If you’ve played the Nimian Legends games at any point over the past five years or so, then you may be happy to know that the maker of those, Robert Kabwe aka Protopop Games, has a new title in the works, and it looks like the best one to date. It’s called Wilderless and, like Nimian Legends, it’s designed to be a huge open world that you can virtually explore and get lost in, but with an even bigger scope than either of the previous games.
As you can read in our forums, Protopop is tackling Wilderless in a different way from the previous Nimian Legends games. It’s being completely rebuilt from scratch and also being built in phases, where the game will release with specific functionality and then get polished up through updates before releasing the next phase with new content and features. This means that initially Wilderless will be “a wilderness landscape photography sim" where your main goal is to run around the beautiful landscapes and take pictures, but will evolve from there with future phases.
This tactic will hopefully mitigate issues with software and hardware advancements that caused problems during the long development cycle of the previous games. Protopop has a lot of ideas of where the game can go from that initial phase, but is hoping that “this new approach will help me make the world I have been trying to make." Currently that plan includes ten different phases spread across a two year development cycle. Even...