Why Early Access?

“This dungeon crawler is unique in this genre due to its novel dungeon changing room card mechanics and the procedurally generated dungeon dice structure. In order to perfect this idea in a full version, it is important to receive a lot of feedback. Players can help by suggesting their own ideas that can be taken into account during development. Since the actual gameplay already works smoothly and there are already many interested players, the decision to create an early access version was easy.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“There is only one person working on this project, so it is impossible to give an exact release date. It will probably take two or more years to reach full release. During the Early Access period, updates will be released regularly and announcements will be made via the Steam Community Hub.”

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

“The following points are still missing and are planned to be added while the EA status:

• More monsters / bosses with different mechanics
  
• The following rooms are still being finalized: trading, gaming, artifacts
  
• Artifacts tell a story about the dungeons/monsters (*no real story)
  
• Trophy area for collected artifacts
  
• More skills in the skill tree
  
• More spaceships with different designs and other properties
  
• More passive/active equipment and items for the dungeon
  
• Deeper/better balancing
  
• More design elements for the rooms, more graphical improvements
  
• Depending on feedback, further bug fixing, optimization, requests, ...

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What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The Early Access version will contain full functional gameplay and offers the player an already stable structure. The game is specifically designed for playing with a controller (alternatively keyboard, NO mouse control). A well-developed settings menu and well-functioning controls with icons are already built in. The player can expect:

• Explore endless procedurally generated dungeons (cubes) with replay value, exciting atmosphere and unique design.
  
• Play with your favorite spaceship and discover dangerous monsters/bosses, learn interesting mechanics, find items and equipment, reach rare rooms, ... within an exciting atmosphere. Find new ways by manipulating the dungeon.
  
• Seed system ensures exact repeatability, whereby the design of the rooms is deliberately changed to make it visually interesting even when repeated
  
• Each dungeon is a cube with 6 sides and 16 rooms on each side. These can be explored beyond the edge of the cube and thus offer 6 individual "biomes"
  
• The 6 "biomes": High Area, Entrance, Passway, Danger Sector, Cross Over and Cube Center always form a dungeon and can be reached in different ways.
  
• Collecting room cards that can be inserted into the dungeon. This means that EVERY dungeon can also be manipulated and players can always take different paths.
  
• Room types: Common, room cards, boss, activation, artifacts, passive equipment, active equipment, traders, gaming, ...
  
• Spaceship classes: Cruisers, Frigate, Dreadnought, Battleship and Fighter
  
• Spaceships: (1x per class in EA) Rayzor, Storm, Wing, Kraken and Night
  
• Passive and active equipment with rarity system can be found in the dungeons.
  
• Sophisticated buff system, statistics system and property display system
  
• Create your own universe by statistically saving the dungeons you play.
  
• Collect dark matter and activate dungeons (permanent currency) to unlock powerful new skills in the skill tree
  
• Collect cube coins (temporary currency) to progress in the dungeon and perform actions
  
• Initial balancing with different difficulty levels to offer every player a pleasant but challenging experience.
  
• Already many quality of life elements such as: All "video sequences" (e.g. dungeon intro) can be skipped by the player in order to offer the greatest possible action in the long term

and much more...”

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

“The price will probably increase for the full version. This will be decided together with the community and depends on the final implemented content.”

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

“Beside the classic channels, a large part of the development takes place on Twitch (live streams) and in close cooperation with the players. However, the Steam Community Hub serves as the most important tool and central point of contact for everyone.”