Why Early Access?

“As of May 2022, Round Table is a fully featured, playable and fun game. The gameplay is minimalistic by design. We plan to take this game much further post-release, as we gather feedback from our players.
During early access, we want to learn what players like and do not like, and use this feedback as guidance for our development roadmap.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The game is going to be in early access for three months after the early access release date.”

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

“Round Table is already fun to play. Now we want to turn Round Table into a game you can play forever by adding longevity, depth and replayability. We want to keep the fun atmosphere, the medieval aesthetic and the focus on gameplay.

Our specific goals:

1. More gameplay variety: we want to tune the round timer for each round, and the associated time effects. We want an ability to start in a later round after certain milestones have been hit. We are thinking about lots of ways that would increase playability.

2. More enemy types and enemy behavior: we plan to add enemies that serve as obstacles in the player's path, so he has to avoid them, and plan different routes. This should make hitting all the enemies in time more challenging. We also want to add different looking enemies to have more variety.

3. Player powers: players need more resources to progress through rounds, such as speed bonuses, teleport abilities, AoE attacks or other tools. We do not know yet how the player would go about acquiring those powers, and how permanent they are. We would very much like to add to the game rather than changing what we already have. It is possible that we are going to tie future powers to new gameplay settings.

4. More areas: we plan to add more rooms of the castle, and perhaps the surrounding landscape. We also want to introduce randomized layouts, so every play session and round feels different.

5. Special moves: players should be able to unlock special attacks or moves by performing certain movements, such as clanging the swords together, or drawing runes in front of them (magic!).

6. We are in this for the long term: at the end of the early access period, we want to have a finished game that is infinitely replayable, and delivers both a fun and challenging gaming experience. We believe that we already have a fun game, but want to add more variety and more longevity to it.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Round Table is a level-based hack'n'slash with a time limit and a running high score. The levels are called "rounds". At the beginning of the round a set of enemies spawn. The enemies look like medieval training dummies made of straw, hooked up to a single wheel. The enemies spawn in random locations and move randomly. The enemies do no damage. One hit with a sword removes the training dummy from the round, and adds time to the round timer. The round ends once all the training dummies that spawned at the beginning of the round have been hit, or if the round timer runs out. If the round timer runs out, the game ends. If all the enemies are removed in time, the game moves on to the next round.

In competitive mode, the first round has a 60 second timer and one enemy spawns. Each round, the round timer decreases by two seconds, and the number of spawned enemies increases by one. Each enemy hit increases the round timer by one second. This balancing is correct as of 1.52, but may change with patches and updates.

In arcade/casual mode, there is no round timer, and no score. This is ideal for everyone who is new to VR and wants to have time to get to know the gameplay.

In sandbox mode, there are sliders for round timer, round timer decrease, round timer enemy bonus and hitpower. Moving the sliders changes the values, allowing the player to set a custom difficulty level. The hitpower setting controls how much force of a sword swing is applied to the enemies, which in turn determines how far they fly as a response to the hit.”

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

“Our players are the ones supporting our development of Round Table. We greatly appreciate anyone who is willing to buy our game in an early stage, even though it is already fully playable. For this reason Round Table is going to be significantly cheaper during early access.”

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

“We are committed to an open development process. We want to make it as easy as possible for players to give feedback, and we want to track all the feedback players are giving us. Our primary tools for interaction with players are our discord server, as well as Gramm's twitter account that is linked on the Steam store page.”