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 might take care of speaking with our gamers. Right this moment, we launched a brand new main content material replace, which went to some shocking locations. Earlier than speaking about what’s new in the replace, I feel it is very important return a couple of 12 months and speak in regards to the preliminary launch of Everafter Falls. And simply to introduce myself: I’m Joseph
Shockley, in any other case generally known 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 collect suggestions, I opened a channel in the Everafter Falls Discord the place folks might talk about, counsel, and see the ideas of what different gamers have been after. I additionally saved an eye fixed on the Steam boards and stayed lively in them to point out that we care about their suggestions and that we’ll take it critically. 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 in the group. They talked about how laborious and irritating it’s to gather each merchandise and elevate each insect to complete out the journal. There wasn’t a approach to enhance your probabilities of discovering what you wanted, so the extra gamers put hours into assortment, the more durable it grew to become to filter 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 approach 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: permits you to breed solely bugs you haven’t at present discovered.
Particularly, creating laborious-to-craft late-sport chase gadgets that may assist gamers fill out their collections was a simple approach 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 group was so excited for all of the totally different choices they needed to actually categorical their creativity in their farm. Even optimistic suggestions can be utilized as a information to enhance the sport in a content material patch, which is why, with optimistic 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 immediately have an effect on the sport however are good to have for sure duties, and could make the occasions extra accessible for folks. For instance, there may be an achievement in the sport to craft each single merchandise; nonetheless, at launch, there was no method to hold 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 in 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 in this content material replace and how participant suggestions formed the way in which this was developed. Studying find out how to take the suggestions gamers offer you and utilizing them to information a content material replace actually scratches the itch that designers need to 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 bear in mind?
You get up to find your earlier life was nothing however a simulation. You’ve got 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 along with your forgotten buddies 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 must farm, fish and combat your approach again to prominence in the tiny, cozy city, however you understand your approach round a sword, proper? You know the way to water your farm and progress by means of the dungeons. You know the way to improve your stats and beat again harder and harder enemies, do not you? Simply give these playing cards a superb chomp and you will have all the pieces you want!
In fact, in the event you want a bit of assist, don’t fret! Automated drones can develop your stock, are likely to your harvest, and even make it easier to combat. And your pet missed you greater than something when you have been below. 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’ve got 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?