telØS on X: "[1/15] Since Fable's return, Sand & Rust has seen an enormous amount of development. As of tonight, the game has seen thirteen major arcs, each worth several significant updates, and each adding new systems and content to bring the desert to life. A tour: 🧵" / X

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telØS
@AlkahestMu
[1/15] Since Fable's return, Sand & Rust has seen an enormous amount of development. As of tonight, the game has seen thirteen major arcs, each worth several significant updates, and each adding new systems and content to bring the desert to life. A tour: 🧵
telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jun 14
Over the handful of days I've worked with Claude Fable 5, one of my favorite projects is Sand and Rust: a post-apocalyptic open-world RPG where you play as a modular robot in a world of megastructures swallowed by sand. Fable puts ~full creative control to good use. Link below.
7:33 AM · Jul 6, 202614.8KViews
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[2/15] The foundation: before the arcs begin in earnest, a few features. First, the fallen can be recommissioned at the wells found at the center of Stills (villages). Second, a rework of the dialogue to be Morrowind-style topic-based -- ask anyone about anything.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[3/15] The Hollow Places: every megastructure now hosts an interior procedural dungeon keyed to its type; find sealed caches & the logs of its previous denizens inside. Also, descend deep to battle the Conceptory Mother, a powerful machine with the technology to revive the dead.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[4/15] The Roads: every Still thrives from trade with its neighbors; caravans walk between them along roads that cut through the canyons and dunes, giving rise to a living economy and escort contracts to keep it healthy. (Also, Animal Crossing-style speech, which I love.)
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[5/15] Stills that Live: settlements have size classes and districts, and grow or decay with trade health and the ever-present danger of raids. And the hearth: find a dead well in the desert, restore it, and watch a settlement grow around it over days.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[6/15] The Menagerie: general modularity. Every machine has a bodyplan via the frames system, adding a Cambrian explosion of post-apocalyptic robot bodies: centipedes, giants, and more, all mutable via part-swapping the same way you are.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[7/15] The Shape of the Land: terrain variety up the wazoo. Mesas, canyons, riverbeds, cliffs; ruined building cutaways choked with rebar; true interior verticality; and some helpful if minor visual things. (anti-aliasing update!)
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[8/15] The Embrace: Rust is no longer just a debuff. At high enough levels, it will speak to you and you can speak back; bloom at max corruption to gain the powers of the Choir and befriend the wandering machines, though you risk becoming a target of the salt-monks' hunters.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[9/15] The Legend: now the desert has memory -- your (mis)adventures will be recorded by those who witnessed it, and stories of you (and others) will spread via caravan. Some Stills may even give you a name you with an epithet coined from your actual deeds.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[10/15] The Stake: not only can you revive a Still; now you can claim it, too. Fund districts and watch them be built; invite wanderers to settle; raise defenses against the raiding machines of the Rust; and even name your home as it suits you.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[11/15] The Seasons: weather is now a system with four seasons: the Clear (trade flourishes), the Veil (sandstorms choke the roads), the Glass-Wind (with painful shard-storms), and The Long Cold (nights drain power, machines hunger). Plus, migrating machine-herds and star-falls.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[12/15] The March: the nests of the Rust can now organize their output into war fronts to destroy nearby Stills. Disrupt the nests to weaken their armies, or fund and assist the defense of a threatened Still to carve your war-stories into local legend.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[13/15] The Transmission: attune to the wells of distant Stills to fast-travel by transmitting yourself across them (at the risk of mounting data corruption); and seek out the scattered evidence of your former life, and your place in the Old World.
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[14/15] The Company: recruit your companions; kit them with parts you've scavenged to prepare them for battle; hear their relevant commentary on your adventures; earn their loyalty; and carve the stories of your band of wanderers into the legends of the desert. (For Brann.)
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telØS
@AlkahestMu
Jul 6
[15/15] And ~all of that in a week. Everything is still generated from a seed; the game is still tiny in filesize and vast in its world; but its world is far deeper than ever before. The desert calls you, wanderer. Play now at sandandrust.net.
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Maximac 🏴‍☠️
@maximaccapitall
Jul 6
holy gh

[1/15] Since Fable's return, Sand & Rust has seen an enormous amount of development. As of tonight, the game has seen thirteen major arcs, each worth several significant updates, and each adding new systems and content to bring the desert to life. A tour: 🧵

telØS

@AlkahestMu

Jun 14

Over the handful of days I've worked with Claude Fable 5, one of my favorite projects is Sand and Rust: a post-apocalyptic open-world RPG where you play as a modular robot in a world of megastructures swallowed by sand. Fable puts ~full creative control to good use. Link below.

7:33 AM · Jul 6, 202614.8KViews