Hello Parkasaurus Warriors™! Lot’s ‘a happening. The snow is melting (at least in the cold arctic North) bringing with it the motivation of spring! Here is your Parkasaurus Update #006 : Work the Core.
Alpha Version 3 next milestone!
We finished analyzing all our recent internal Playtests and are using this data to move from Alpha V2 to Alpha V3. (cheers & balloons falling from ceiling) Alpha V3 is going to contain all the bug fixes and changes we determine are required from the playtests – trust me there was a lot. Essentially we are going to work on the “Core Loop” of Parkasaurus. We have some of that early Alpha V3 work to show you in the form of very cool Exhibit polish, and finally we snuck in Dino Babies!
Update 006 Topics
- More Playtests
- Exhibit rework & polish
- Dino Babies!
- Bonus: Cool crate shader!
More Playtests
Enough of the playtests already! We know. But for too long people have released broken Early Access games and we don’t want to be one of them. Bugs? We know that’s ok. But broken messes? No way. People can only purchase so many games and we are honoured you might be willing take a chance with helping us bring Parkasaurus from Early Access to full release. The image you see is a quick collage of a few internal playtests at various points in the game. Flooded parks? Yup! The mouse cursor disappeared to never come back? You betcha.
Exhibit rework & polish
The most important aspect of operating a successful Parkasaurus park is really the Dino Exhibit. More money from guests is generated as you tweak and optimize your exhibits to better match your Dino best friends. And every Exhibit starts humbly with an enclosure. Now we immediately indicate that you’ve created an enclosure and inform you of the square footage (this is important…).
Dino Babies!
We had thought about pushing this until after Early Access, but Dino Babies are too cute! Having Dino Babies grow into adults was a much more technical challenge than one might think. Since a major aspect of Parkasaurus is tending to your Dino best friends we had no choice but to put this feature in.
Bonus: Cool crate shader!
When you order items they are delivered to your park in a crate. This is just a neat little shader effect that occurs when you click on your crate. (Note: there are plans to change this effect to make it a little less “science fiction”)
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