Hi everyone! We’ve got some big news to share with you, so let’s cut to the chase: Multiverse Designer will release on Steam Early Access in Late Q2 – that is, later this quarter! Very soon Multiverse Designer will be open to everyone.
Now, this does not mean that we consider our virtual tabletop to be finished, or this one to be the version that we promised our backers when we did the Kickstarter campaign. Opening our doors to all users represents a great opportunity to gather some very useful feedback, test our strengths and limits, and of course potentially get more resources to keep growing Multiverse Designer even more. But we want to assure our backers that this Early Access release does not change our development priorities, and we will keep working towards the Full Release version of Multiverse Designer as hard as always.
Mind you, despite acknowledging that there are still features we have to work for us to move on to Full Release (like the anticipated Asset Spawner or more rulesets implemented in Criteria), Multiverse Designer is pretty much feature-complete as it is – in the sense that it is fully usable and stable. The Map Creator is finished, with almost 10,000 3D assets available for all kinds of settings, from fantasy to sci-fi, modern, cyberpunk, or Victorian. The Cutscene Editor is also finished, and you can already create and play online games with your friends in the maps you create (or download from Steam Workshop).
Criteria is still in development, but we are working to release with the basic D&D 5ed ruleset implemented, so the system can take care of all the rules-tracking and bookkeeping for you. Other systems will come further down the line (and we know some community members are also working hard to implement their favorite games, such as GURPS!)
There’s an important detail that we want to explain. Multiverse Designer will release as a free download on Steam, in a limited version that allows only to join other people’s games as a player, as well as a limited version of the Map Creator and Cutscene Editor with a small number of assets for you to play around. The complete Multiverse Designer, the Game Master edition, which gives unrestricted access to all assets and allows you to create and direct multiplayer games as a GM, will be a DLC, available as an in-game purchase. It is the best solution we have found to make Multiverse Designer as accessible and easy to use as possible, without any potential server issues.
We want to thank you for staying with us all this time; we hope you keep supporting us when we release on Early Access. We can’t wait to see what you are able to do with Multiverse Designer. We will let you know very soon more details about what we are working on for the next update, which will arrive along with the Early Access release. Until then, happy adventuring!