Hi everyone,
After much debate, the development team has decided to roll our next two updates into one. Faced with the choice of delivering a bug-infested build in January, or giving ourselves more time to do things the right way and publish it in February, we obviously went with the latter.
That means several more weeks of Skara without changes to explore, but we are confident that the community would prefer good, polished content instead of shoddy, half-baked stuff we plan on improving anyway.
So keep your spirits up! We will be able to deliver not only the optimization patch (which will allow most of you to play Skara with lower-end computers, opening up our potential player base significantly) but also most of our core game mechanics for the future.
Those mechanics include player accounts, improved game modes, in-game notifications, and both primary and secondary objectives for you to accomplish in game arenas. We are also working on new combat mechanics and may even be ready to implement our ranged weapons system, as well as improved attacks, animations and game flow.
All of these things should make Skara an entirely new gaming experience, and that is completely because of your help. Your feedback throughout our first months in Early Access has been crucial to getting the game to its current state. Without your suggestions and advice we wouldn’t have implemented bots, character balancing, in-game flow and a lot of other features that are there now. So on behalf of the entire team, I want to send you a HUGE THANK YOU for all the support you have given the project. Our small group of devs read EVERY post you have written about the game, as well as the reviews about Skara in our Steam Store, both positive and negative. Without you guys there wouldn’t even be a game!
Because the response to our streaming and Steam group sessions have been so incredible, we are going to have them on a weekly basis from now on. SKARA IS YOUR GAME, and we’ll address the development of Skara any direction you want to go, since it has proven itself to be a wonderful, wonderful idea and way to work on a game.
So every Monday at 6pm UK time, we will have a developer Steam chat and every Friday we will have a developer stream, 5pm UK it will be in Spanish, 6pm in English.
This is the crucial moment to be influencing the development of SKARA. So please, keep being active on the boards and in social media. Don’t be shy about proposing new ideas and suggesting all kind of features for Skara, even if they are crazy and unachievable - those ideas tend to generate amazing conversations related not only to Skara, but the gaming world in general. We are just gamers like you and are always happy to jump into a conversation about multiplayer game modes, movies or books.
Again, thank you for all this support. We can’t believe how lucky we are to have a community this great behind us. We won’t let you down!
Pablo