Hey friends, hope you're all doing well!:)🧡
The release of Paper Animal Adventure on 7th August is just under two weeks away and I'm insanely excited!! Since there was some confusion I do want to mention that the release in two weeks is an Early Access version that will only release on Steam (PC)!
This means that the release on other plattforms, including console releases, will still take a bit of time :( But I'm trying my very best to get quickly to the V1.0 that will release on all major plattforms and consoles.
Since I spent most of this month with preparing a trailer, coordinating stuff and reaching out to content creators I figured it would be a good opportunity today to talk about what's actually gonna be in the Early Acess version. There's a bunch of more content already available, but much of it is not polished / balanced, so much of it will be added over the course of the Early Access phase :)
Let's jump into it💪
Characters🐣
There will be a total of 10 characters available in the Early Access version!:)
You'll start with Peep, Shelp and Kwak and later you can unlock Cookie, Indie and Nana.
Over the course of your adventure you can get a variety of eggs: a dino egg, an axolotl egg and a pig egg. When you feed the eggs in your camp a character will hatch that will join your team! This means the Dino, Axolotl and Pig are also available characters:)
The Dino and Axolotl have five different variants, each with their own stats and roles. The Pig has four different ones💪
The last available character can also be gotten in a run, but only if you chose to go to the Kaboom Dunes route. Can you guess which character I'm talking about?
The Crewmate!
So this makes a total of 10 available characters! You can start your adventure with 6 of them and can find 4 of them in your runs:)
Furthermore every character has their standard A-Skin and you can also unlock their B-Skin.
Other skins will be made available in later versions💪
Areas🗺️
Early Access has a bit of a bad reputation, because many players (often rightfully) say the game provided is more an alpha/beta and is very incomplete.
I didn't want to convey the feeling of the game being super incomplete, so I decided to include all 8 base areas!
This also means you can fully complete the base game!✨
There's no Rewind and Chaos areas yet, those will also become available with later updates:)
Items, Skills and Stickers🍎
The Early Access version will start with a pool of 30 available Items!:) These include all base Items you can pickup anywhere (e.g. Fern, Honey, Cherrock) and a few general base Items (e.g. Tomapple, Golden Potion, Protein Powder).
The Cookpot will also be available, but not the Super Cookpot yet. The range of recipes is rather small, but will expanded later on too! For now you can cook Cake, Sweet Candy, Sour Candy, Spicy Candy, Spooky Candy and Salad💪
Skill-wise we will start with a range of 10 available ones!
Brawler Skills: Aerial Impulse, Thorntendril, Pyroblast
Caster Skills: Bubblegun, Windblade, BojoBoom
Utility Skills: Guardian Sphere, Domain, ZzZFuel, Second Tackle
There will also be 35 attributes out of 51 available (so a lot!).
Also the game will launch with 30 Stickers. Currently there are about 85 programmed, but the rest of them (and hopefully some more) will also be added via later updates:)
(Please ignore the pyramid there xd)
These will be the 6 Everyone is X stickers based on the available characters in the Character Select Screen, as well as some more basic ones like Berserk, Boon, Twin Trouble, SPEEDCAT or Third Gear.
The Holo and Cursed system will also be included right from the start!
Other stuff🐛
Difficulty Settings will also be available! With the absence of Rewind Runs I thought the Very Hard and Nightmare difficulties would be needed to offer you guys a challenge:)
I also want to mention that the Nightmare difficulty isn't available from the start on, but it will be unlocked as soon as you beat the base game:)
The game's achievements system has space for about 220 achievements. Out of those 110, so 50%, will be available:)
Cards will also be of course there! I haven't gotten too far with filling all the slots, but about 10 different packs are there💪
Also Camp Building and Traders will be available normally. I'm not sure yet if you're able to upload your camp and find others in the first Early Access version, but it definitely will be added at some point!
What will be added over the course of the Early Access phase✨
Content that will be added over the course of the Early Access phase and leading up to the V1.0 includes but is not limited to:
Online Tournaments: With global Score and Time Attack leaderboards
Challenges: Probably around 52, but I'm thinking about reducing them, since 52 is a lot and might feel like a bit much lol
Proviant Packs: Daily changing starting objects that you can take with you on your run
Rewind & Chaos runs: Basically New Game+ and New Game++ modes
Super Cookpot
Crystal Forge
More characters (and skins), Items, Skills and Stickers, etc.
Thanks for reading🧡
That's it for today friends, thanks for reading so far!!
I'm insanely excited (but also pretty anxious) about the launch in 13 days! Please consider telling your peers also about the game, the more people are interested in Paper Animal Adventure the stronger the launch will be!:D (And maybe I'm able to pay for my health insurance a bit longer lol)
Take care of yourself and others and see you in a few days!!!🚀🧡