Have fun with the new trailer!

Wishlist Supraworld:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/

If you want to have daily status updates join our Discord: https://discord.gg/DhWbSbfMqx

-David

We're 3 years into development and we're finally close to getting the entire first act of Supraworld playable.
When that is done, we'll properly test it and go live with it in Early Access.

In this progress visualization you can roughly see where it's at:

For the act 1 release we also need the "Finishing" bar about 1/3 filled (that is the testing, making a trailer - which is required - and maybe localisation).

To not miss the release of Supraworld, wishlist now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/

The other 3 acts will progress much quicker than the first, because the code fundamentals of the game are basically there now.
The detailed plans for the acts are done for a long time; the level design execution of these plans is not such a big deal now that our tools are finally in place.

You can tell we've upgraded to be a AAAA studio because you can pick an edition:

If you want to talk with us, get some sneak peaks sometimes or engage with other Supraland fans, join our discord:

https://discord.gg/jjuQ5nqXw2


If you like this post, you shorten the development time by 1 minute. A dislike adds 1 hour of extra time.

- David

Which edition is it gonna be for you?

Btw, you already shortened development time by 2500 minutes with your likes the other day.
If you keep going, the game was released last year.

And don't forget to wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/

Due to the recent daily deal and summer sale on Steam, Supraland got a lot of new friends. It had the highest player
peak since 2020 even.
If you haven't yet, please wishlist our upcoming game Supraworld which is in the works since 2021.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/


Then next step for Supraworld is to finish act 1 (out of 4) by the end of august. At first we will test this version privately with a few people and then expand the testing group a bit. When we think act 1 is solid, we want to release it to Early Access. That might be in october. We'll see.

We go Early Access because
- the experience from Supraland was that making the game while people are playing it to be a great advantage for feedback and motivation reasons. Seeing people play what you're making, you are being reminded why you're actually doing this and try to give people a better time instead of working on something in isolation forever.
- we also simply need the Early Access income because we're working on the game for 3 years now and production is expensive.

If you now think, if we're only finishing act 1 after 3 years, acts 2-4 will take forever: no, there is a lot done in them too, but it's just lots of loose bits that are not connected yet. You will see stuff around the Early Access area that we'll block off for now though. Some might take that as a challenge.
Most of the work on the game is independent from the acts though. It's mostly fundamental stuff of the game mechanics, performance optimisations and things like menus; nothing act specific.

Every like on this post reduces development time by 1 minute, as usual. Really.

When Supraworld is done? I dunno! But I made this graphic with a vague estimate so you get an idea where we're at.
When the Fundamentals and Act 1 are done we can basically start playtesting up to that point, which would happen in the form of Early Access here on Steam.

Liking this post decreases development time by 1 minute.

-David

Today I have some screenshots for you from inside the level editor.

The development of Supraworld is now going for roughly 2 years and we're not as far as I had hoped but the quality is great! Remember, Supraland 1 was already finished after 18 months.

But Supraland was kinda rushed, not expecting to sell more than 10000 units. Way over a million players later we now have a team of hardcore Supraland fans working on Supraworld and I couldn't be happier about those guys.
There is so much love going into all the details of Supraworld, you will be able to feel that everywhere.

We're maybe putting a bit too much effort into a lot of systems even though we only need them once or twice. But we're trying to make the game moddable so you can easily build your own levels with our assets and tools. We're trying to make all the little placeable gameplay scripts easy to use and I even put effort into making them look good in the editor, the things that no player ever sees.

It won't be Mario-Maker-easy to use, it's too complex for that. It's not a casual thing for everyone; you really have to mean it but then you can create your own Supraworlds and share them.
The main menu is supposed to have a "Custom Levels" category for this, but I guess it's one of those things that will be added after launch as it's not our primary focus of course but we always have it in mind when creating new things.

Some of our little scripts in use:
We're mostly done creating all the fundamental systems, which took us almost 2 years, so we can focus more and more on the actual game experience. Creating the world is the quick part really; the systems take all the time. So I expect development to speed up a lot.

This fluffy red guy has a huge fan:
I would like to talk so much about all the cool ideas we put into Supraworld, but we're making a huge surprise party for you all, so you really want to go in blind.

You can't even imagine what the solution to this will be:
My biggest development worry overal is the performance. The whole Unreal Engine 5 thing with its amazing lighting looks great on Youtube videos, but in reality it's not so perfect as it's quite demanding and many players don't have the latest hardware. There are 3 things I'm considering:

- Unreal Engine 5 is still improving, we're hoping for it to just perform better on its own over time
- Player's average hardware will get better until we release
- We might just need to offer 2 options: Raytraced and the old lightmap system. The latter would be a bunch of additional work and look less fancy but maybe it's necessary. We'll see.

Random supra meme in the middle of the post:
Wishlist wise Supraworld is doing great. We're about to hit 40000 and the magic number to cross, to be taken seriously in the Steam algorithm, is only 10000. This is your call to action if you haven't wishlisted it yet:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/

Meanwhile the FAQ still applies for all the questions you probably have: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1869290/discussions/0/3843305689136654170/



The whole Six Inches Under on Console and Gamepass thing was not handled well and I'm super dissapointed. It's all fine now, but the launch was really messed up.
We ourselves have almost nothing to do with those ports, that's why it's especially painful when something that broken is released in your name. We had no worries because they handled the Supraland 1 ports super well.
The huge problem was that saving and loading basically didn't work at all. The game went through QA and it was all fine, and then someone made a last minute change that was so fundamental that it broke it all. Many months later it was finally fixed, and that took way too long as well, but the launch is the moment where you get the big attention, especially on Gamepass, which is very big for us to be in.
Really sorry to everyone affected by this mess. We'll be much more careful in the future.


-David

PS: Liking this post speeds up development, obviously.

1. We got the storepage up for Supraworld. There are lots of brand new screenshots to give you a glimpse.
Please don't forget to hit the Wishlist button to help support the game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869290/Supraworld/

2. Tomorrow (Thursday, 18. May 2023) don't forget to watch the Humble Games Showcase. It could be supra interesting: https://t.co/KoqCLVh73e