It's been now exactly 1 month since we released the game on Early Access. Our general idea was to get response from community and overall to make a better game. We wanted to figure out in what direction to go with the features or storyline, should we have more story, or less, should we lean towards arcade missions only or adding more juice with other features and things like that. In other words, we wanted to get a sense what is the right mix for this game. Up to this point we have released 6 updates with various fixes and features based on the active feedback from you guys. That’s what we plan to do in the future as well. We have gathered a lot of feedback which came to us via discussion forums, direct emails and most of it on private chat here on Steam. After analyzing all that, we came up with roadmap for full release of this game and what would happen next. Before game converts to full release two more updates are planned, #7 and #8.

Update #7 (ETA by end of March 2015)

linux version of the game

Update #8 (ETA by mid April 2015)

full gamepad configuration / calibration settings keyboard key mapping settings

Full Release (ETA by end of April 2015)

We will be adding additional layer of depth in the game, and we plan to do that by introducing quests. Quests are actual high level goals for a player to accomplish in order to get some kind of reward. What’s more important, quests will be story driven where more active role is given to Space Station Commanders. There will be new section on every Space Station where you will be able to check status of active quests and monitor your progress. The whole idea around quests is that if you want to follow the story you can do so and go in specific order accomplish quest by quest, if you want just to play arcade game, you can pick your own course through the game and play it that way. When we decided to introduce quests, next natural step is to tie them with rewards which will come in form of Steam Achievements. Routes between stations will stay as they are except arcade missions itself will be redesigned to extent to avoid such repetition as it is noticed right now. During this final stage we have decided to start localizing game into other languages and we are doing that with great help from the community. So far we plan to cover following languages for full release:

• Russian
• Chinese
• German
• Polish
• Spanish
• Turkish
• Hrvatski
• Bosanski
• Arabic

It is possible that some of these languages won’t be available in the version which is called “full release” as we depend on availability of translators, but we will make sure these languages become available via updates which will follow after the release. There are more languages we plan to cover in future updates, languages we listed above are the ones where we have arranged and organized people who will help us. We are still looking for volunteers to help us cover other languages. To summarize all the new elements we will introduce to full release of the game:

• full content as planned in start with total of 60 arcade missions / routes
• quests system with over 60 quests
• refreshed arcade missions
• Steam Achievements
• additional languages

What happens after full release?

Our plan is to release at least one DLC by August 2015 and hopefully another one by November 2015. That will depend on many factors but mainly on resources available on our end because... ...there is new game we are working on, Solar Division, and that game is heavily related to Zotrix. There will be an interesting interaction between these two games. Stay tuned and thanks a lot for the support and feedback, it means a world to us. Zotrix Development Team

[ 2015-03-18 16:46:44 CET ] [ Original post ]