Kenapa Akses Awal?

“When I launch NEODRIVE 1.0, I want to be confident that it presents a worthwhile, accessible difficulty curve for all skill levels, while still giving speedrunners and car sickos something to chew on at the highest difficulty stage. To that end, I will be iterating on track design and tuning difficulty with the help of the community.”

Berapa lama permainan ini dijangka akan berada dalam Akses Awal?

“Six months, based on my current pace of track creation and its rate of acceleration as my internal tooling improves. I will spend most of that time finishing the campaign level set. Any remaining time will be spent implementing community feature requests.”

Apakah perbezaan yang dirancang antara versi penuh dan versi Akses Awal?

“The full version is planned to have have a 64-track campaign (16 levels across 4 difficulty stages). It will also have the existing tutorial levels and some experimental tracks not part of the main campaign. Some of the current tracks may have their layouts tweaked, or be in different difficulty stages based on the community feedback.
I will likely add more data to the player save files, but I already have them versioned with automatic conversion. I would only break saves as a last resort, with plenty of warning for the community. I do not anticipate breaking saves at this time.
I am also planning to add extra car wheels and achievements to unlock.
If there’s time, I also would like to add unlockable car liveries.”

Bagaimanakah keadaan semasa versi Akses Awal?

“Out of 64 planned tracks in the campaign, there are currently around 45, each with the full range of medals and spanning all difficulty ranges. In a few of the tracks, the scenery and layouts are outdated and will be improved before the full launch.
The physical handling model is feature-complete to allow people to master it. Going forward, it will only receive small tweaks and bugfixes to homogenize the driving experience across transitional states like landing a jump, crossing different terrains, and starting and ending drifts and hydroplanes.
NEODRIVE currently contains integrated Steam global/friends leaderboards, a photo mode, and a replay viewer of your best run for each track, as well as an original drum and bass soundtrack.”

Adakah harga permainan ini berbeza semasa dan selepas Akses Awal?

“I plan to slightly increase the price during Early Access as I add more features and content. By the end of Early Access, the price will not change for the full launch.”

Bagaimana anda merancang untuk melibatkan Komuniti dalam proses pembangunan anda?

“Whether a player is a seasoned racing sim veteran or someone who’s never touched a clutch pedal before, I want their feedback on difficulty and level design. I want to make NEODRIVE an accessible arcade experience across all skill levels. As I build out the campaign, I will be collecting user feedback via Discord, Steam community discussions, and in-game feedback buttons.

I will be regularly posting updates with detailed release notes and taking the comments on those into account.

I’ll be looking for feedback on user interface, accessibility extras, quality-of-life, or other features that would further improve NEODRIVE before launch. If there’s time left in the Early Access window, I would also like to implement features by popular request.”