Get Hype!
Alright, so I demoed "don't starve together" and talked to one of the main developers so I have some knowledge to share with everyone about the build I played.
As far as release date, nothing new.
ROG will not be compatible with the first release of DST :(
The version I played only had access to wigfred, WX, and wilson.
The ghosts had custom sprites. WX, was a robot ghost.
When characters die the drop one (insert flesh type name I forgot here) so you can eat the people you kill. The flesh stuff that I forgot the name of currently has a monster meat sprite. I didn't get a chance to cook it, but raw takes a huge chunk of sanity. I'd like too say 40 sanity, but take that with a grain of salt. But cannibalism is a thing, awesome.
the other new item I saw was a heart that you start with I forgot the exact name of that too (sorry!). It was called "something" heart. What you do is when a character dies, you use the heart on their ghost and it brings them back to life. they keep the heart when you use it on them, you don't get it back. I think it goes into their inventory.
You can kill someone revive them with the heart and kill them again and pick the heart up and repeat that process for unlimited cannibalism meat.
You only remain as a ghost for a certain amount of time and then you're permadead. Not sure about the specifics about how much time and things. So there is still permadeath.
There is a don't starve together tournament on sunday about who can survive the longest that I will be participating in. I will have more specifics about the mechanics and any balance changes then. Ask any questions and I'll do my best to answer or i'll ask the developers.
Look for Part 2, sunday night.