A real race against time… This creator had 6 months to create the masterpiece that changed his life!

Game News A real race against time… This creator had 6 months to create the masterpiece that changed his life!

8 years later, the famous life simulation title Stardew Valley continues to delight and attract its fan base. Every day, tens of thousands of players flock to Steam to play it. Rated JV 18/20, this classic comes from an average young student who worked in a mall to earn a living. Since he didn’t have a specific goal at the time, he came up with the idea of ​​creating a video game that he would focus 100% on while his lover supported him financially. Here is the story of its creation!

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Stardew Valley is the work of one man, Eric Barone, known by the pseudonym ConcernedApe. Before developing this game, Eric Barone was a recent computer science graduate from the University of Washington Tacoma, jobless and with few career prospects. He was passionate about video games and dreamed of creating his own, but he never completed any of his projects. The idea for Stardew Valley came to Eric while he was playing Harvest Moon, a farming simulation game that he really liked but noticed some aspects that could be improved. He t hen decided to start developing a video game that would improve all of that while adding his own ideas and improvements. This is how the Stardew Valley project was born. In addition, he faced a huge challenge: to develop this game in just six months.

He knew he was struggling to complete his projects and thought a strict deadline would help him focus on this endeavor and complete it. However, he didn’t expect his game to reach new heights…

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