Pourquoi choisir l'accès anticipé ?

« AltspaceVR is a social world, so many of the decisions that matter most can't really be made without an active community using it.

The core experience is already playable, including multiplayer Worlds, avatars, spatial voice and events, but there are several systems we're still actively designing and expanding. These include social features, discovery, events, avatars, progression, world creation and the tools available to community creators.

Rather than deciding all of that in isolation and releasing it when we think we're finished, we want to develop those systems alongside the people actually using them.

Early Access gives us a chance to see how people really use AltspaceVR, which features communities care about and where we should take the platform next. »

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

« We're currently aiming for around 6-12 months, but we don't want to set an artificial deadline.
How long AltspaceVR remains in Early Access will depend partly on feedback from the community and how the features we're developing evolve during that process.

We'd rather leave Early Access when the major social, discovery, event and creation systems have reached a point that both we and the community are happy with than rush towards a particular date. »

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

« The Early Access version already contains the core AltspaceVR experience: you can enter multiplayer Worlds, meet and talk with other people, use an avatar and participate in community events.

During Early Access we plan to expand considerably on the systems surrounding that experience.

We're currently exploring and developing improvements to friends and social connections, messaging, groups and communities, event discovery, World discovery, avatars and customisation, progression and rewards, moderation and safety tools, and features for people building Worlds and hosting events.
Some of those systems may change significantly based on how the community uses them. Features that work well may be expanded, while ideas that don't work as expected may be redesigned or replaced.

The full release is intended to bring those systems together into a more complete social platform while keeping the open-ended nature of AltspaceVR. »

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

« AltspaceVR is currently playable in both VR and desktop mode.

Players can enter shared multiplayer Worlds, move between different spaces, communicate using spatial voice chat, use avatars and participate in events and community gatherings.

The core multiplayer experience is working, but several surrounding systems are still being developed or redesigned. In particular, we're continuing to work on social features, discovery, events, avatars and customisation, progression, creator features and moderation tools.

There will also be bugs, unfinished features and systems that change during Early Access. Some features may be redesigned substantially as we learn how the new community uses AltspaceVR. »

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

« No. AltspaceVR is free to play and we currently plan for it to remain free after leaving Early Access. »

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

« Community feedback is one of the main reasons we're using Early Access.

We already share builds with the community and talk directly with players through our Discord, website, Steam discussions and in-world conversations. During Early Access we plan to use those channels to discuss upcoming features, collect feedback and find out which parts of AltspaceVR people want us to prioritise.

That feedback won't just be used for bug reports. We want the community to influence the direction of features while they're still being designed. That includes things like how the avatar and progression systems work, what social and group features are most useful, how people discover Worlds and events, what tools event hosts need, and what creators need to build better experiences.
We'll test new ideas with the community, look at how they're actually being used and adjust them when something isn't working. Some features may change considerably as a result.

AltspaceVR originally grew around its community, and we want the new version to develop in much the same way. »