G’day everyone,
Over here in Australia, it’s starting to get warm and we’re slowly getting ready for summer. Hope you’re feeling warm and cozy too, wherever you are. I want to thank all of you who took the time and participated in the last Dinkum Community Census. I have to admit that I didn’t expect so many of you to take part in it - there were nearly 10 thousand people who filled out the survey! And a big thank you to those of you who left some words of support and love in the Census. Reading them filled my creative juices to the max!
So let’s quickly summarise the results of Dinkum’s Community Census.
First up, I’ve asked you how you like Dinkum in its current stage on a scale of 1 - 10.
Most of you rated Dinkum in the 7 to 10 range, with 8 being the most frequently chosen value. That means you are quite happy with the game’s current stage, which makes me really happy to see! Of course, this doesn’t mean that the development ends here - oh no! This is just the beginning.
Next question - which mode you play the most.
It looks like more than half of you play Dinkum in a single-player mode, and a quarter of you play a bit of both. That really took me by surprise. This doesn't mean anything will change going forward with multiplayer support. After all, more than 45% of you are playing Dinkum with friends at some point. Your thoughts and suggestions are being listened to.
Now let’s see what you like the most about Dinkum.
From all your answers I could pick a few of the most common responses, which were:
- The Australiana theme.
- Building the town, ability to decorate, and being able to express yourself through designing and building.
- Farm Animals and wildlife.
- That the game is relaxing (chill and cozy).
- That you can play with family/friends.
- Exploration - finding little interesting things, stories, items, and how they work with each other.
- Ability to customise the character.
Next is what you like the Least about Dinkum.
Same as above I could pick a few most common replies here as well:
- Mines need more variety / are too scary and too difficult / pass is too expensive.
- Tools durability / breaking too fast.
- Terraforming is a bit fiddly.
- Cooking - too few recipes and not balanced.
- Too few decoration items and non-livable structures for the town, ie gazebos.
And finally, what would you like to see more of in Dinkum.
This was an interesting question for me too and I was surprised how high on the list was the Wildlife. I see a lot of you like Vombats and the Roos! Besides those answers, you also mentioned a couple of other things. There are too many to include here but thank you for all of them.
Now, what does this all mean? Well, thanks to your answers I have a better feel of what you like and dislike about Dinkum. The good thing is that a lot of the ideas that you had and the things that annoyed you the most are the things that I wanted to focus and work on too. It was good to know that we all feel a little bit similar in which direction Dinkum should head. All of your info was super valuable and if I make any major changes to the roadmap, I will let you know!
Thank you once again for filling out the Census and thanks for playing Dinkum. I’ll see you all on the island!
Speak to you soon,
James