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 completely different it will take care of speaking with our gamers. At this time, 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 you will need to 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 often 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 within the Everafter Falls Discord the place individuals may 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 lively in them to indicate 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 neighborhood. 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 manner to enhance your probabilities of discovering what you wanted, so the extra gamers put hours into assortment, the tougher it turned to filter out each final merchandise. Some individuals had been simply getting tremendous unfortunate and failing to get that lacking merchandise after retrying for lots of of occasions, and there wasn’t a manner to enhance these odds. As quickly as we seen 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 objects that ought to assist completionists collect the final lacking objects they want:
- The Golden Shroom Terrarium: a prize merchandise and gives you 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 at present discovered.
Particularly, creating hard-to-craft late-game chase objects that may assist gamers fill out their collections was a straightforward manner we may reply the decision for this.
In Everafter Falls, gamers can adorn their farm and home with completely 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 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 instantly 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; nevertheless, at launch, there was no strategy 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 may 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 need to create participating 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 keep 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 somewhat time along with your forgotten mates and your useful pet, does not Everafter Falls simply really feel excellent? Is not it the place you all the time wished to be?
Certain, you will must farm, fish and struggle your manner again to prominence within the tiny, cozy city, however you realize your manner round a sword, proper? You understand how to water your farm and progress by means of the dungeons. You understand how to improve your stats and beat again harder and harder enemies, do not you? Simply give these playing cards a very good chomp and you will have every little thing you want!
After all, in case you want somewhat assist, don’t fret! Automated drones can broaden your stock, are likely to your harvest, and even enable you to struggle. And your pet missed you greater than something whilst you had been below. 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?
