i remember me and my brother convinced our dad to buy the prerelease of this game for us, but we didn't tell him it was in british pounds and he had to sit us down and explain how £15 was actually like $20
i remember it being fun but we pretty quickly lost interest
then i forgot about it for a few years until it popped back into my mind so i looked it up and it turned out the developer had VANISHED 😱

except that the youtube video i watched that claimed that was super wrong
because the developer wasn't gone
turns out if you just emailed him and asked how development was going he'd share his progress with you
and all the latest cube world development news was being logged in the best form of information archival to ever be created:

a discord server!

anyways i tuned in for a bit, thought "oh this all looks cool glad he's still working on the game" then tuned back out until the game suddenly got released and it sucked
i havent played the "final" version of the game but its still kinda sad
oh well at least veloren is a thing
and its open source, which means it has infinite possibilities for fun!