Pourquoi choisir l'accès anticipé ?

« I am currently the only developer of this game. I work on it in my free time, and getting more people engaged in the development process would be very helpful and fun! »

Pendant combien de temps environ ce jeu sera-t-il en accès anticipé ?

« Difficult to say, but there are lots of core features left to implement and I do not think that the full release will be closer than 3 years from now. »

En quoi la version finale sera-t-elle différente de la version en accès anticipé ?

« The Early Access is currently not ready to be played, as I have yet to add some things, polish and combine the seperate systems and features I have into a solid gameplay loop. What will be present on the early alpha release are atleast the following features:

* Character Creation - Facial hair/hair-styles (25 to mix and match) and sliders for sizes on different body parts.
* Map Generation - 2 different biomes, one with soft and one with hard bottom.
* Combat - on the seafloor and in the water, against crabs, fish and worms (three enemies with vastly different behaviours).
* Weapons - a dagger, a spear, and a speargun.
* Echosystem establishment - at least 3 different algae to plant (grass algae, bullwhip kelp, and sawtooth kelp), one invasive species (sea urchin), and one recruitable species (something triggerfish-like).
* Resource management - Health, stamina, soft tissue (for algae planting, healing and taming), hard tissue (for hard structures such as weapons).
* Online co-op.

For the full release I would like to add:

* More character creation options
* Clothes.
* Inventory management
* Talent trees for three different classes to mix and match between. One focused on pets, one on mutations, and one on handheld weapons.
* Player mutations such as pincers, mermaid tails and tentacles, and a system for unlocking them.
* More weapons and abilities such as "poisonous ink spray" and "piranha swarm".
* Atleast 4 more biomes - seamounts, marine trenches, brine mires and worm plains.
* Atleast 1 boss per zone, and concequences within the world when overcoming them.
* A whole lot of more species to fight and recruit to your echosystems.
* Coral structures to build - for farming, storage, protection, NPC shelter, and more!
* Some graphical reworks to improve overall coherency and quality »

Quel est l'état actuel de la version en accès anticipé ?

« Not accessible, as I have yet to polish and combine the separate systems and features I have into a solid gameplay loop. The currently existing systems and features are most of the ones I mentioned in the previous answer:

* Character Creation - Facial hair/hair-styles (25 to mix and match) and sliders for sizes on different body parts.
* Map Generation - 2 different biomes, one with soft and one with hard bottom.
* Combat - on the seafloor and in the water, against crabs, fish (no worms yet).
* Weapons - a dagger (spear, speargun are not yet implemented).
* Echosystem establishment - at least 3 different algae to plant (grass algae, bullwhip kelp, and sawtooth kelp), one invasive species (pet recruitment not implemented yet).
* Resource management - Health, stamina, soft tissue (for algae planting, healing and taming), hard tissue (for hard structures such as weapons).
* Online co-op.

Hopefully I will consider it ready for early alpha release before 2024. »

Le prix du jeu sera-t-il différent pendant et après l'accès anticipé ?

« Yes. To partake in early access is incredibly valueable to me, so any who is kind enough to do so will get the game cheaper than when it comes to full release. »

Comment comptez-vous impliquer la communauté dans le processus de développement ?

« Through social media (mostly Instagram and Facebook for the time being) and Steam. »