Greetings, Designers, Engineers & Entrepreneurs!
We hope you are fine and enjoy spring knocking at your doors! While you are reading this, an external QA team has begun the first tests of the Good Company Multiplayer Mode. It's time to hand out tickets for the hype train. Let's go for a quick ride!
Eric, one of our Programmers, has been working hard on the foundation for you and your friends to build good companies together. Once the basics of setting up a multiplayer session were done, things like including player names, enabling player visibility in the world as well as on the Minimap, and activating the Chat System were next on Eric's list.
Internal multiplayer test, displaying various UI elements for the new mode.
A big plus of multiplayer mode is its cross-platform compatibility. This means you can enjoy a session with friends, even if they didn't get Good Company via Steam! Needless to say, interconnecting various platforms has been quite a challenge. But several internal tests showed that things are shaping up nicely.
Now it's on the external QA to dive in and test the whole system, including a bunch of multiplayer-related features. For one, there are weekly pay-outs of Budgets for each player to be able to independently contribute to building – or managing – their part of the company.
Then there are Pins & In-world texts. You and your friends can use them to place and share information about a specific location in your company or leave suggestions for tasks, etc.
Pins will help you convey specific information to your fellow players.
Another feature that the QA team is testing is Loans. Obviously, these are an essential option for developing a successful company in Multiplayer Mode, too!
You see, there are lots of things to consider. And that's not all. The QA team also carefully checks on all UI elements, tests the options for a multiplayer session, considers the different game speed modes, and, last but not least, how the overall progression feels and plays like.
The current process is a very important and exciting milestone for Good Company. However, there's another one! We are looking forward to way more: the first Multiplayer Beta Test with you, our community. We can't share details about that just yet, but suffice to say, we’ll gladly keep you updated. We hope you are as excited as we are for the things to come!
In the meantime, please don't hesitate to get in touch about any questions or feedback you might have, be it for the Good Company Multiplayer Mode or otherwise. We're happy to chat with you, here or on one of our other channels! Be sure to follow our development, share the word, and treat your wishlists to our game! :)
Take care and be safe!
Your Chasing Carrots