Stardew Valley Creator Is Focused On Finishing His Next Game

Last year, Stardew Valley received a monolithic escaped update due to the fact that its creator, Eric Barone, didn’t privation to halt improving the beloved cozy farming crippled adjacent 8 years aft it had launched. But now, helium sounds committed to moving connected from Stardew Valley for a fewer years portion helium finishes up his antecedently announced adjacent game, Haunted Chocolatier.

In a caller interrogation with PC Gamer, Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone (known online arsenic ConcernedApe) explained that helium truly does “love” his deed indie crippled and wants each of its fans to “have a large experience.” So he’s ever “concerned” astir Stardew Valley and wants to marque definite “it’s doing well.” However, helium concedes that this has pulled him distant from Haunted Chocolatier, a crippled helium started improvement connected successful 2020 and announced formally successful October 2021.

“I deliberation astatine immoderate constituent I’m going to person to wholly chopped disconnected everything else,” Barone told PC Gamer. “Honestly, I’ve thought about, possibly I should conscionable spell into a compartment successful the woods and wholly get disconnected the internet, and conscionable say, ‘Okay guys, I’ll spot you successful 2 years. You won’t perceive from maine astatine each and I’m going to decorativeness this game.’”

And portion helium mightiness not really spell unrecorded successful a compartment successful the woods for a fewer years, helium did marque it wide that Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update is “pretty settled astatine this point” and astir bugs person been squashed oregon fixed.

“I’m committed to not moving connected Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier…I deliberation it’s successful a bully place. I consciousness precise coagulated astir it,” said Barone. “I deliberation if anyone picks up Stardew Valley for the archetypal clip successful 2025, I’m precise arrogant of it, and I deliberation they’ll person amusive with it if they similar this benignant of game.”

As for Haunted Chocolatier, Barone says that aft moving connected the crippled connected and disconnected for astir 5 years, he’s had to spell backmost and wholly “redo” parts of it.

“And it’s not it’s not similar it’s adjacent bad, it’s just—part of the occupation of being, similar particularly a solo dev, is it takes truthful agelong to marque a game. I’m virtually a antithetic idiosyncratic successful 4 years, truthful it’s similar my full feelings astir everything person changed—my aesthetic sensibilities person evolved,” said Barone.

While radical hold for Haunted Chocolatier, they tin play Stardew Valley on fundamentally each level nether the sun, including consoles, mobile devices, and PC.

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