早期アクセスにした理由

“I believe that a good game starts by being tested by the players, because the developer can't objectively judge their game. I often think that what I'm doing is great because I enjoy doing it, but by posting it on the Greenlight, I realized that not everyone could enjoy the game (it was too dark, or it felt small).

So, to improve the game, I want an early access to see what you guys really think after playing it. And I also want to see if there are bugs, performance issues...

I currently changed the dark problem, it's now a bit better, but I can't do much more about that, otherwise the game wouldn't be the same, and it would lose all interest. And the game is "Lost Items", not "Lost Interest".”

このゲームは大体どのくらいの期間早期アクセスですか？

“Well, I first thought of a month, but it sounds like there are much to do before the first release. So between 6 and 8 months sounds quite reasonable. With that time, I'll be able to solve all the bugs you encounter and improve the game much more.”

早期アクセスバージョンと計画されているフルバージョンの違いは？

“The Early Access is currently at a state where everything is almost correctly working, there are all the basic features I wanted in the game :

• You have the ghosts stealing the items and then putting them back on the ground.
  
• You can choose between many characters with different powers (6 powers and 7 characters, including the no-power one).
  
• There is a menu and the settings allowing you to change the keymapping, the sound volume.
  
• There is a real end.
  
• There is multiple playable levels.

So what can you expect about the final version ?

• Firstly, performances improvements for the hard levels. The Early Access version works 3 times faster than the development version I used to distribute.
  
• A new deplacement system because this one is too messy.
  
• The possibility of resizing the window.
  
• And more content like more ghosts, blocks, items...

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早期アクセスバージョンの現状はどうなっていますか？

“The current state of the Early Access is what I'd like to call a pre-release.

There is exactly what I wanted to see in the game. The game is stable, it just has some minor bugs that won't affect the gameplay that much. So I'd say the game is fully playable but not totally enjoyable.

Let me explain :

• We have some things that makes the gameplay kind of bad :
  
• When the framerate is around 30-60fps, the game performances are becoming bad because of a bad implementation. I realized that after making the build live so I won't change it yet, I'm currently working on it and it'll be soon be fixed.
  
• I think that the gameplay is poor : even if you have many powers that allows a variety of gameplays, it misses something : monsters. Of course there are the ghosts, but they won't try to kill you. So it misses the fear of dying yet. Of course, changes are planned to make you fear the death !
  
• The moving system is messy, I'm trying to change it so it feels better. Currently, there is an order of priority : Up, right, down, left. I need to make a queue so it's last pressed, first checked.
  
• And to me, the main issue : you can only play with a 1280x732 window, which is a real issue.

So it is an early access as long as these issues are not solved. And I plan to add some things before releasing the first version.”

早期アクセス期間中と期間後ではゲームの価格は変わりますか？

“The price will gradually raise as we add new features.”

どうやって開発プロセスにコミュニティを参加させる予定ですか？

“Well, that's the hard question.
I'd like to say "I want everyone to give me their ideas and add them into my game", but that's not possible, as I'm only developing the game on my free time.

So, I'd like to be as close to the Community as possible, listen to their ideas and selecting the best ideas to improve my game and make something everyone can enjoy.
Also, I'd like to hear about all the problems everyone have, because I can't accept that someone is experiencing a bug making them dislike the game.

To conclude, I can't give a real answer here, I'll just say that I'll make my possible to hear everyone's ideas and add the best into the game.”