Hello all!
First of all, allow me to thank you all for joining us here at Steam and on our Discord: discord.gg/lawnmowingsim , from our announcement at the end of March. It’s been fantastic conversing with all of you, answering your questions and feeling your excitement regarding the product. While we don’t have a release date yet, we want to assure everyone that we all have an exciting few months ahead of us, and we hope you’ll continue with us on the journey!
It’s been around a month since the Xbox Insider Programme ended, and to all those who filled in the surveys, communicated and told others about the game, gave the Xbox Insider Programme a go, thank you so very much. We found the Xbox Insider Programme, our first one ever, extremely valuable! Not only did it form the foundation of our announcement, but it also gave everyone a taste of what is to come when we launch this Summer. But we’re not just here to thank you, we also have a few things to share with you today…
Xbox Insider Results, Game Changes and More
We’re extremely happy with the results of the Insider Programme - as you know we’ve been enjoying your questions in the #Ask-The-Devs Discord channel, as well as asking you more about specifics in various other parts of the Discord. The Discord, in combination with the huge amount of data we received from Xbox containing valuable game feedback has fed into our plans going into launch and updates post-release. More details on that soon!
As well as raising some bugs that we have since fixed, the Xbox Insider allowed us to gauge the demand for many of the features we have already started working on, and have reprioritised our work to factor in and meet that demand - one such example being the rebalancing of the career economy allowing players for more gameplay paths earlier on in your experience. Also, we are making many Quality of Life improvements - such as improving tutorialisation, camera sensitivity options, axis inversion and text legibility, and this is all based on the Insider Programme feedback.
The Xbox Insider Programme has proved invaluable as we reach the end of development on Lawn Mowing Simulator. We feel that now, more than ever, we know our audience way more as a result of the programme, and we can prioritise updates and improvements that you all want to see moving forward.
But What’s Next?
One of the big requests coming out of the Discord was for PC users to get in early on the action too. To that end, we’re really excited and happy to let you know that there’ll be a Steam demo of Lawn Mowing Simulator coming out on 16th June and running as part of the Steam Next Festival until 22nd June.
Like last time, we will set up bespoke areas on Discord and a Google Form for everyone who wants to take part in the PC demo, and we would love any and all feedback!
Over the coming weeks we will be dropping some bespoke Manufacturer content trailers that showcase some of the Lawn Mowers within our game, and keep an eye out as we look to engage a wide range of YouTubers and Twitch Streamers across both platforms leading up to the Festivals. We’re really keen on getting the word out about Lawn Mowing Simulator and the community we have building here! If you’re a YouTuber or Twitch Streamer who would love to try our the game, please let us know at: [email protected] and pass us your details such as channel name, confirmation of email address on channel and so on.
Finally, if you haven’t already - please give us a wishlist and a follow on Steam as that helps us out on the algorithm a lot!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1480560/Lawn_Mowing_Simulator/
Many Thanks