When Everafter Falls was launched virtually a yr in the past, we at all times 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. As we speak, we launched a brand new main content material replace, which went to some shocking locations. Earlier than speaking about what’s new within the replace, I feel it is very important return a couple of yr and speak in regards to the preliminary launch of Everafter Falls. And simply to introduce myself: I’m Joseph
Shockley, in any other case often known as Riv Otter, the Neighborhood 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 individuals may focus on, counsel, 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 are going to 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 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 approach to enhance your probabilities of discovering what you wanted, so the extra gamers put hours into assortment, the tougher it turned to filter each final merchandise. Some individuals have been simply getting tremendous unfortunate and failing to get that lacking merchandise after retrying for tons of of occasions, and there wasn’t a approach to enhance these odds. As quickly as we seen the bottleneck this was creating for completionist gamers, it was clear we wanted 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 provides 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 presently discovered.
Particularly, creating hard-to-craft late-game chase gadgets that may assist gamers fill out their collections was a straightforward approach we may reply the decision for this.
In Everafter Falls, gamers can adorn their farm and home with totally different ornamentation. We at all times knew that giving gamers purely beauty choices for his or her farms could be useful, however the neighborhood was so excited for all of the totally different choices they needed to actually categorical their creativity of 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 straight have an effect on the sport however are good to have for sure duties, and may make the occasions extra accessible for individuals. For instance, there’s an achievement within the sport to craft each single merchandise; nonetheless, at launch, there was no approach 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 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 may speak about on this content material replace and the way participant suggestions formed the best way this was developed. Studying how you can take the suggestions gamers provide you with and utilizing them to information a content material replace actually scratches the itch that designers should create partaking experiences with their video games. I’m glad that I may 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 outdoors city, none of it. However when you spend just a little time along with your forgotten associates and your useful pet, does not Everafter Falls simply really feel excellent? Is not it the place you at all times wished to be?
Positive, you will have to farm, fish and combat your approach again to prominence within the tiny, cozy city, however you already know your approach round a sword, proper? You understand how to water your farm and progress by the dungeons. You understand how to improve your stats and beat again more durable and more durable enemies, do not you? Simply give these playing cards a superb chomp and you will have every part you want!
After all, in the event you want just a little assist, don’t fret! Automated drones can broaden your stock, are likely to your harvest, and even assist you combat. And your pet missed you greater than something when you have been beneath. They’re right here to assist out across the farm, studying all kinds 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?
