When Everafter Falls was launched nearly a 12 months in the past, we all the time knew that the sport was going to be altering – what we didn’t know was how totally different it will take care of speaking with our gamers. As we speak, we launched a brand new main content material replace, which went to some stunning locations. Earlier than speaking about what’s new within the replace, I believe you will need to return a couple of 12 months and discuss in regards to the preliminary launch of Everafter Falls. And simply to introduce myself: I’m Joseph
Shockley, in any other case referred to as Riv Otter, the Group Supervisor for Akupara Video games.
Everafter Falls is the primary farming sim we ever launched, and we noticed suggestions from all kinds of gamers. To assemble suggestions, I opened a channel within the Everafter Falls Discord the place folks might focus on, recommend, and see the ideas of what different gamers have been after. I additionally stored an eye fixed on the Steam boards and stayed lively in them to indicate that we care about their suggestions and that we’ll take it significantly. As a result of Everafter Falls was developed by only one developer, we knew that getting perception from gamers was going to be core to the sport’s launch.
Our first shock got here from the completionists locally. They talked about how laborious and irritating it’s to gather each merchandise and lift each insect to complete out the journal. There wasn’t a manner to enhance your possibilities of discovering what you wanted, so the extra gamers put hours into assortment, the more durable it turned to filter out each final merchandise. Some folks have been simply getting tremendous unfortunate and failing to get that lacking merchandise after retrying for a whole bunch of occasions, and there wasn’t a manner to enhance these odds. As quickly as we observed the bottleneck this was creating for completionist gamers, it was clear we would have liked so as to add one thing to assist. Within the model 2.0 patch, there are two new gadgets that ought to assist completionists collect the final lacking gadgets they want:
The Golden Shroom Terrarium: a prize merchandise and will provide you with a 100% likelihood to get a shroom you haven’t already gotten.
The Epic Critter Terrarium: enables you to breed solely bugs you haven’t at present discovered.
Particularly, creating hard-to-craft late-game chase gadgets that may assist gamers fill out their collections was a simple manner we might reply the decision for this.
In Everafter Falls, gamers can embellish their farm and home with totally different ornamentation. We all the time knew that giving gamers purely beauty choices for his or her farms can be useful, however the neighborhood was so excited for all of the totally different choices they needed to actually specific their creativity of their farm. Even constructive suggestions can be utilized as a information to enhance the sport in a content material patch, which is why, with constructive suggestions on the number of decorations that Everafter Falls had, this content material replace added an abundance of recent adornments, and we’ve already seen gamers including them to their farm and home.
We acquired a ton of suggestions, which I categorized as high quality of life requests. Issues that don’t straight have an effect on the sport however are good to have for sure duties, and might make the occasions extra accessible for folks. For instance, there may be an achievement within the recreation to craft each single merchandise; nevertheless, at launch, there was no option to preserve observe of which gadgets you had crafted, making the achievement annoying to attempt to shoot for. In model 2.0, we remedied that by including a blue star within the crafting menu for any merchandise the participant has crafted. No extra Google Sheets or pen and paper monitoring wanted!
There are numerous issues I might discuss on this content material replace and the way participant suggestions formed the way in which this was developed. Studying methods to take the suggestions gamers provide you with and utilizing them to information a content material replace actually scratches the itch that designers must create partaking experiences with their video games. I’m glad that I might assist form the course of the Everafter Falls 2.0 replace, which is out now on Xbox!
Everafter Falls
Akupara Video games
$19.99
You as soon as had a serene and peaceable existence proper right here in Everafter Falls. Do not you keep in mind?
You get up to find your earlier life was nothing however a simulation. You have no reminiscence of this place, your quaint animal neighbors, the refreshing wind and aromatic flowers, the little farm you had tucked away simply exterior city, none of it. However when you spend a bit of time together with your forgotten mates and your useful pet, does not Everafter Falls simply really feel good? Is not it the place you all the time needed to be?
Positive, you will have to farm, fish and struggle your manner again to prominence within the tiny, cozy city, however your manner round a sword, proper? You know the way to water your farm and progress by the dungeons. You know the way to improve your stats and beat again more durable and more durable enemies, do not you? Simply give these playing cards a great chomp and you will have every part you want!
After all, for those who want a bit of assist, don’t fret! Automated drones can increase your stock, are likely to your harvest, and even provide help to struggle. And your pet missed you greater than something whilst you have been underneath. They’re right here to assist out across the farm, studying all types of neat issues, like tilling your soil, watering your crops, and even teleporting you throughout the map. What? You have by no means heard of a teleporting cat earlier than?
It is Everafter Falls! Issues are peaceable right here. There’s nothing to fret about… proper?
