State of the Game and the Road Ahead
Greetings Riders,
In this post i will try to briefly share my thoughts about the current state of the game, as well as what's coming next.
THE RELEASE
The release of the game was fantastic. As a first time developer i couldn't imagine how awesome it would feel to share my work with the players and i can easily say that the results exceeded my expectations.
The steam store page got a ton of visibility and the game a bunch of brave riders ready to march for the sake of the Outpost! And i couldn't be more glad about this.
THE BUGS
Being honest, the game came with some nasty bugs for you. The reasons behind this are mainly two:
1) Me thinking that the game was in a stable, ready for release state.
2) Lack of thorough testing by many people before the release.
In the past few days i did my best to quickly patch all the bugs that were causing crashes or the runs to end in awkward ways. And i will continue to do so till the game is stable for everyone.
I am fully committed to this and confident that it won't take long.
THE DIFFICULTY
Now that's a weird one! I know that the combination of the game's mechanics require from the player quick hands and quick decision making, sometimes resulting in overwhelming situations.
I have seen your struggles and did some changes to make things a bit easier.
From the other hand i 've had many people telling me that they beat Normal mode in their FIRST RUN!
This is very confusing to me! Maybe this is just the result of very bad balancing or maybe the required multi-tasking skills make the game inherently easier for some of you.
Either way I will keep on reading your feedback and act along.
THE FUTURE
For now my main focus will be on reworking things, optimization and fixing what needs to be fixed.
After the game reaches a stable state i will start implementing new features. Some of these could be:
- Controller/Steam Deck support
- Dps tracking for each run
- Higher maximum meta upgrades
- QoL improvements
- New turtle/weapons
- New talents
- New endless mode without the resource gathering, so you have the chance to play the game more chill
I can't promise that i will manage to add all these in the future. But keep giving me ideas and i will do my best to improve the game in ways that i can.
That's all for now! Once again thanks for the support and keep on riding!
Solenya
In this post i will try to briefly share my thoughts about the current state of the game, as well as what's coming next.
THE RELEASE
The release of the game was fantastic. As a first time developer i couldn't imagine how awesome it would feel to share my work with the players and i can easily say that the results exceeded my expectations.
The steam store page got a ton of visibility and the game a bunch of brave riders ready to march for the sake of the Outpost! And i couldn't be more glad about this.
THE BUGS
Being honest, the game came with some nasty bugs for you. The reasons behind this are mainly two:
1) Me thinking that the game was in a stable, ready for release state.
2) Lack of thorough testing by many people before the release.
In the past few days i did my best to quickly patch all the bugs that were causing crashes or the runs to end in awkward ways. And i will continue to do so till the game is stable for everyone.
I am fully committed to this and confident that it won't take long.
THE DIFFICULTY
Now that's a weird one! I know that the combination of the game's mechanics require from the player quick hands and quick decision making, sometimes resulting in overwhelming situations.
I have seen your struggles and did some changes to make things a bit easier.
From the other hand i 've had many people telling me that they beat Normal mode in their FIRST RUN!
This is very confusing to me! Maybe this is just the result of very bad balancing or maybe the required multi-tasking skills make the game inherently easier for some of you.
Either way I will keep on reading your feedback and act along.
THE FUTURE
For now my main focus will be on reworking things, optimization and fixing what needs to be fixed.
After the game reaches a stable state i will start implementing new features. Some of these could be:
- Controller/Steam Deck support
- Dps tracking for each run
- Higher maximum meta upgrades
- QoL improvements
- New turtle/weapons
- New talents
- New endless mode without the resource gathering, so you have the chance to play the game more chill
I can't promise that i will manage to add all these in the future. But keep giving me ideas and i will do my best to improve the game in ways that i can.
That's all for now! Once again thanks for the support and keep on riding!
Solenya