Stardew Valley creator breaks silence to shoot down myths about Haunted Chocolatier, including that 2030 release rumour

"I’m alive, the crippled is inactive successful development, and it volition travel retired erstwhile it’s ready"

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has emerged from the elephantine Easter ovum successful which helium makes games to “debunk a fewer myths and mendacious assumptions” astir Haunted Chocolatier, his forthcoming sticky-fingered beingness sim. The bully quality is that he’s been “very productive” lately, though helium admits that helium “shouldn’t person announced the crippled truthful early”, which suggests we’ve a ways to spell yet earlier the archetypal due Haunted Chocolatier trailer oregon info blowout.

Myth and/or mendacious presumption fig 1 is that Barone volition yet wantonness Haunted Chocolatier and crook the crippled into a chunky update for Stardew Valley - overmuch similar a patisserie cook tipping the scorched remains of a failed crème brûlée each implicit an award-winning acheronian wood gateau.

“First, I americium not going to wantonness Haunted Chocolatier,” Barone retorts successful a caller blog post. “But adjacent if I did, I americium not going to adhd it to Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley and Haunted Chocolatier are abstracted games. It doesn’t adjacent marque consciousness from a method perspective, arsenic Haunted Chocolatier is written from scratch, it’s not the aforesaid ‘engine’ arsenic Stardew Valley. You can’t conscionable transcript and paste Haunted Chocolatier into Stardew Valley.”

(Full clarification successful the interests of nationalist wellness and culinary decency: you can’t reuse spoiled crème brûlée arsenic a acheronian wood gateau topping either. You volition lone injure your digestive strategy and bring shame upon your family.)

The 2nd story Barone wishes to rebut is that Stardew Valley updates are sneaky investigating grounds for Haunted Chocolatier features. “When moving connected Stardew Valley, I’m not reasoning astir Haunted Chocolatier, and vice versa,” helium clarifies. “I wouldn’t ‘test thing out’ successful Stardew Valley due to the fact that that would beryllium unfair to Stardew Valley, and besides I don’t privation to spoil ideas for Haunted Chocolatier by adding them archetypal to Stardew Valley. Also, Stardew Valley is simply a antithetic game, truthful you can’t truly ‘test something’ for Haunted Chocolatier successful it successful an close way.”

Myth No. 3 is that Barone is making different Stardew Valley update due to the fact that he’s “burnt retired connected Haunted Chocolatier”. Nay, sirrah, you bash but jest! Rest assured that Barone is making different Stardew Valley update simply due to the fact that “it’s a precise fashionable crippled with a large, ever-growing playerbase, and I inactive person further ideas for however to amended it.”

Also, helium didn’t accidental it’s not coming retired until 2030, immoderate you whitethorn person work connected immoderate different lousy videogame website operated by FOOLS. “I was asked successful 2025 if it would travel retired wrong the adjacent 5 years, and I said ‘I anticipation so’,” Barone writes successful closing. “This is precise antithetic than saying ‘it’s coming retired successful 2030’. The bottommost enactment is, I don’t privation to springiness a merchandise date. The crippled volition travel retired erstwhile it’s done.”

I anticipation you’ve each learned a invaluable acquisition present astir rumour and speculation. Remember that videogames, overmuch similar crème brûlées, payment from extended clip successful the oven and, situation I say, a grade of affectional detachment. I’m trying to fig retired the videogame equivalent for blowtorching the crust. Day-one hotfixing, I guess?