De ce Acces Timpuriu ?

„Early Access seems like the ideal vehicle with which to reach an audience excited to help push The Old Ultraviolet from 'completed game' to 'complete game.' Although there is a vision for The T.O.U.'s expansion already in place, feedback from Early Access players will help guide the exact trajectory of the project's further development.”

Aproximativ cât timp se va afla acest joc în Acces Timpuriu?

„The Old Ultraviolet will remain in Early Access for at least a year after releasing.

Before leaving Early Access, the game is scheduled to have undergone a gradual makeover, including at least a few immediately-obvious improvements (new T.O.U.-specific additions to the soundtrack + more concept/scene art) and a significant amount of minor adjustments (cutscene direction, combat skills, battle balance, script changes, map design, etc.).”

Ce diferențe vor fi între versiunea completă, finală și cea aflată în Acces Timpuriu?

„The plan for the full release of The Old Ultraviolet is for it to offer more numerous and more detailed dungeon areas, more complex and better balanced combat, Steam achievements, a larger supporting cast of characters, more side quests, and new events in the main story.”

Care este starea actuală a versiunii aflate în Acces Timpuriu?

„At launch, the Early Access version of The Old Ultraviolet will feature approximately 8 hours of content in total. The game is playable from start until end credits, with many optional locations, NPCs, and side stories.

Combat takes place mainly in clearly defined dungeons, with up to 4 members of the Vinyl Club facing a wide variety of enemy skills and encounter compositions. When it launches, the Early Access version of The Old Ultraviolet will feature several enemy graphics that remain subject to change (along with the overall combat aesthetics). It should also be noted that while elemental weaknesses are technically up and running as an integral part of the battle system, one might write an unlimited saga on said system's absurdly abstruse present state.

All in all, it's a functional game with a 1970s setting of unique(ly unsightly) design. Hopefully you will embrace the pre-release version of The Old Ultraviolet as an interesting experiment with an idiosyncratic appeal all its own, but community feedback is sure to give it the kind of direction it needs to evolve into a better-realized version of itself throughout its Early Access process.”

Va avea jocul aflat în Acces Timpuriu un preț diferit față de versiunea finală?

„The price will go up as the amount of polish, content, and overall feeling of value continues to rise.”

Cum dorești să implici comunitatea în procesul tău de dezvoltare?

„Community feedback can be delivered through The Old Ultraviolet's Steam discussion forums, via email at theoldultraviolet@gmail.com, or on Twitter at twitter.com/toakimaya.

Your input should prove indispensable in determining, broadly, which types of adjustments, corrections, and improvements are needed--in terms of balancing, signposting, abilities, pacing, etc.--and which ones ought to take precedence. Several updated versions of the game (having taken many of these suggestions into account) are planned to be released throughout The Old Ultraviolet's Early Access period.”