Hey everyone, great news today!
Beta 8 is almost ready to be play-tested and will go live this Friday (February 15th).
There have been a lot of changes to the game's code, which will maximize performance even in the late game for all computers and devices. I am talking constant 60-fps! Time to get some mega-bases going!
This of course means there probably will be new bugs we haven't caught, so please let me know if you see or find anything weird. Lazyeye has implemented a fancy new system that lets you send me bug reports from inside the game itself! I will go on more detail about this on Friday.
Anyway! I wanted to show you a sneak peek of what's coming this weekend. Mainly the new and improved Menu System!
What I love about this new design are all the exciting new things we can do with it. You will notice we have a few new buttons: Extras, Roadmap and Community.
I will also be featuring a fan art from the community every week in the main menu. I have been doing this on my social media channels for a bit, but now the incredible artists of the Forager community will be featured inside the game itself too!
The Extras submenu is my personal favorite! We have added hours of new content to the game, that will be unlocked directly from the main menu by completing Feats during your playthroughs (achievements).
Some of them will be ingame content, some will be outside the game, and some will be stuff like the official Forager Comic Book, that will now be viewable directly from this menu!
More secret extras will be coming in the future, even after release!
The Roadmap submenu will show what content updates are coming to the game after release!
That's pretty much it for now! I know I have been quiet lately as we were getting ready to add the final details to the game.
During my birthday last week, I promised myself this year of my life I am going to be much more active with the community. Forager has turned into such an awesome project thanks to all of you giving me feedback and telling me what works and what doesn't. Thousands of gamers are WAY smarter than just one dev, so we need to keep this going and make the best game that we can together!
I will be posting content updates and devlogs more often, and also I have started an Instagram page to post behind the scenes secrets and goodies.
Feel free to follow me there if you are curious what it looks like to make video games for a living!
I am really looking forward to people trying Beta 8 this Friday! It's gonna be awesome!
Happy Foraging!