“almost everything in Haunted Chocolatier, including the combat, is completely coded (and drawn) from scratch.”
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Eric Barone
Eric Lorenz Barone, known professionally as ConcernedApe, is an American video game developer, designer, and composer.
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business · American video game designer (born 1987) · video game developer · composer · musician · solo game developer · entrepreneur · also Eric Barone, Concerned Ape, Barone
Born 3 December 1987 · Q44914560
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2024· 2 entries
Which includes more than 50 recipes adapted from the in-game recipes featured in Stardew Valley
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Barone announced that he played in a Seattle-based steelpan band
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2022· 1 entry
Barone collaborated on an animated music video with indie pop band Alvvays for the band's song "Many Mirrors"
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2020· 1 entry
With the orchestral album Symphonic Tale: The Place I Truly Belong (Music from Stardew Valley), directed by Kentaro Sato and performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, which includes 15 tracks from the game's original
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2019· 2 entries
And has continued to support the game while developing his next title, Haunted Chocolatier, a shop-management game announced in 2021
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GamesRadar+ included Stardew Valley among the games that defined the 2010s, praising its ability to draw players in over hundreds of hours
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2017· 1 entry
Barone was named by Forbes magazine in its list "30 Under 30: Games" for his work on Stardew Valley
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2016· 1 entry
Barone released Stardew Valley: Original Soundtrack, which contains the game's official soundtrack
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2014· 1 entry
Barone took a month-long break during the development of Stardew Valley
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2011· 1 entry
Created a comic book series called Wumbus World
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2008· 1 entry
Barone released his first game, known as 17CF Quest, which was also a promotion for the music group 17 Colorful Feathers; the game's main character is found as a piece of furniture in Stardew Valley
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1987· 2 entries
Born 1987-12-03.
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In Los Angeles, California, and spent his childhood in Auburn, Washington, a suburb of the Seattle metropolitan area
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