Dear Paleontologists!
Since the beginning our goal was to create a fun Paleontologist Simulator - a unique game the world hasn't seen before. At the beginning of 2019, after long planning, we've started the production of this game and prepared a lot of content, then we decided to prepare Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Demo Version to gather feedback about the game. Thanks to this Kickstarter and the great Community, we received many ideas on how to improve the game.
The next step was preparing The Prologue with polished core gameplay and longer plot which introduced players to our game. Releasing The Prologue gave as an amazing opportunity to gather valuable feedback and many awesome ideas worth adding to the game, which would greatly enrich the gameplay.
In conclusion, after reading almost all your comments and discussing the feedback, we've decided to add some big changes to the game based on suggestions that you've posted on Kickstarter, Steam and Discord, but adding these changes and improvements requires additional time. However, we believe that this will make our game even more pleasant and satisfying.
Aside from originally planned features you will additionally find a lot of new things in the game, the most important changes we decided to add are:
- Player XP progress with skill tree
- Museum progress with upgrades
- Ability to shorten exploration or preparation phases depending on player level
- Different bone workflows for small and medium sized bones with completely redesigned, more immersive look
It wasn't an easy decision, mainly because of one important reason - it extends the production time of the game, which is inconvenient both for you and for us. We need to reach the „roots” of the game and rebuild part of the mechanics, for example to enable player progress during gameplay. This means that we will not be able to deliver the game to you as we previously planned - in December.
We hope to deliver Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Early Access to you in Q1 2021. We know that many of you are looking forward to the game and you wanted to play during Christmas. Despite these hard times, we're doing our best to deliver the game as fast as we possibly can, created by passionate players for players. After the Christmas break, we will provide you with more details regarding the development status.
We are convinced that adding those changes was the right decision and we believe that longer development will definitely have a positive impact on the game that we're creating together with you. Every day we also work on Kickstarter goals to implement as many of them as possible before the release day. Thank you for your trust and understanding.
and one more thing...
Merry Christmas!
Christmas is just around the corner! May the Christmas Season bring only happiness and joy to you and your family. We wish you a Merry Christmas! 🎄
Stay safe and take care during the Christmas Season!
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team
https://store.steampowered.com/app/864700/Dinosaur_Fossil_Hunter/