Roadmap: How to Read Our Build Numbers
First off, I want to say a huge thanks to this amazing community for supporting us in making Archmage Rises as best as it could possibly be! All of your feedback, bug reporting, suggestions, etc has been super instrumental in helping us tune the game, fix bugs, and create a gameplay experience that we all want to play, so lots of gratitude from all of us on the dev team to all of you!
As we work hard toward our next big update (The Mage Tower), I wanted to share with you players, both new and returning, how to read our build numbers and use them to follow along with our development roadmap.
As you may have noticed, our build numbers come in the following format: 0.1.3
In the example above, here's what those numbers mean...
0 - This indicates our "stage" number. 0 means that we are still in Early Access. When this number reaches 1, we are considered released and feature complete. That doesn't mean we're done updating the game, but does mean that all of the core features of the game are now available.
1 - This is our major update number that corresponds to our major updates listed on our roadmap (which you can see below)
3 - This is our regular "in-between" updates, which we usually release on a weekly basis. These are mostly focused on bug fixes, optimizations and in some cases new content.
You might also see a letter at the end, which usually indicates a hotfix to quickly patch up a crucial bug that may have been introduced in the latest release. Hopefully these are few and far between ːsteamhappyː
So that means that when you see these release numbers, you can quickly get a sense of where we are on the roadmap:
0.0.X - Initial Early Access Launch
0.1.X - Update 1: Townsfolk Update
0.2.X - Update 2: The Mage Tower
0.3.X - Update 3: Exploration
0.4.X - Update 4: Crime & Punishment
etc.
I hope you find this info useful, and stay tuned for another weekly patch update that should be going out later today!
Phil
PS: Here's the roadmap that I mentioned above (in case you haven't seen it or wanted a reminder):
As we work hard toward our next big update (The Mage Tower), I wanted to share with you players, both new and returning, how to read our build numbers and use them to follow along with our development roadmap.
As you may have noticed, our build numbers come in the following format: 0.1.3
In the example above, here's what those numbers mean...
0 - This indicates our "stage" number. 0 means that we are still in Early Access. When this number reaches 1, we are considered released and feature complete. That doesn't mean we're done updating the game, but does mean that all of the core features of the game are now available.
1 - This is our major update number that corresponds to our major updates listed on our roadmap (which you can see below)
3 - This is our regular "in-between" updates, which we usually release on a weekly basis. These are mostly focused on bug fixes, optimizations and in some cases new content.
You might also see a letter at the end, which usually indicates a hotfix to quickly patch up a crucial bug that may have been introduced in the latest release. Hopefully these are few and far between ːsteamhappyː
So that means that when you see these release numbers, you can quickly get a sense of where we are on the roadmap:
0.0.X - Initial Early Access Launch
0.1.X - Update 1: Townsfolk Update
0.2.X - Update 2: The Mage Tower
0.3.X - Update 3: Exploration
0.4.X - Update 4: Crime & Punishment
etc.
I hope you find this info useful, and stay tuned for another weekly patch update that should be going out later today!
Phil
PS: Here's the roadmap that I mentioned above (in case you haven't seen it or wanted a reminder):