Greetings, adventurers!
We hope that everyone’s holiday season and New Years was delightful! In our end of Beor, we had the pleasure of welcoming a new addition: Memige (our Lead Engineer) and his awesome wife welcomed their new baby boy into the world! What a celebration indeed! Drinks all around!
Now that we have settled into 2018, we want to let you in on all of the design discussions we’ve been having, what we are working on, and the cool changes we are making for Epic Tavern. We believe tunnel vision stunts overall growth and, by including our community in our processes, we make sure that we continuously hone Epic Tavern so that it becomes a better and better game every day. For this reason, we cherish and appreciate the time you all put in to sharing your passion and your perspective.
So, that brings us to our goals: We must promote a cohesive and naturally self-evident player experience. We must expand player agency and choice in the game. We must make every effort to eliminate junctures that provide conceptual breaks that take the player out of the experience. We must work hard to bridge the gap between a player’s idealization of the game and what they are actually experiencing. From the resultant foundation, we must press to exceed expectation and give new perspectives on what exactly a fantasy management game could be.
To that end, we are embarking on a massive push to capitalize on our potential. We are revamping the Tavern social experience to be more natural, engaging, and connected to the many interesting systems that comprise the player’s experience in Epic Tavern. Our work on this push is beginning now, and will take us through Spring 2018. Players will start to see the first manifestation of this push in our next update, due sometime in Early March.
Of course, we will complement this push with continued work on character stories, quests, and further development of our narrative engine. Looking to the future, we are excited to add tavern editing, advanced tavern management, traits, and hero relationships, as we progress forward.
Needless to say, we are extremely excited to start testing out these features, and even more excited to hear from you on how we can make it better!
Again, none of what we do would be possible without the ongoing support of our community. Your input and feedback has been a big part of our game development process, and we really have been enjoying playing the game alongside you all! Speaking of our awesome community, we wanted to point you in the direction of some awesome sites and channels of those who have contributed a lot of time towards improving our game through posts, streams, and more.
Are you interested in modding options for Epic Tavern? One of our hero community members, Draakdorei, has made some tools and documents that will help you to do so. He’s taken it upon himself out of sheer enjoyment to bring everyone some fun mechanics to play with. You can check out his website here.
We are so thankful to have such an great community on our Twitch streams - you make it easy for our moderators to moderate! Our moderators, Aiydee and FeralDraakdorei, have been so attentive and present in our streams. While they haven’t had to throw down the Dugorim hammer too much, they have kept our chat and channel fun and safe for anyone who comes and visits. Thank you both! Come have fun with us on http://twitch.tv/epictavern
There have been lots of Let’s Plays for Epic Tavern on YouTube, and every single one has been extremely fun and truly insightful. Seeing the perspective of the player has played a big role in our development of the game. We wanted to point you in the direction of some channels that you should check out: Our friends The Geek Cupboard, and PyroFalkon have lots of Let’s Plays including Epic Tavern, and other fun games!
We are very appreciative of everyone who has spent time not only playing our game, but also giving us feedback and suggestions through our Steam forums and Online Forums, and through our Discord channel. It’s really been a pleasure getting to know all of you, and developing the game alongside you. We’ve always said that we want to make a game we all want to play, and without you, that could not happen. Journeying through Early Access and steadily heading towards Full Release is much more fun with you all by our side! (That, and a whole ton of ale, of course).
From everyone here at the Tavern,
CHEERS!