为何要采用抢先体验这种模式？

“Thrive has spent many years in development as a volunteer project. It's been a long journey for us to even reach as far as we have, but we think we now have a solid playable foundation. We are offering Thrive on Steam to reach a wider audience in the hopes that we can finish the game much faster by offering the game on Steam in Early Access.”

这款游戏的抢先体验状态大约持续多久？

“Roughly 140 months at the current rate of progress. This estimate is based on the progress made in the past year on the first stage of the game. But this is a very uncertain estimate as development speed can vary wildly based on how many involved developers we have and if the upwards trend of development speed of the past years continues or even speeds up further.”

计划中的完整版本和抢先体验版本到底有多少不同？

“We have a long list of planned features and fixes for the currently implemented stages, as well as grand plans to introduce further stages with smooth transitions between them. These will span from microbial tidepools to space-faring empires, ending with in the Ascension Stage unlocking full sandbox tools to mess with the game world. In the later stages, the game will transition to fully 3D environments, with 3rd person character controls. Beyond that, it will move to a strategic view with 4X features.”

抢先体验版本的现状如何？

“Currently we are focusing development on the first stage which is about microbes and microbiology. Only the first stages of the game are currently playable, but even they are missing some features. Starting from the move to macroscopic scale, the rest of the game is only included as tech demo level prototypes to show off our plans for the future stages and how they link together. For the microbial part of the game we have the core gameplay loop - surviving in the environment and editing your species in the editor - up and running with most of the planned features complete. Still there are many upcoming planned improvements to the microbe gameplay and user interfaces before we will switch development focus to the next stage.”

在抢先体验期间和结束之后，游戏价格会有所不同吗？

“The price will be gradually increased as more and more content is added to the game.”

在开发过程中，你们是如何计划让玩家社区参与进来的？

“We have already released multiple releases of Thrive, and after each we have listened to feedback from the players who played that release on our community forums. This has helped us greatly to find unintuitive parts of the game, a huge number of bugs, and also discover ideas that have affected the direction of future development. We also discuss possible future ideas and possible implementations with the community on our forums and on Discord, often helping us shape our future plans. We plan on continuing these approaches to community involvement.”