Howdy Partners!
Boy oh boy, has it been a long journey! From several bugs to performance fixes and additional features, our Early Access period did really have it all.
But most of all it had an active, breathing, helpful community; we had you. I know that many of you might be far from satisfied with some in-game stuff (Family I'm looking at you) BUT we've got a long road ahead of us still to try and meet halfway.
With that being said, we've decided that our game need not be anymore in Early Access and will be getting fully released approx. early December.
Let's see how well we fared up to what we had initially promised:
How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
“The full version of our game will include many new features, some of which are:
in-game leaderboards. Done: There are now 3 fully functional global leaderboards.-
more graphical assets. Done: We now got more than 300 Patent Cards, with more coming your way. - enriched story content: This is something we didn't really work on due to several reasons but we'd love to revisit the idea of exploring the game's lore more.
-
new areas to explore. Done: We will have 5 Areas (i.e. 300 Frontier Towns) to play by the end of October! We won't stop here of course ;) -
enhanced optimization. Done: Not only did we fix several bugs, we also polished frame rate and CPU performance issues. -
integration of unique Steam features.. Done: We introduced Steam Trading Cards and Steam Achievements to the game!
We also:
- Localised our game in several languages (including Steam's Store Page)
- Introduced Cross-Platform, allowing you to play the game via several platforms (i.e. your smartphone) without losing progress
- Are ready to introduce weekly events with several prizes
- Balanced the economy and created novel mechanics to gain Gold Coins without turning the game into a Pay-to-Win one.
- Created a Discord Server with now about 300 members
- Many more that would turn this into a humongous wall text.
This post is a heads-up of what's following next.
Once Area 5 is ready, along with Weekly Events (and some math tweaking to prevent some bugs), we will have the game fully released.
Our estimation is 1 month maximum from today.
Hope you enjoy your stay in the Wild West :)