Name: How Stardew Valley Was Made by Only One Person
Uploaded: 2021-02-22T10:51:19.000Z
Duration: 21 min 9 s
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Most games are made by development studios that have multiple people working on the same

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game and triple-A titles can even go into hundreds of developers, while small indie

teams consist of at least two developers more often than not.

However, it's very rare to encounter a bigger sized game where every single part is made

This is exactly the case with Stardew Valley though since all the art, music, sound effects,

dialogue and programming were done by Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe.

In 2011 Eric graduated from the University of Washington Tacoma with a computer-science

degree so afterwards he applied at a few places, did some interviews, but they never offered

At that point he didn't really know what to do next.

Eric has always been into video games, drawing doodles, making music, and writing, but he

hadn't really considered combining all his hobbies to become an actual game developer.

Now that he was looking for a job he decided to give it a shot and develop his first game.

Eric figured he could get better at programming this way and improve his chances at scoring

Growing up he was encouraged by his father to play around with computers since his father

His mom on the other hand was more artistic and this gave Eric an insight into both worlds

In high school Eric kept himself busy playing guitar and even joined a couple of bands,

After school, he would work at a pretzel place where he would stand at a kiosk and draw little

“I guess it's all just a lifetime of creating stuff.

I've always just enjoyed making things, and in the process of doing that I learned a lot

He's a huge fan of the farm simulation RPG series Harvest Moon so when Eric wanted to

make a quick little game to get familiar with game development, he decided to create a Harvest

“I liked that you could have relationships with the townsfolk and even get married and

That was something you couldn't do in most games I played as a kid and it made the experience

That you were living in a world that felt alive, time moved forward with or without

According to Eric however, the series became progressively worse after Back To Nature so

he frequently searched for a fan-made or indie Harvest Moon clone, but he never found anything

that satisfied him, which compelled Eric to try making one himself.

Initially he was planning on releasing his fan-made project, back when it was still called

Sprout Valley, on Xbox Live Indie Games since anyone was able to publish a game on that

Eric figured he would work on the project for a few months, release it and move on.

Perhaps a few Harvest Moon fans would enjoy it and the game would look nice on his resume

However, once he started working on the game and his development skills improved, Eric

He believed it could become a legitimate game and start his career as a real indie developer.

Eric didn't have a deliberate plan when working on Stardew Valley and would just follow

his intuition when it came to expanding the game.

He started with creating the player avatar and next he added a simple area that would

After that, Eric added the basic farming mechanics.

Before he would add things like crops and minerals, he would do proper research on them

to accurately match their behaviors and scarcities in the game.

He applied this technique to the rest of the game: work on one part until it was about

80% done before he would add depth to it and move on to the next part.

In September 2012 Eric, now 24 of age, publicly announced the game on Steam Greenlight to

see if people would be interested in the concept behind Stardew Valley.

The announcement was accompanied with the first official trailer.

Eric had also set up a website to keep people updated on Stardew Valley's progression.

As mentioned before, he wanted to develop a Harvest Moon homage at first, but since

he decided to expand the scope of the project, Eric saw an opportunity to improve on one

"The gameplay in Harvest Moon was usually fun, but I felt like no title in the series

ever brought it all together in a perfect way.

My idea with Stardew Valley was to address the problems I had with Harvest Moon, as well

as create more 'purpose' with tried-and-true gameplay elements such as crafting and quests."

In February 2013, a couple of months after the Steam Greenlight announcement, it was

revealed that Stardew Valley would be published by Chucklefish, a development studio and publisher

Eric said that the offer came at just the right time, since he didn't want to put

“It seemed like nearly every indie game was doing Early Access at the time.

I wanted my game to stand out from the crowd, and I knew that many people were growing tired

Furthermore, I felt that Early Access was better suited to very open-ended sandbox games,

but was not ideal for a game like Stardew Valley.”

The team at Chucklefish helped Eric with creating a brand new website, including a new, better

In May 2013 Eric announced that Stardew Valley had been greenlit so now with the help from

a publisher and Steam's approval, nothing was holding Eric back from releasing his passion

Yet, it would take an additional three years before Stardew Valley would be released on

Eric initially estimated that the game would be done somewhere before 2014, but in November

2013 he created a blogpost to let people know that he probably wasn't going to hit that

He explained that although the game was “mostly done”, there was still a lot that had to

be finished before he was comfortable releasing Stardew Valley.

He would rather focus on developing a polished feature rich game than a rushed quick release.

The following years Eric would frequently blog about Stardew Valley's progression,

which kept people's interest in the game and also allowed fans to provide feedback.

While developing Stardew Valley was definitely Eric's main focus, he still needed a way

Therefore, he worked part-time as an usher at Seattle's Paramount Theatre.

Fortunately, he was able to live together with his girlfriend Amber, who was a plant

A perfect situation for someone who's developing a farming simulator.

During its entire development, the game went through quite a lot of changes.

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