Why Early Access?

“TMM is our very first "public" project. We are still understanding the complexity of the industry as a whole. Although the game is ready to be played, we have an extensive backlog of features and content that are yet to be developed, and it is our understanding that the best way to do so would be with community feedback as one of the main drives.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Based on our backlog, at most a year. However, we expect to spend less time than that on EA, as one of our goals is to use community feedback to cull unnecessary efforts.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“We wish to provide far more horizontal content than the first EA version would. That means more maps/levels, more character models and more variations on the existing game mechanics.
We also wish to iron out the issues we understand are the 'main offenders' in our project - atmospheric visuals and general UX. This includes, among other things, 3D art/animation efforts and audio engineering/voice acting efforts.
At last, we plan on implementing features entirely absent from the EA version, such as character customization and procedural level modifiers.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“We believe we have an entertaining - albeit limited in content - game. The entire gameplay loop executes well, there are no game-breaking bugs that our QA and playtests could detect (as we have a 'bugs are top-priority' internal policy) and the social/PvP aspect of the game guarantees a satisfying amount of replayability.
It is our understanding that for our planned price tag and for the nature of our team, the EA version of the game could very much be a "full release", except we have an entire roadmap planned that we wish to execute.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“That is not our plan.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We plan on maintaining a Discord Server as our main communications channel and, depending on how our game is received by the community, opening a JIRA/Trello/similar board so that the community can participate in some objective parts of the development.”