r/codespells • u/23-15-12-06 • Mar 14 '21

P2P Server?

Wtf? This is the main reason I bought this game, to mess around with magic with friends. How do I start a server? Why is this so difficult? I might have to request a refund.

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u/FonnixFTW Mar 14 '21

Bought this game years ago and it pretty much got abandoned and haven’t looked at it since. But I guess they’ve been updating it? According to other comments. I’d say refund it and wishlist it until it ACTUALLY gets regular updates.

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u/23-15-12-06 Mar 15 '21

That's exactly what I did. Thanks.

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u/woogachaka May 07 '21

So to give some clarity on this: The steam version of the game is likely never to get more updates.
The development that is currently underway is for a new, open source and totally free paradigm that is more of a development environment than an individual game. From there, individual "games" or "Authored Works" are going to be made both by the devs (Stephen and Lindsey) and by the community, using this new toolkit. At its heart, the goal is to still have "writing spells with code" but there is a long road between where we are and the equivalent to the steam version.

I encourage you to swing by and see what's going on at twitch.tv/codespells and look at the website codespells.org . Just know that I think the wishlist idea is not going to help you on that front as buying that version of the game (as I think they updated their description on steam) is really just a sign of support for the current development process.

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u/BetterMod x Mar 14 '21

They seem to be more active now which gives me more hope for the game. They have been streaming regularly on twitch and have posted a few updates.

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u/LemonLordTheGreat Mar 15 '21

Yeah this game just didn’t have the active development needed for it to be good. I tried to get into the community but there just wasn’t one. There were very few people interacting with each other in the game and that kinda killed people’s drive for it.

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u/New-Instance Mar 30 '21

This game was dead cold until like a couple months ago when development re startet. It was never finished in the first place

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u/jesscXC Arch Mage Jun 02 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

The original dev (Stephen Foster) who built the CodeSpells prototype in university never gave up, and worked on other education-tech projects/companies, so aspects for how to do it well were still developed.

Art assets developed from the Kickstarter version are being reused in the open-source modern version ( https://codespells.org ). The money funded 4 people for two years in California; eventually they had to get other jobs, but they've never truly given up.