever been in huskies getting caught on fire in due to bad wiring in a cannibal colony on a the permafrost of alien planet, like, ever.
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Take a look at RimWorld's storyteller concept sketches from back in 2013. Cassandra Classic looked like a teenager. Randy Random looked even more insane.
(Final versions added for comparison.)
Credit to Ricardo Tomé for the art.
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RimWorld Beta 18 - A World of Story is released! Swamps, combat log, mental inspirations, many unique quest items, tribal content, caves, ship escape sequence, and much more.
Video:
Blog:
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The most valuable learning experience in game design is to have a great idea, analyze it, know it'll work, implement it, and then watch it totally not work.
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In under four days over 1,000 mods are now confirmed working on RimWorld update 1.3! Hot damn.
Over 100 mods are already updated/confirmed compatible with 1.3! Running total here:
Fast-finger modders are awesome.
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RimWorld - Ideology has a Steam store page now! Go ahead and wishlist it if you like:
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@pcgamer
We were inclusive to the varied self-perspectives of our diverse players - and it's used as a point against the game.
The review gives no indication of where the quoted words came from, misleading readers into thinking that it was all written by some misguided game writer. /3
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RimWorld 1.3.3200 is up!
Mechs have a much better strategy mix, player defense tools are improved, and tons of other refinements.
Full changelog here:
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A18 still developing! Swamp biomes, caves, named world features (oceans, ranges, deserts, etc), new art description tales, new plants, &more
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We've built a feature that allows you to save and load ideoligions independently in RimWorld.
It's currently live in testing on Steam's 'unstable' beta branch.
Anyone who wants - give it a shot and let me know how it goes! Hoping to send this to everyone soon.
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I should really add dysentery to RimWorld so you can die of it when traveling by caravan.
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It seems like some people are getting the files from Steam and some are not. We are working on this and have contacted Steam's rep.
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