Stoneshard Update #60 - Rewards and Future Plans
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Come February 6, 2020, Ink Stains Games will be launching their crowdfunded roguelike RPG Stoneshard into early access, putting it one step closer to a full release. As a result, we get this Kickstarter update that outlines the team’s plans for the foreseeable future and talks about backer rewards. Here are a few paragraphs to get you started:
Hello everyone!
We hope you had great holidays. The work on the game continues and since there were many questions about backer rewards, we decided to update you on their current status as well as share our future plans.
Right now we are busy with implementing new mechanics and additional content before the Early Access release on Steam. As we learned in the making of the Prologue, it’s not a good idea to introduce and modify game mechanics concurrently with adding story elements. Every gameplay change inevitably brings a time-consuming redesign of an entirety of the story content, even if there isn’t much story as it was with the Prologue.
We’d like to avoid this situation in the future, so at the moment our main goal is to focus on implementing planned mechanics and design an enjoyable sandbox first. After that we will introduce the main story in a single update, as we don’t want players to experience it in chunks over a few months, forgetting original events by the end of it as a result.
Before the EA release we will publish a more detailed roadmap, demonstrating our vision for the game’s further development and features, which will plan to introduce in the near future.
Now let’s get to the backer rewards and list their status along with their approximate delivery dates. Some of the rewards are tied to mechanics, which are not yet fully implemented. Before we are able to start our collaboration with the backers, we plan to finish their implementation within the timeframes listed below.
