Today is the day!
After trial and error; The World Class store page is now up and running! Even though the game is not available for purchase, this opens a lot of options for the upcoming release, play tests, and more. There are a lot of features that become available once this stage has been hit. Since we are trying to be as open in development as possible, it allows us to connect even more to the community! Below are a few questions and answers to explain what the next steps are.
Discord: Link
- How do I play World Class? Just keep an eye out for a Play Test on the store page! Right now just Concept Crew Members have full access when a Play Test is not currently going on. These are people that are constantly discussing with developers during the early stages of creation. More info on this can be found on the discord server.
- What is a Play Test? This is when we open the game up for testing for the community for free. Most of these will occur during the Beta and Alpha stages of the game. There will be some Concept Release play tests as well in the near future! Keep your eye out because we will announce them here or in our Discord server!
- How often do you Play Test? As a currently Solo Developer it will vary quite a bit. Depending on the features currently in development, testing the online portion of it is necessary to make sure replication as well as reliability of these said features work for as many (if not every) persons possible. So if we have a lot of online features coming up, expect some play tests to to be scheduled.
- Do you plan on going Early Access? Only when I feel the game is ready. I know that feels vague, but this would be somewhat close to actual release. I would prefer to keep Early Access toward the end of Beta and use the Play Test feature to have the community test and check out World Class.
- Is there going to be DLC? Eventually the addition of DLC content would be great! However I do not intend on saturating the game with pay walls and pay to win content. The addition of new content would be part of the base game unless we are adding significant amount of content. Such as new continents with story lines and dungeons. Any cosmetic items can be made or found in game as well. All item bundles bought in store will not be pay to win items with stats but simple cosmetic attire that will be marked as bought in description to put a difference on those that took the time to find/make it in game.
- How many classes will there be? Honestly we are trying for a more classless system. Learning skills/abilities will be based on what you do in game and what you choose to focus on. This means if you use swords you will rank up your sword skills. If you use a fireball you will level that spell. As the game evolves more information will be available.