Hello everyone, Oak here.
I have some not-ideal-but-still-kinda-good news to share with you. We decided to postpone the release of Broken Alliance's upcoming Early Access release until 15th January 2025.
Why?
- I'm horribly burnt out
- We were close to hitting our Early Access quality and content standards, but far enough to be concerned
- We need more time to test the game
That's pretty much it. It really is as simple as that. I've been leading this project for about 3 years now, and we've had delays here and there, due to the project taking its shape and such. But it's been quite difficult lately. I've been ill for almost an entire year now, and only a month ago I found out what was actually the problem. I have had no time to recover, and while we've made great strides as a team, the whole production has suffered because of my illness and the lack of energy thereof.
Thus, we decided to delay the Early Access release of the game. We decided upon January, because this would give us enough time to readjust to the level of polish we want to achieve (thank you for those of you who have given us feedback so far!) and to make sure that we are giving you the experience that you might expect from a project such as ours. The next months will be spent on making sure that we have something memorable to offer you from the get go. Something that you can play around with for a longer time. Something with more variety. I know I'm being vague right now, but it's mostly just to try and tease what's in store for you ^_^
The delay is something that's not ideal for our team. To be fully transparent with you, we've had to ask some members of our team to move to a revenue share agreement instead of a full salary. Even though the people we have asked have been very supportive of that idea, it's not an easy thing to ask. This game has taken longer than planned, far longer in fact, but that's something that we have been taking into account as time has gone by. But even taking it into account, things have taken longer to finish. We will still be releasing the game in the best state possible, with the most amount of polish we can give it, but for now, you will have to wait a little bit longer, and I'm sorry for that.
I hope that we can at least build up some more excitement towards January starting from now, as we do have quite a lot to share :)
Much love,
-Oak