Greetings, Travelers!
The year is coming to an end, and the Christmas season is calling. An eventful year lies behind us and we would like to thank you once again for all the support you have shown us. 2023 will not only be a more than thrilling year full of adventures for us, but also for you: the players. In this regard, we would like to send you off into the new year with anticipation and excitement:
The closed Alpha is coming!
We are delighted to tell you that we have scheduled our Alpha playtest: It will take place on the 26.-29. of January! The first playtest for Dungeon Full Dive will be playable via Steam and available for our Kickstarter Backers and late pledgers.
What kind of features can you expect in the Alpha?
- Play with your friends Jump into the DFD multiplayer with your party, chat with your friends and roll the dice.
- Explore the World from the eyes of your miniature Explore the world in VR (or with mouse and keyboard) from the tabletop perspective or jump into your character and interact with a variety of objects right inside your world.
- Edit your Hero Try out an early version of the character creator and switch up your style with a first batch of character assets.
- Build your maps Build your first maps with the first iteration of the map editor: Browse through assets and place them into your world to make it come alive. (Or scale up your Fighters Longsword to 5m, because everyone needs one of those). Adjust the lighting and switch from day to night to set the mood.
With our first alpha playtest, we want to give you the chance to provide us with your valuable feedback regarding the mechanics of DFD, as you will be able to test some of the first versions of the core features.
The alpha playtest is an exclusive early look at the game for our supporters and our first playtest at a large scale. Keep in mind, features are still missing while other might change (based on your feedback) and even though our QA is doing their best job to find every possible bug, there is only so much we can find on our own. So, expect there to be bugs and some rough edges here and there.
But worry not, we have prepared different ways for you to provide us with your feedback and findings (more on this coming soon) during the alpha.
However, for the reasons above this first playtest will be under an NDA. This means that you will not be able to show public footage of this early version of Dungeon Full Dive for now.
Haven’t been able to get an alpha key yourself? This is your chance to claim some alpha keys!
If you missed the chance to secure yourself an Alpha code (or you want to get additional codes for your party members) head over to our Twitter channel!
While you are reading this, we have just started a giveaway where you can snag yourself a package of 5 codes for the Alpha! All you have to do is post the best (or worst?) rendition of your D&D character drawn in Paint (or any other digital drawing software) and you have a chance to win!
And don’t worry: the winner will not be chosen based on artistic skill. One winner will be chosen at random, while the other will be the community favorite (measured by likes & retweets) - Have fun!
You can also expect many more teasers of the alpha coming soon, so to never miss any of our updates head over to our social media channels and sign up to our Newsletter. You can find all of our channels here.
In addition, we are currently planning an open beta in 2023, so that even more people can take the opportunity to play the game and send us feedback. Stay tuned for more information on this!
We also wanted to quickly recap 2022 in this last community update of the year.
In 2022...
... the TxK Gaming family has grown considerably. Our amazing team was able to level up by welcoming additional, talented industry veterans, who all work eagerly to make DFD an even greater experience for you.
We also owe this to the additional funding for our project, which we received this year from the federal grant for video game developers ("Computerspielförderung"). And so, we are on our best way to provide you with the truly immersive tabletop experience we all are striving for.
As many of you have probably already seen, Dungeon Full Dive can be found on Steam.
If you missed this update and want to support us, wishlist DFD on Steam as our release window for mid of 2023 grows closer! (Every wishlist helps us out a ton!)
This wraps up our community recap for the end of 2022. We can't wait to start this exciting new year with you!
Until then,
The whole TxK Gaming team wishes all of you a happy holiday season and a wonderful start
into 2023! 🎅 🎆
~Your TxK Gaming Team