Recently, the developer of Stardew Valley and Haunted Chocolatier talked about his views on the two games and his next plans in an interview.
Although Stardew Valley has a large number of loyal fans, there are still more people who are eager to know some information about the new game.
The developer said that he spent a lot of time on creating Stardew Valley Version 1.6 last year, and now he has begun to devote himself to the production of Haunted Chocolatier. He said that the content he wants to explore in this game has changed as the game has continued to develop over the past few years.
What Stardew Valley Discusses?
Stardew Valley is a solid business simulation game that mainly explores the fundamentals of current human survival and reproduction. It tells the story of everything that grows on the land, and it is also something that all humans pay close attention to.
In this game, you will find many similarities with reality. You can get the fish you want by fishing, the grain you want by farming, and many Stardew Valley Items you can get through labor.
What Haunted Chocolatier Explores?
The developer of the game says that he has been focusing on the topic of intuition recently. What he wants to explore in this new game is the direction of human development in the future. How should humans develop after achieving survival?
He wants to push humans further in the game, into the realm of fantasy and creativity. It can even be said that another area of human experience, beyond the most basic things.
People’s left brain is responsible for mechanical engineering, and they use the left brain more when playing games. Most games think: input X components, you will get Y results. Just like in Stardew Valley, we can make a torch with a piece of wood and two pieces of sap.
In the new game, he wants to explore how to make these processes less specific. If you use intuition to make chocolate, will it become more creative and less mechanical?
He said that he wants to give players more design space to play by themselves and play out those mysterious and wonderful ideas.
His current thinking about intuition and psychic is in line with the concept determined at the beginning of the game. He is still thinking about what Haunted means in Haunted Chocolatier. In real life, we make ordinary chocolate or hazelnut chocolate.
In this game, he wants to stimulate the imagination of players to the maximum extent. Players may make ghost chocolate or paranormal chocolate, etc.
From a macro perspective, the two games also have many similarities. They are both business simulation games, which is exactly the type he likes.
But the difference is that Stardew Valley is a colorful, sunny, vibrant and lush world. Haunted Chocolatier may be a dark, mysterious, weird and interesting world.
Next Plan
The developer added that Haunted Chocolatier still has a long way to go and it will take some time before the production is completed. Although fans are still concerned about the wonderful content of Stardew Valley, he must put aside the fact that he has something to focus on completing this new game.
He even joked that sometimes he wants to work in a forest cabin without Internet. He promised that he should not make any updates on other games until this game is completed.
