Почему ранний доступ?

«The current development team is not the original team that created the game. The original developer is a friend of ours, and with his authorization we took over the project together with the art and other assets from the original game that can still be used.

After taking over the project, we found that much of the legacy codebase was no longer practical to maintain or expand. Instead of continuing to patch the old version, we decided to reimplement much of the game's code while preserving its core ideas, gameplay direction, and usable original art assets.

As part of this redevelopment process, we use modern development tools, including AI-assisted programming, to help with implementation, debugging, and reconstruction. Game design decisions, feature choices, testing, and release decisions remain the responsibility of the development team.

This is also the main reason we are using Early Access. We want to establish a stable and sustainable foundation for the rebuilt game, then use feedback from actual players to improve gameplay, balance, controls, usability, and development priorities instead of developing everything in isolation.»

Сколько примерно эта игра будет в раннем доступе?

«We currently expect the Early Access period to last approximately one year.

During this period, we plan to continue rebuilding and improving content from the original game, resolving legacy issues, improving stability, and gradually introducing new content and features.

Development schedules may still change depending on technical challenges and feedback from players, which may affect the priority of individual systems and features.

Our goal is to leave Early Access when the core systems are sufficiently stable and the main gameplay experience and content have reached a state that we consider appropriate for a full release.»

Чем планируемая полная версия будет отличаться от версии в раннем доступе?

«During Early Access, our first priority is to establish a stable foundation and restore, rebuild, and improve the core Goblin Age experience.

As development continues, we plan to further improve existing content, system stability, controls and usability, user interface, balance, AI behavior, overall content, presentation, and localization.

On top of this rebuilt foundation, we also plan to gradually introduce new content and features, allowing the new version of Goblin Age not only to restore and improve the original experience, but also to continue developing beyond it.

Our goal for the full version is a more stable, complete, and thoroughly tested evolution of the Early Access build.

These are our current development goals rather than guarantees of every specific future feature. Plans may change based on technical realities and community feedback.»

Каково текущее состояние версии в раннем доступе?

«The game is currently in an active rebuilding and integration phase.

Its core systems are being reconstructed on a new code foundation while we preserve and integrate art and other content from the original project wherever it remains suitable.

The current Early Access build provides a playable implementation of the core game experience and includes the main gameplay features described in the “About This Game” section. Please refer to the “About This Game” section for a detailed description of the gameplay and content currently available in the build.

The game should still be considered a work in progress. Systems, interface elements, balance, AI, presentation, localization, and compatibility may change substantially during development, and players should expect bugs, balance issues, and unfinished elements.

During Early Access, we will continue rebuilding, integrating, balancing, and polishing the existing game experience.

We encourage players to decide whether to purchase the game based on what the Early Access build actually offers today, rather than on features that may be added in the future.»

Изменится ли цена игры после выхода из раннего доступа?

«Yes. We plan to gradually increase the price as major updates are released, existing content is restored and improved, and substantial new content and features are added during Early Access. The full-release price is expected to be higher than the initial Early Access price.

Any price changes will reflect the actual state, scope, and amount of content available in the game at that time rather than following a fixed schedule. We will announce planned price changes in advance through Steam.

Players who purchase the game during Early Access will continue to own the base game after it leaves Early Access and will not need to purchase the base game again.»

Как вы планируете вовлекать сообщество в разработку игры?

«Player feedback will be an important part of this rebuilding process.

We plan to use the Steam Community, development updates, and direct player feedback to collect reports about bugs, balance, controls and usability, performance, and gameplay.

Because many systems are being reimplemented, we are especially interested in learning which parts of the original experience players feel are important to preserve, which long-standing issues should be improved, and how the rebuilt systems perform during real play.

We cannot promise that every suggestion will be implemented, but we will read and organize feedback and use real player experience as an important factor when prioritizing bug fixes, balance changes, and future development.

We also intend to communicate major changes, known issues, and changes that may significantly affect saves or the gameplay experience through Steam announcements whenever possible.»