We’ve had a lot of readers ask “When does the treasure hunt begin? Did I miss it? How can I start?”
No one wants to be left behind!
In fact, I was just on the ABC4 morning show yesterday to talk about the launch.
I am happy to announce that we’re putting a few final finishing touches on the code and we’ll be done (with phase 0.1).
The quest begins this Saturday.
What’s in a Beta?
Video games take years to develop. We started ours in May. We could wait until 2025 to get everything perfect, add all the features, and make all the art look beautiful, but who wants to wait that long?
We want to develop the game with the doors wide open, alongside our community, sharing the good and the bad, and hearing from you all along the way. We want to know what you think is FUN.
There will be bugs.
The art has not even begun. The models will look ugly.
Things will break.
There’s a whole roadmap of awesome features we haven’t even started yet (I’ll save that for another email).
The game will be incomplete.
But we didn’t want to hold back. We wanted to have you all try the quest and tell us what you think.
The core idea that we’re trying to prove is this: Is this fun?
We think it is.
Now we want to know if you’ll think it’s fun too.
How to Download the App
It’ll be easy, but it will take an extra step or too. If you’re an Android user, you’ll get a private link. If you’re an Apple user, you’ll need to download Testflight.
We’ll send you an email that explains it all clearly.
This app won’t be open to the general public. Just to the users who’ve signed up here.
Come See Us at FanX This Week
And… we’ll be giving away a Nintendo Switch there!
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 10:00 AM to Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 11:00 AM MDT
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90 S W Temple St · Salt Lake City, UT
How to find us
Room 255B
See you in the future,
Adam Sidwell
Creative Director
Future House Publishing & Future House Studios
And Another Thing…
There were some fun reactions to talking about Etherwalker here.
And my most viewed and discussed post in the past month, where I talk to an AI alien and ask it a few pointed questions.