The demo is live

The FLATBED demo is out now, and it is free. It is chapter one of the campaign, DEBT AND DUST: about an hour of flying, eight of the seventeen sectors, and it stops exactly where chapter two begins. Your save carries straight into the full game, so nothing you do in the demo is wasted.

What is in it

• The campaign opens in the middle of a job. Someone else's sealed crate is in your hold and someone else's battle is sitting between you and the gate.
• Forty seven credits in your account, a twenty thousand credit debt, and a man named Voss who notices things.
• Trade, salvage, contracts and pirates. Three ammo types. A dock full of people who all want something from you.
• Every upgrade shows on the hull. The ship you fly at the end of the demo does not look like the one you started in.
• Conversations that remember what you did, and choices that stay chosen.

The demo is English only. The full game ships in English and Polish.

Now the part that actually matters

I make this game on my own. There is no QA department here, no test lab, nobody playing it for forty hours before it reaches you. There is me, an audit script, and from today there is you.

So I am asking you straight: play it and tell me what is wrong with it.

Crashes. Missions that will not close. A price that feels insane. A fight that kills you out of nowhere, or one you win without noticing. Text that runs off your screen. A stretch where you fly for two minutes and nothing happens. All of it, please. Especially the boring parts, because those are the one thing a developer cannot see in his own game.

Nothing is too small to report and nothing you write will offend me. I would far rather fix it now, while the demo is all anyone has seen, than read about it in a review of the finished game.

What helps me most

• Did you reach the end of the demo? If you stopped earlier: where, and what made you stop?
• Anything that crashed, froze, or did not do what the game told you it would do.
• Combat: too easy, too hard, or just unclear? Which fight, and which ship were you flying?
• Money: were you ever broke with nothing you could do about it, or rich with nothing worth buying?
• Anything you had to read twice because it was not clear the first time.
• If it ran badly: your CPU, GPU and resolution.

The discussion board on this page is the best place to post it. I read every thread myself and I answer.

What I will do with it

Bugs get fixed, crashes get fixed first and fast. Balance and pacing I change when several of you tell me the same thing, because one person bouncing off a fight is taste, and five people bouncing off the same fight is my mistake.

Thanks for flying it. If you want to see the other nine sectors and the four chapters after this one, the wishlist button is the single most useful thing you can press for a one man studio.