Miksi Early Access?

Adventure Land is at a sweet spot in its development journey. Most of the major challenges have been tackled and lately all the feedback has been positive. I believe and hope early adopters will enjoy the game, and at the same time, the game will benefit from a growing community.

I've been working on Adventure Land for more than 5 years, up to this point, I concentrated mainly on the technology and the feature set. There's still a long road ahead. There are a lot of maps, monsters, bosses ready to be introduced. There are items to design and integrate.

As the game isn't complete, but playable and hopefully enjoyable, Early Access is the way to go. We're finally ready for the last sprint.

Miten kauan peli tulee arviolta olemaan Early Access -vaiheessa?

Hoping for 6 months but realistically more

Millä tavoin lopullinen versio tulee eroamaan Early Access -versiosta?

Here are the objectives I'm aiming to achieve:

• Rich Content
  
• Daily Engagements
  
• Engagements that Bring Players Together
  
• Fully Documented CODE with a Tutorial

Mikä on Early Access -version tila tällä hetkellä?

Gameplay - Refined and Final
Features:

• 6 Characters
  
• Party System - Complete with Dynamic Distribution
  
• Skills System - Feature-wise Completed
  
• Bank - Completed
  
• Tavern - Dice Game Live
  
• Item Upgrade System - Completed
  
• Item Compound System - Completed
  
• Item Exchange System - Completed
  
• Item Crafting System - Functional but lacking content
  
• Player to Player Economy - Both buying and selling
  
• Seasonal Events
  
• Regular and Cooperative Bosses

CODE - Fully Functional
PVE Balance - Satisfactory and dynamically regulated
PVP Balance - Nope
Guilds (aka Familias) - Work in Progress, Not Live
CODE Documentation - Work in Progress, Live
Cosmetics System - Work in Progress, Preview
Daily Events - Work in Progress, Sometimes Tested
Deeper Steam Integration - Work in Progress, Priority
Steam Achievements, Cards - Work in Progress, Not Live
Steam Mac, Linux Versions - Planned
Multiple Players Allowed From The Same IP - Work in Progress, Currently the anti-cheating system disconnects characters if limits are exceeded

Muuttuuko pelin hinta Early Access -vaiheen jälkeen?

Price can fluctuate but it won't dramatically increase or decrease, it's safe to expect a fluctuation around 30% of the current price. Admittedly, pricing the game against multiple currencies is a challenge.

Miten yhteisö otetaan mukaan kehitysprosessiin?

We have a Discord with #feedback and #new_ideas channels. I reply to each and every email, take each request into consideration, reply to every GitHub issue. The main challenge for me as a developer is introducing new content without creating balance issues. I intend to create a public group of people within the Discord community called Refiners, there'll be strict rules, the process will be transparent, fair, and Refiners will take ideas from #new_ideas, and convert them into #refined_ideas.