Hi everyone,
I hope everyone enjoyed the last couple of updates. While I didn’t manage to release all the content I wanted for the summer, more awaits for sure. I wanted to write this announcement to first of all thank everyone who has played the game up to this point and gave any feedback, as it really helps. I’ve managed to build a small but nice community around the game through the game’s discord server which has really helped the development of the game and proved to be a really nice place to chat about many topics and have a good time.
With all of that being said, here is what is to be expected to come from the game in 2021 and 2022. As most of you know, this game is a passion project of mine I’m working on by myself during my free time. While I really enjoy working on it, because the game has such a large scope, I am finding it harder and harder to develop it as with each update its complexity increases and I end up spending enormous amounts of time working on even the smallest features (some of you might have noticed this trend with the last summer updates where I had to postpone over and over the release of the updates). Also, as I get through college and advance in my career I have less and less free time which is also less than ideal for the development of the game.
I am saying this in order to let you guys know, that while development of the game is by no means stopped, the frequency of updates will greatly be reduced in the future, with the next update being expected in January of 2022 with a bit of luck. I also say this to stress how important support of the game is for me, seeing more and more people actually playing the game and giving feedback on it is what motivates me to release new updates, so if you want to help the development of the game, by far the best thing you could do right now is share it, share it with friends, on the internet, make youtube videos, post on reddit, twitch even twitter – any bit of exposure helps infinitely, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support offered till now.
Finally, here is the roadmap of the game for the year 2022:
- Alpha 0.92 – Base Building and Crafting Improvement Update – Expected for either January 2022 or April 2022
- Alpha 0.99 – Story Update and Huge Game Overhaul – Expected for July 2022
- Beta 0.22 – Blood and Ice Update – expected for September 2022
Beta release will be a very big thing, as by that point most of the final mechanics of the game will be implemented and the game might be for the first time cool and fun to play – I will also most probably price the game once it will be in Beta, as I will consider it worth a price by that point.
While development of the game is slowing down, I AM STILL working on it and planning to FINISH IT, sometime, with time, in the future 😊.
Also, don't forget to join our community at: https://discord.gg/SASN3A2CXh
Love,
Petru, BaleYc Studios