Why Early Access?

“Augmental Puzzles is a collection of logic puzzles powered by our universal constraint solver. We are launching day one with Sudoku. We have a wide range of new puzzle modes we are developing which need feedback. As content is developed for those modes we need to help calibrate our difficulty, hints and presentation.

We plan to develop a range of puzzle modes including:
- Nonogram, Skyscrapers, Battleships (newspaper puzzle variant), Binary, Killer Sudoku and other popular logic based newspaper variants.
- 3 dimensional variants of these puzzles focusing on spatial augmentation. This will require a lot of feedback from our community to get the difficulty right as they will be new puzzle formats built for VR and MR.
- A realtime multiplayer co-operative puzzle solving experience (Based on level of community interest)

This is a fully self funded indie project, and we have enough funding for the full planned one year development period of Early Access.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Our goal is between six months to a year depending on audience reaction.

Monthly updates give us the opportunity to release new or improved puzzle modes and content to our community. We will also be polishing the overall experience as we go. If we receive strong feedback, we may take additional time to improve on things. The only major feature left to develop is the real time multiplayer elements.

Our launch window is flexible to account for feedback on new puzzle modes and difficulties in developing the multiplayer to a quality level we are happy. Our 1.0 launch will be simultaneous across all platforms, this may require us to delay based on commitments and timetables on those platforms.”

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

“The key differences:
- A range of new puzzle modes eg. Nonogram, Skyscrapers, Battleships (newspaper puzzle variant), Binary, Killer Sudoku
- Real time, multiplayer puzzle solving
- Amount of individual puzzles”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Our foundational gameplay experience and core help features are all in place and ready to go.

Currently users can play and solve a wide range of Sudoku puzzles. They can also play a new Sudoku Daily Challenge and see how they fare on the leaderboard.”

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

“By purchasing during Early Access, you are getting the game at a discounted rate. We do not plan to change the price during Early Access. At full launch the game price will increase.

Additionally, we want to reward our community for their time and feedback. Throughout the Early Access period, we plan to provide special promotional content specifically for active players. Some of this content will be unique to early access while other content will be purchasable by the community post launch.”

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

“We want to work with our players to refine our new puzzle modes and help calibrate the difficulty of content.

The game will feature an in-game feedback system for players to report bugs, give subjective feedback, and help us improve Augmental Puzzles. We will communicate development updates via Steam’s “Recent Events & Announcements” and the in-game menu. We also plan to use in-game polls during Early Access to help prioritize which puzzle modes we develop next.

We have a roadmap and a creative vision of what we want to build. Through monthly updates and feedback, we hope to deliver the best version of this game to our community.”