Road Map: We Are The Caretakers Development

[heartshapedgames]

We Are The Caretakers Roadmap: April - May 2021

Now that we've had a chance to regroup and take in the feedback from this weekend's Early Access launch, we're ready to share our development roadmap and priorities for the next few weeks! We're excited to address everyone's feedback and add some important features. Here is what we're working on over the next month, in no particular order.

1. Controller support: we're close to having a stable controller implementation and plan to release it for feedback as soon as it's ready.

2. First pass additional language support: We're working on translations for all text in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. As those languages come in, we'll offer them in a a work-in-progress state, and then upgrade them to complete as soon as we identify all localization-related bugs.

3. Widescreen and high-res (1080p+) Bug fixes, support, and cleanup. The game was developed with 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios in mind, and we are working to ensure all UI and visual effects play nice with other aspect ratios and resolutions.

4. Tutorial and new user experience adjustments.

5. Balance and variety in detained poacher choices. Everyone seems to love dealing with poachers, and we want to go deeper on it, making the choices/consequences feel more balanced and interesting.

6. Era 3 (Central Greatlands) mission and map polish. We see a lot of ways to improve the polish of the map visuals and mission objectives in the 3rd Era of the Early Access campaign. We'll be doing a pass to improve these later missions in the game.

7. Survival mode balance and mission variety. We also hope to add a start to difficulty settings to give an option for more or less challenge.

8. Save game optimizations, stability, and additional data saved. Some elements such as tutorial tip progress needs to be saved, and we can stabilize it further to ensure players never experience major issues with loading saved games in the future.

9. New character traits, and a pass on ability/effect tooltips for correctness & readability.

10. Combat damage balance, new visual effects, and feature polish.

11. Additional special recruits and at least 1 new character class.

Let us know what features and improvements you'd like us to work on in this thread and in our official Discord Server[discord.gg]

[FaintPulse]

How is development coming along? It’s been more than a month since the last update.

[sbrodie]

Originally posted by FaintPulse:

How is development coming along? It’s been more than a month since the last update.

Development is coming along great after a short break for the team earlier this month. Look out for our next update announcement this week :)

[Jo]

Originally posted by heartshapedgames:

We Are The Caretakers Roadmap: April - May 2021

Originally posted by sbrodie:

Originally posted by FaintPulse:

How is development coming along? It’s been more than a month since the last update.

Development is coming along great after a short break for the team earlier this month. Look out for our next update announcement this week :)

So Roadmap April May 2021 means July update realistically?

[sbrodie]

Originally posted by Jo:

Originally posted by heartshapedgames:

We Are The Caretakers Roadmap: April - May 2021

Originally posted by sbrodie:

Development is coming along great after a short break for the team earlier this month. Look out for our next update announcement this week :)

So Roadmap April May 2021 means July update realistically?

Like in the response you quoted, there will be a new update coming this week (targeting Friday/Saturday)! We've also addressed a number of the items in the roadmap over the course of the first month of updates. I'll update this post (and create an updated roadmap) tonight with what progress we've made. Thanks so much for the interest in the game and your patience!

[Jo]

Originally posted by sbrodie:

Originally posted by Jo:

So Roadmap April May 2021 means July update realistically?

Like in the response you quoted, there will be a new update coming this week (targeting Friday/Saturday)! We've also addressed a number of the items in the roadmap over the course of the first month of updates. I'll update this post (and create an updated roadmap) tonight with what progress we've made. Thanks so much for the interest in the game and your patience!

2-3 weeks later... Removed from wishlist.

[heartshapedgames]

Originally posted by Jo:

Originally posted by sbrodie:

Like in the response you quoted, there will be a new update coming this week (targeting Friday/Saturday)! We've also addressed a number of the items in the roadmap over the course of the first month of updates. I'll update this post (and create an updated roadmap) tonight with what progress we've made. Thanks so much for the interest in the game and your patience!

2-3 weeks later... Removed from wishlist.

Much appreciated for letting me know.

I shared a devlog update in our Discord channel detailing the challenges I've faced getting controller support and localization in the game in a stable fashion. Lots of edge cases to fix. I didn't want to release a broken implementation. I'm working as fast as I can on a complex problem and hope to have the update live this week. Once this big chunk of work is addressed we should see the speed of updates increase.

[FaintPulse]

Originally posted by heartshapedgames:

I shared a devlog update in our Discord channel detailing the challenges I've faced getting controller support and localization in the game in a stable fashion. Lots of edge cases to fix. I didn't want to release a broken implementation. I'm working as fast as I can on a complex problem and hope to have the update live this week. Once this big chunk of work is addressed we should see the speed of updates increase.

Take your time. And remember we’re rooting for you and WATC

[KounterFIT]

Originally posted by Jo:

Originally posted by sbrodie:

Like in the response you quoted, there will be a new update coming this week (targeting Friday/Saturday)! We've also addressed a number of the items in the roadmap over the course of the first month of updates. I'll update this post (and create an updated roadmap) tonight with what progress we've made. Thanks so much for the interest in the game and your patience!

2-3 weeks later... Removed from wishlist.

This isn't any good of feedback. This is just being negative for the sake of being negative. It provides nothing to the developer.

[heartshapedgames]

As a quick update, we have a release candidate build made and it is in testing today. There are a few smaller bugs identified so far, so we are expecting to fix those and have a final candidate tonight or tomorrow. Depending on how long the final bug fixing takes, we may hold the release until Monday. But we're very close! Thank you all for your patience, and I'll be excited to cross off a number of these roadmap items soon :).

[luisito10]

take your time, I prefer to wait for something stable than something that is being fixed all the time, the good thing would be that more or less give an estimated date for updates, because for example I am not in disagreement and gives the feeling for what we see in steam only that the game has a certain abandonment when it is not real, greetings from Argentina.
PD: do not leave the steam people lying there post the things more or less that they are seeing

[heartshapedgames]

We're pleased to share the major update (v0.5) is now live. The detailed change log can be found in our latest announcement: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042960/eventcomments/4312743731817610355/

Thanks so much for your patience and support.

[FroBodine]

Originally posted by heartshapedgames:

I shared a devlog update in our Discord channel detailing the challenges I've faced getting controller support and localization in the game in a stable fashion.

You are selling the game here on Steam. Please share devlogs and all updates here on Steam so we're not left in the dark. Not everyone uses Discord, and you are selling the game here. Thank you.

[heartshapedgames]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Originally posted by heartshapedgames:

I shared a devlog update in our Discord channel detailing the challenges I've faced getting controller support and localization in the game in a stable fashion.

You are selling the game here on Steam. Please share devlogs and all updates here on Steam so we're not left in the dark. Not everyone uses Discord, and you are selling the game here. Thank you.

Sure, I can create a devlog thread and try to share my dev notes on the Steam Forums as well as Discord. The development updates are usually informal, but I'm happy to share them here as well. Thanks for the feedback.

[heartshapedgames]

We've posted a new roadmap thread today! You can view it right here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1042960/discussions/0/3052863178840586918/