That’s it! Hacktag starts its Early Access on Steam after 17 months of development!
When we created Piece of Cake studios and decided to dedicated ourselves to make co-op games it was obvious that we wouldn’t finish Hacktag on our own, but with your help, as a team.
It is now time, after seventeen months of work, to include you in the development process with the beginning of the Steam Early Access.
What is the current state of the Early Access version?
As of now, Hacktag is in a pretty advanced beta state.
Online and local multiplayer
You can already play online with a friend or locally with a good old-fashioned splitscreen mode. Hacktag already contains hours of co-op gameplay and many opportunities to yell at your partner.
Iterative procedural generation
Every level in Hacktag is procedurally generated. During the very first week of the early-access, there will be 9 levels of one mission type in 3 corporations environments. In order to tweak the generation, we will first release an update of the game with new levels on a weekly basis which will allow you to enjoy quality improvement and new gameplay situations. Then depending on your feedback, we will update the game to give you a full access to the infinity of levels granted by our procedural generation with 9 story campaigns.
Experience system and character customization
The experience system and all the passive and active skills you can unlock are already available although it might be tweaked and new skills may appear. Customization elements for your character is already available, but we will add many more unlockable options later on.
Our vision for the final version of the game is centered around these objectives in terms of content:
- Fully accessible procedural generation of the levels. - you have access to 9 levels for the first week of EA.
- 3 types of missions into 3 environments)
- More hacking and co-op mini-games.
- New game modes (time-attack etc...)
- Weekly challenges.
- 9 stories for the corporations with unique NPCs for each player.
- Unlockabke Customization elements for the hacker & agent.
- Various types of guards and antiviruses.
- New environments variety and special rooms.
- Collectibles and a cool achievements list.
- + the cool things you will suggest !
Finally if you want to know more about our roadmap you can read this blog post public trello page
See you soon!