Early Access Release And The Near Future
Hello everyone!
Yesterday, Mall Craze released into Early Access, and I would like to address your initial feedback.
As a first thing, I would like to thank everyone who gave any kind of feedback, new ideas, and observations here on Steam (forum and reviews), Discord, or email. I'm reading all of it, and I've already reevaluated a couple of things.
Your biggest concern so far has been the Management side of the game, or lack thereof.
The game has released as a creative sandbox game. Looking at things now, I should've used a more straightforward name, and call Mall Craze a mall builder game instead, which I will do from now on, until the game has seen some management updates. I will also reflect this change in various places throughout the Steam Page.
[h2]Management Updates[/h2]
Speaking of management updates, this is the main topic that I want to talk about today.
Looking at the original Early Access Roadmap that I released a couple of days ago, you can see that I had Management Foundations planned for Stage 1, Management Refinement planned for Stage 2, and a whole new game mode - Business Mode planned for Stage 3.
After your feedback and inputs, I've decided to put a much bigger emphasis and focus on these things.
Today, I've already started to work on the foundations of management features. I'm also moving Management Refinement into Stage 1 and Business Mode into Stage 2.
[h3]Management Foundations & Management Refinement[/h3]
These terms by themselves are pretty vague, so let's define them better here.
By Management Foundations, I mean the first iteration of particular features, namely:
These things and a couple more will serve as a baseline for future updates.
Management Refinement will then add new features, and build upon the existing ones.
By the time the game is in version 0.2.0, it will be in a state as it probably should've released into Early Access in the first place. Between now and 0.2.0, I will release smaller updates, each introducing a small portion of the features I mentioned above.
The first update with a couple new management features - 0.1.1 - will release at the end of next week.
In the meantime, Thank you very much for your support, and take care!
- Milan, developer
PS: Reporting Game Crashes
If you experience game crash, sending the crash file would help tremendously with fixing those issues.
Link to crash reporting guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1223530/discussions/0/5904838286204458210/
Yesterday, Mall Craze released into Early Access, and I would like to address your initial feedback.
As a first thing, I would like to thank everyone who gave any kind of feedback, new ideas, and observations here on Steam (forum and reviews), Discord, or email. I'm reading all of it, and I've already reevaluated a couple of things.
Your biggest concern so far has been the Management side of the game, or lack thereof.
The game has released as a creative sandbox game. Looking at things now, I should've used a more straightforward name, and call Mall Craze a mall builder game instead, which I will do from now on, until the game has seen some management updates. I will also reflect this change in various places throughout the Steam Page.
[h2]Management Updates[/h2]
Speaking of management updates, this is the main topic that I want to talk about today.
Looking at the original Early Access Roadmap that I released a couple of days ago, you can see that I had Management Foundations planned for Stage 1, Management Refinement planned for Stage 2, and a whole new game mode - Business Mode planned for Stage 3.
After your feedback and inputs, I've decided to put a much bigger emphasis and focus on these things.
Today, I've already started to work on the foundations of management features. I'm also moving Management Refinement into Stage 1 and Business Mode into Stage 2.
[h3]Management Foundations & Management Refinement[/h3]
These terms by themselves are pretty vague, so let's define them better here.
By Management Foundations, I mean the first iteration of particular features, namely:
- hiring staff
- basic economy
- sales reports for products, shops and mall as a whole
- customers actually arriving and leaving on their own
These things and a couple more will serve as a baseline for future updates.
Management Refinement will then add new features, and build upon the existing ones.
By the time the game is in version 0.2.0, it will be in a state as it probably should've released into Early Access in the first place. Between now and 0.2.0, I will release smaller updates, each introducing a small portion of the features I mentioned above.
The first update with a couple new management features - 0.1.1 - will release at the end of next week.
In the meantime, Thank you very much for your support, and take care!
- Milan, developer
PS: Reporting Game Crashes
If you experience game crash, sending the crash file would help tremendously with fixing those issues.
Link to crash reporting guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1223530/discussions/0/5904838286204458210/