Summary:
- New graphics update nearly complete and releasing soon, planned for sometime June / July
- Possible minor changes to Beginner achievements
- Planning to add a free Demo for new players
New Graphics
The new graphics update is nearly complete and will be releasing soon. You can see some of the latest progress below, including the revamped lava world:
The new graphics are currently up on the Xbox demo already. To give you an idea of how it will feel, here's a playthrough of it:
Beginner Achievements
I want to make some minor adjustments to the beginner achievements. After reducing the number of levels in the beginner worlds, it feels like new players get too many easy achievements too quickly at the start. I feel like it will improve the experience to remove some of them, which will also keep achievements consistent across platforms.
For more details about the changes I'd like to make, I go into detail in this Community post here. I know some people can get really passionate about their achievements, so I wasn't planning on making any drastic changes before bringing it up for discussion and seeing how people feel about it.
Edit: I am also looking at adding new achievements to replace these ones, which I've talked about more in the comments.
Free Demo
The Xbox Demo has been doing really well, more on that in a later post. In light of this, I have decided it's worth adding a free demo to Steam. I am hoping to launch that soon after the new graphics update is complete and released. This way, anyone curious about the game can try the demo first. It will be the same as the Xbox Demo which currently includes:
- All of the Beginner Worlds
- World 1 of the Classic Worlds Plus the first level of World 2.
I will be announcing the release date of the Demo soon.