Certainly I absorb tons of feedback. I watch hours and hours of gameplay videos and streams, read thousands of words of suggestions and reviews and play stories. I try to just gorge myself on it to have a rich set of reference points to draw from. Because a designer has to know how people are responding to know what…

Seems like a reasonable policy. Of course our earlier playerbase had their reviews taken off the score, which moved it down by 1-2% since the early players were the biggest fans (naturally). That was a bit sad. But the score is still good; I see no issue with it. I’m hoping that as we solve issues the score will…

Factorio is extremely different (and good). In it you don’t control characters, but rather focus on arranging mechanistic pieces of a factory. I wouldn’t even call it the same genre.

I was just a lowly systems designer on a big team, so I really had no influence over the overall game.

I wanted a name that expressed the space western concept of the game.

Thanks Jason :)