Early Access Roadmap

After gathering your initial feedback, I've decided to significantly speed up the introduction of new management features. These are the Management Foundations, Management Refinement, and Business Mode from this roadmap.

The first management update - version 0.1.1 - will be released at the end of next week (around September 29).

You can read more info about this decision in this article:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1223530/announcements/detail/3718340776821456456



Hello everyone!

We are almost there! Mall Craze is releasing into Early Access tomorrow! ⏰
But before I press the Release button, I still have one last thing to talk about - the Early Access Roadmap.

Without further ado - here it is, and I will talk about it in more detail below:



As you can see, I've divided the timeline into 4 stages. each having it's own objectives. There is no particular order for implementing things within a single stage, and the exact dates may slightly change during development.

September 2023 - December 2023



The main focus for the rest of 2023 is to continue laying down a solid foundations that the game can then build upon. The theme for the first couple of weeks (1 - 3) will be bug fixing, gathering feedback, and releasing some smaller content patches - things that I will do throughout the whole Early Access.

After this initial period, I will then start adding new things and features into the game.
For the Stage 1 it's a new shop type, fountains, escalators, and first management features.

January 2024 - May 2024



This is a continuation of the previous stage - more management features and new shop types.
Besides those, I will also start working on a completely new class of vendors - stalls.
At this point, the default map environment should see a nice progress over it's current state, and completely new maps will also be in the making.

June 2024 - December 2024



Once again, more of everything, but the main focus for this stage will be to yet again expand the array of shop classes - not to be confused with "shop types", which are different shops within a single class (e.g. Class - normal shops, stalls, restaurants, services; Types of normal shops - clothes, music, sports).

Restaurants (food court) and Services - those are the things that will be coming into the game at this stage.

2025 - ???



Starting with 2025, Stage 4 will be a time of 2 big additions - Movie Theater and Fitness Center. Personally, I'm really looking forward to working on these two!
Besides that, more services will be added into the game, and the maps should receive a new traffic update.



As you can see, the timeline currently doesn't have an end point for 1.0 Release.
At this point, I don't want to give a definitive date when Mall Craze will leave Early Access, because it's almost impossible to estimate exactly.

My main goal is to use the potential of Early Access to it's fullest, and together with you, create the best version of Mall Craze that I can!

Let's get into it! We're starting tomorrow!🎮

Until then - Thank you for your support, and take care!
- Milan, developer