{"id":46801,"date":"2021-10-21T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=9ecdeaac5730a5640a69cde518e65bd8"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T21:17:45","slug":"stardew-valleys-creator-announces-pixel-art-followup-haunted-chocolatier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=46801","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley\u2019s creator announces pixel-art followup Haunted Chocolatier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1806545\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oooh.  \nI have an unspeakable number of hours in Stardew Valley, and (for better or worse) this look like the same game with a slightly different premise.<\/div><div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n      <ul><li>\n        <div>  \n        <div><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-10179-980x551.png\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n        <p>\n          Emphasis on \"in development.\" There's no release date for this <em>Stardew Valley<\/em> successor just yet.                      [credit:\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedApe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ConcernedApe LLC<\/a>\n                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/li>\n      <\/ul><p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2016\/03\/stardew-valley-review-a-pastoral-contemporary-escape\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Stardew Valley<\/em><\/a> creator&nbsp;Eric Barone dropped a two-minute teaser video for an entirely new game pretty much out of nowhere. The new game, titled <em>Haunted Chocolatier<\/em>, looks a lot like <em>Stardew Valley<\/em>, which means it's a refreshingly lovely homage to all things SNES and Squaresoft.<\/p>\n<p>As Barone's first new video game since <em>SV<\/em>'s&nbsp;2016 launch, <em>Haunted Chocolatier<\/em> currently doesn't have a release date estimate of any kind. To avoid being \"tied down to any particular concept of what the game is\" before its eventual launch, Barone has not yet finalized <em>Haunted Chocolatier<\/em>'s gameplay systems, either. <em>HC<\/em>'s reveal came alongside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauntedchocolatier.net\/faq\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lengthy FAQ<\/a>, whose site has been pounded by fans' immediate interest in the new game, and it clarifies that the game revolves around \"a chocolatier living in a haunted castle\" who must \"gather rare ingredients, make delicious chocolates, and sell them in a chocolate shop.\"<\/p>\n      <ul><li>\n        <div>  \n        <div><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-10153-980x551.png\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n        <p>\n          Sweet plant-based nectar.                      [credit:\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedApe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ConcernedApe LLC<\/a>\n                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/li>\n      <\/ul><p>If that sounds pedestrian to you, you clearly haven't <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2019\/12\/stardew-valley-my-familys-2019-game-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gotten sucked into the addictive <em>Harvest Moon<\/em> homage that is <em>Stardew Valley<\/em><\/a>, which has sold millions of copies in its six years on PC and most console families. (There's also <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2021\/05\/stardew-valley-the-board-game-a-loving-production-but-a-mixed-review-from-grandpa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a board game version<\/a>.) Like that game, Barone suggests that <em>HC<\/em> will be an entirely self-made project (programming, art, music, and more), with outside help only coming once the game is finalized and needs help with language translations and ports to other platforms. (As of press time, Barone is only committing to a launch on PC, with other platform announcements to come later.)<\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1806545#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 2 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1806545&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p><div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=UTnBlP__zys:boncHJzC6vk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=UTnBlP__zys:boncHJzC6vk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=UTnBlP__zys:boncHJzC6vk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=UTnBlP__zys:boncHJzC6vk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=UTnBlP__zys:boncHJzC6vk:qj6IDK7rITs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=UTnBlP__zys:boncHJzC6vk:yIl2AUoC8zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emphasis on &#8220;in development.&#8221; There&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=46801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}