Review Fix Exclusive: Inside ‘Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked’

September 27, 2016 Patrick Hickey Jr. Video Games 0

Review Fix chats with Klei Entertainment Community Manager Corey Rollins who discusses the development process behind the recently released “Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked.”

Review Fix: How has the “Don’t Starve” community responded to this game in its development process?

Corey Rollins: Excellent! This is actually out 4th successful early-access release. Don’t Starve really wouldn’t be what it is today without our incredible community and their participation in our early-access development.

Review Fix: What does it add to the game’s gameplay formula?

Rollins: The biggest surface level change is obviously BOATS! Being able to travel the waters in Don’t Starve really ads a new level of gameplay to exploration. Various boat styles can be crafted and decked out with different features and useful accessories. You’ll also have to manage your boats durability and general health. Along with a ton of new creature types and biomes, the water itself is alive with life, treasures and dangers. Also, in Shipwrecked you have the ability to be poisoned by various things, so you’ll need to watch out for that!

Review Fix: What else is new or different about it?

Rollins: This is going to seem like a cop out, but all of the new things in Shipwrecked can be found on the player made WIKI. HOWEVER… I highly recommend not looking at it if you’re a player and exploring the game. The newest expansion is absolutely huge compared to Reign of Giants, and exploration / adventure is the best part of Don’t Starve. If you’re okay with spoilers the wiki will shed some light on the absolutely massive amount of content, new playable characters, items, tools, recipes, creatures and surprises added to Don’t Starve through Shipwrecked.

Review Fix: What was it like to work With CAPY?

Rollins: Amazing! It was really fun working side by side with them and a really positive experience. If anyone is interested in getting the full story, we actually just did a twitch stream with them that you can find here where we talk about the whole process and what it was like working with each other via slack and over different time zones! Surprisingly hassle free!

https://www.twitch.tv/kleientertainment/v/57853828

Review Fix: What’s next?

Rollins: In terms of Don’t Starve, Don’t Starve Together (the multiplayer version of Don’t Starve) is the next game that will leave Early-Access. Once that leaves Early-Access we will continue adding new content and updates to it. We have quite a bit planned for that. We’re also working on a PS4 version of that for this year too!

In terms of non-Don’t Starve “what’s next” we’re working on a few things that we hope to announce this year, but nothing to confirm just yet.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14267 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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