We're coming to Steam Early Access on May 9th 2023!

• We didn't end up with enough video submissions from our community to include in this announcement video, so what I'm planning to do is hold onto the ones we've received and do another round of submissions when we're announcing our version 1.0 launch!
• Steam Early Access will be sometime in 2023, which should give us plenty of time to get the amount of content we're targeting for early access launch! This will include 3 full biomes of gameplay! Some of our stretch goals and community designs will probably be completed during early access so we can get more feedback on them!
• We will have beta access for kickstarter backers who backed at the Weekend Trip tier or above before our early access date, once we have our first candidate build for early access. I'm aiming to have ready by the end of this year and I will lock down the timing of our beta once we've confirmed that is ready! We're planning to use this to identify bugs, and confirm that the early access build is meeting your excitement for the game!
• Based on the success of the beta, we will hopefully spend our development time in 2023 working on additional content that will be added to the game as early access updates, so there's interesting things to check out and return to the game for until we eventually hit version 1.0! If during beta, we identify high priority changes we'd want to make to the initial early access build before that goes live, we may end up focusing more heavily on that instead! How often we'll be able to add updates during early access, whether that's weekly (unlikely!), monthly, or a longer stretch of time, will depend on how much content we're able to make in 2023 to stay ahead of that cadence, and how much additional effort we decide to put towards improving the initial early access build!

Game Devs of Color Expo is this weekend!