Why Early Access?

“We want to ensure players have an unique experience in OceanCraft - getting the right balance between survival, base building, cooking and teamplay requires involvement of many players. Therefore we decided to start early access - to get as much involvement as possible.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We are currently planning for the full release in about a year.
Depending on the feedback and new ideas we get from the community during the early access period, we might be faster, or decide to take more time for developement.
Ultimately we want the game to be a fun and stable experience for everyone and we would rather take more time, than release as soon as possible.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Our future plans for OceanCraft are to expand on the current base gameplay of surviving on your raft. This basically means, more items to craft, more fun interaction, more ressources, more surviving.
We can´t tell you any details yet, but there are some islands on the horizon, and hunger and thirst will not be the only things you have to worry about for long.
In addition to our personal plans we are of course also taking your feedback and ideas into account.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“This is the very first version of OceanCraft. We currently have the basic mulitplayer gameplay in, with some fun interactions and a handfull of items to craft.
Your currently have about an hour of gameplay, until you have seen all the current content (and can start again with a whole new raft)

Current gameplay features:

• survive alone or with your friends
  
• collect trash from the ocean
  
• build your own base
  
• pallets, walls, tables, chests, etc
  
• grow and harvest plants
  
• fish fish with your fishing rod
  
• grill vegetables or fishes
  
• crafting
  
• save games
  
• public and private games
  
• voice chat
  
• food cutting
  
• hunger, thirst, health

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Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Our plan is to slowly scale the pricing to always reflect the current amount of gameplay you get out of each version.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“If your want to share any feedback with us, or have some questions about OceanCraft, we encourage you to get in contact with us on our discord server: https://discord.gg/b7833Rsvdb
We would like your help to get the right balance, make the game as fun as possible and find all the small things that are obvious to us, but confusing for everyone else.”