When Everafter Falls was launched virtually a 12 months in the past, we at all times knew that the sport was going to be altering – what we didn’t know was how completely different it could take care of speaking with our gamers. At present, 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 believe it is very important return a few 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 referred to 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 collect 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 had been after. I additionally stored a watch on the Steam boards and stayed energetic 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 locally. They talked about how onerous 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 folks had been simply getting tremendous unfortunate and failing to get that lacking merchandise after retrying for a whole lot 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 wanted so as to add one thing to assist. Within the model 2.0 patch, there are two new objects that ought to assist completionists collect the final lacking objects 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: helps you to breed solely bugs you haven’t presently discovered.
Particularly, creating hard-to-craft late-game chase objects that may assist gamers fill out their collections was a simple approach we might reply the decision for this.
In Everafter Falls, gamers can beautify their farm and home with completely different ornamentation. We at all times knew that giving gamers purely beauty choices for his or her farms could be useful, however the group was so excited for all of the completely 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 latest 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 might make the occasions extra accessible for folks. For instance, there’s an achievement within the recreation to craft each single merchandise; nonetheless, at launch, there was no option to hold monitor of which objects 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 best way this was developed. Studying easy methods to take the suggestions gamers offer you and utilizing them to information a content material replace actually scratches the itch that designers should create participating 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
☆☆☆☆☆
12
★★★★★
$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 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 somewhat time along with your forgotten pals and your useful pet, does not Everafter Falls simply really feel excellent? Is not it the place you at all times needed to be?
Certain, you will must farm, fish and battle your approach again to prominence within the tiny, cozy city, however you already know your approach 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 an excellent chomp and you will have the whole lot you want!
In fact, in case you want somewhat assist, don’t fret! Automated drones can develop your stock, are likely to your harvest, and even make it easier to battle. And your pet missed you greater than something when you had 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?
