Season 4: Chapter 86. Paprika vs Almond (2)
Even for a sandbox game as endlessly moddable as Survival Craft, a system like the one in Cheese Village couldn’t be built overnight.
“Gasp! One million won! Thank y-Aaaaagh!”
[Cheez_Miho has ascended.]
[BlackTea: Damn, so jealous lol]
[Greentea: Ascended LOL]
[Chouxcream: She really ascended hahaha]
Everything ran smoothly from donation-triggered events to land plots sold off for farming. It all felt like part of the base game.
“How much is this plot? Can we farm on it?”
“Yes, this one is good for crops...”
None of these features actually existed in the original Survival Craft. The base game was just about planting crops, gathering materials, building a house, and surviving nighttime monsters. It had no real estate market, item economy, pricing system, and certainly no donation mechanics.
All of this had been crafted by the server makers. Cheese Village itself was a commissioned build custom-made by professionals. A project of this scale took around two weeks with a full dev team and a serious chunk of cash.
Where did all of that money come from? That big question continued to weigh on the minds of the Cheese execs.