Battlefield Briefing 4/24/15

Latest Servo Build: 276

Just One More Game

I played the hell out of the Civilization series for many years.  Like many players, I found myself bleary eyed in the wee hours of the morning saying, "just one more turn".  Then, "just one more turn" again.  Then, the sun would come up and I realized I'd been saying just one more turn for the past three or four hours.

I had a bit of that experience playtesting Servo this week, even though our game obviously isn't turn based.  Our progress had been reset again for the sake of testing, so we were starting out with just the basic parts for our Servos.  I managed to get a few really nice parts early, a sweet missile pod and another part that boosted its damage as an example, and was having great fun in my games with them.  Winning helps too, but so does that great feeling when you pull off your one two punch that results in enemy drones and Servos being blown into many pieces.  The playtest session came to an end but I wanted to keep playing and found myself thinking about more parts I wanted to get to beef up my Servos.

I think that's a good sign.

Welcoming Jacob

Game Designer Jacob Naasz has joined our team to work on Servo.  His first tasks have been all related to the gear you're going to be able to stick on your Servos which has made an immediate impact on the number of options and variety.  There's only going to be more cool parts to come which means even more options - I'm very much looking forward to that.  Welcome Jacob!


Comfy Pilot Chair Number B

A few months ago, we were debating Servo related design questions during one of our team meetings.  There was some back and forth and an example was thrown out of a piece of gear that we could make for the game.  It was a silly off the top of your head sort of example with the awesome name of, The Comfy Pilot Chair Number B.  I think the laughter was still subsiding that afternoon when a new part had been snuck into the game with that exact name.  Never let a golden opportunity like that go by.

I'm not sure we'll ship the game with this part but keep an eye out for it if you happen to be a Founder or otherwise get involved in playing before the game goes out.  Or...maybe we'll decide to keep the in-joke in the game.
 

April 30

April 30 is a big day for Servo, it's going to be the start of our Founders Alpha.

April 30 is NOT the start of Early Access or the release date for the game, both of which I've seen mentioned.  We've still got some work to do before we get to either of those milestones.