Good evening, dear STAY ALIVE players!
MAD GAMES COMPANY is in touch.
To begin with, we want to apologize for the fact that there has been no news for so long. A long and painstaking work is underway on the project. In this developer diary, we want to tell you what the project is waiting for in the future and what you should expect.
1. Updating the prologue.
Our team has worked out the prologue and improved the plot. At the moment, we are focused on recreating everything that the screenwriting department has proposed. In this prologue, you will be able to learn more about the initial history of the game and the character himself, as well as meet the first monsters in our game.
2. Improvement and refinement of the “Mysterious Island" location
Our team is also working on the gameplay part. Together with the prologue, the first game location, namely the “Mysterious Island”, will be redesigned. We didn't like its implementation, it was more of a test version for ourselves. As a result, it was decided to redo and refine it and radically change its gameplay value.
3. Character Editor Development
After the designer of clothes and characters joined our team, we began to think about the implementation of the “Character Editor”, at the moment we are not ready to provide it to you in all its glory, since it is now at a very early version of development. Our goal is to make a beautiful initial model, from which you can start in the character settings. Where you can customize: face, body, makeup, hair and starting clothes for the character.
4. Game genre change
Now we are discussing that we want to change the direction of STAY ALIVE, namely, so that our project is not survival in the open world, but a session shooter with MMORPG elements. At the moment, this is still at the stage of discussing project development plans. We will inform you about the decision in a separate post.
5. STAY ALIVE may switch to a shareware distribution model
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Yes, you completely understood us correctly, we plan to make STAY ALIVE partially free. What exactly do we mean by the word partially?
The fact that a cosmetics store may appear in the game, which will not affect the economy and the difficulty of passing the game in any way. Also, all items from the store can be obtained in the usual way, through the game.
We also plan to implement a system with DLC. This DLC will develop the plot of the game and add more and more new mechanics and gameplay moments.
We will immediately tell you the answer to the question that you might have, namely, “- Donat can spoil the whole balance in the game.” Don't worry, we are not going to “kill” the game with a solid donation, it will be purely cosmetic. No one will get any advantage, only an improved appearance, and that's all.
6. I bought the game, did I lose money?
No, you didn't lose the money you spent. We are very grateful to you that you trusted us and purchased our game at such an early stage. In gratitude, we will give you a lot of bonuses, namely:
- Early access to testing game updates;
- Pre-creation of the character before everyone else;
- A set with a costume for your character and a game transport, which kind of costume and transport we will inform you later when the detailed models are ready.
At the moment, this is the least we can provide you with, but the list will expand as the game develops. We promise that the money you spent was not spent in vain.
7. Introduction of the mount system [Mounts
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Here we will be brief, this system will be in our project, but it is not in the foreground. Since we have more important aspects that require serious improvement. Namely: gameplay, mapping and server part.
We have put these 3 aspects first of all for us, as we want to provide you with a better gaming experience so that you will not be disappointed in our game with you.
At the moment, this is all we can say about the development of the game STAY ALIVE. This is our first major project, and we don't want to lose face. We will try to improve our project so that you, our players, will not be ashamed to play STAY ALIVE.
We are not saying goodbye to you on this, we hope to meet you again soon here on Steam or in our Discord channel.
We wish you all the best,
Sincerely yours, STAY ALIVE development team, MAD GAMES COMPANY studio