Tại sao Truy cập sớm?

“Barry Has a Secret (chapter one) was created in 3 days for ludum dare 41 "make a game in 72 hours contest" and after 10 days being out there, game become the Top game at itch.io and was viewed by over 3 million people via youtube.

Universal feedback that we saw was: "I want to see the next chapter" (in addition to "fix those darned arms").

Instead of fixing the arms, we thought we need to bring the next Chapter.

And the best way to do this is via Steam early access.

And before we get all the Chapters done, we will stay in very-very-very early access.”

Trò chơi này sẽ ở trạng thái truy cập sớm trong khoảng bao lâu?

“3-6 months.”

Phiên bản đầy đủ sẽ có sự khác biệt thế nào so với phiên bản truy cập sớm?

“Current version contains one chapter, about 30 minutes of gameplay.

Full version contains several new chapters/locations to complete. We aim for 5-10 hours of gameplay.”

Tình trạng hiện tại của phiên bản truy cập sớm là gì?

“First chapter was created in May 2018.

Next chapter is work-in-progress.”

Liệu trò chơi sẽ có giá khác nhau giữa và sau khi truy cập sớm?

“Yep. Price will increase when we leave early access.”

Bạn có kế hoạch tương tác với cộng đồng trong quá trình phát triển của mình như thế nào?

“We'd love to get army of "co-designers" to help flesh out the game.

The core gameplay elements (arms behavior, picking up items system, having very few controls, camera angle, physics based "puzzle" elements) are going to remain. We'd love to get feedback on everything, to polish to core elements and make game a fun experience. All the feedback is very much appreciated.

The first chapter contains almost all the planned gameplay elements. If you like the first chapter, then expect to see "more the same" with the following chapters, where Barry's true secret will be revealed.

Community gets to play and playtest new chapters before anyone else. Plan is to get 1-2 new chapters out roughly every 2 weeks. With about 10 new chapters, that means about 10 weeks of development.

(And because this is software development everybody knows it will take another 10 weeks to polish everything.)

After the 10 chapters are done, the final chapter will take additional 2-4 weeks to complete and by the time it is released, game exits Early access.

The total development is planned to take about 3-4 months if things go as planned (and up to 6 months in a non-optimal scenario).”