One rabbit reported in the Daily Mail even thumped at a burglar, and possibly scared him off! Many rabbits will thump in the car and at the vets, especially if they don’t have their bonded partner with them to help them cope with the stress. O wners have reported them thumping at everything from the smell of peanut butter to strangers in the house. Rabbits can thump at anything that scares them. What sort of things cause a rabbit to thump? Some rabbits will make one thump, others will do several in a row. They then use one or both feet to hit the ground hard, just like ‘Thumper’ in Bambi. They tend to arch their backs a little and freeze, and will look very alert. Rabbits have a special posture that they use to create a thumping noise. It can be a warning to back off and not pick them up, or it may be a demand to cuddle. They’re using the thumps to communicate that they want you to stop doing something, or start doing something. Some rabbits will thump for reasons other than fear, including annoyance. This has the advantage that the noise will likely be easy to hear underground in their warrens, and the vibrations are likely to be felt, too. E xcept rabbits don’t tend to vocalise, and instead use the noise of their feet. In fact, it’s a bit like a dog’s bark, a meerkat’s warning screech or a parent’s worried yell. It’s probably a way of warning other rabbits that there’s something scary nearby.
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Meanwhile, the developer's full statement is worth reading over at Kotaku, in an article about some 'Nathan Grayson' fellow, whoever that is.Lots of things can cause a rabbit to ‘thump’, but it’s usually a response to a frightening situation. The Stomping Land isn't moving.Īlright, I'm reaching. Much like a T-Rex, videogame players' vision is based on movement. That's bad for a Kickstarter project which said that "updates to the project are planned on being released at least once per week", and it's bad for an Early Access release with the natural implication of a game to play and a visible development process. Whether that process is necessary or desirable, I don't know, but in either case it doesn't exactly matter as players are not receiving the experience they paid for. Taking the developer at his word, the game is not dead it's moving to a new engine and that's a long process. This seems like the context to understanding the current issues surrounding The Stomping Land. Development videos, blogs, concept art, community discussions, even the very act of buying things, can all be part of enjoying an experience. What makes things trickier is that a game in development can be worth following even if there's nothing yet available to play. The measuring stick seems to be, "is this worth joining in on right now?" The Forest, another island survival game, was released in the same week and was similarly feature-incomplete, but the experience had been crafted in such a way that although you might be done with it after two hours, those two hours were at least fun. The dinosaur AI was terrible and collision detection was imprecise, meaning there was little sense of threat from the environment the island setting was vast and player counts low meaning there was little multitplayer drama the structure of the game's challenge didn't support the long, pitch-black nights and certain mechanics, like bolas, were overpowered in ways that allowed one player to ruin the experience for another with trivial effort.īuying an Early Access game is always going to be a variable experience - sometimes it's going to be a game that's feature-complete, and sometimes it's going to be a roughshod prototype. I played The Stomping Land shortly after release and wasn't a fan of what I saw. The game's community is less than pleased. The only thing the developer has said publicly in over two months was to Kotaku earlier this week: that the game is switching to Unreal Engine 4 and that this has created more work. The initial release was less feature-complete than players hoped, updates were slower than initially promised, and now communication has all but stopped. The Stomping Land is a survival multiplayer game which rode dinosaurs and interesting hunting mechanics to both Kickstarter success and then initially high sales on Steam Early Access a year later.īut all is not happy in Jurassic Park. There are dozens of healthy and happy alpha funding projects and Early Access games under way, but when the model starts to go wrong, it seems like its going to go wrong in the noisiest, most painful way possible.
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