RE: 🍉 [MELN] 1UP Operator Lab Report: eXode

Thank you for this excellent post!
Happily reblogged!

It's true that since the food demonstration on graphic colonization in December last year, all 35 developer logs until June were instead sharing progress on a lot of topics - from EXODE identity (logo) to work on a gameplay mode (EXODE Missions) to cards coming to beta contracts to new tutorials - but aside from tutorials and website, players could not experience the rest!

Haha as you guess this is to address the stagnant note! :D

But you are absolutely correct.

In hindsight this is also when I recruited and trained more people, a busy period that ended a couple of weeks ago and partially ended last summer, exactly when things started to kick again on gameplay.

January-March were focused on ships and space (ship modules in our beta contracts mean that we have refined our space equipment concepts) but more importantly a first draft on player shops (and player-made currencies!). This concept once refined enough will be a major leap forward in Web3 exode content, the ideas tested there are very positive... acccording to the biased person I am! But that's still to come out as a playable content.

Our earlier work was about making & testing a gaming and staking draft (EXODE Missions) but in the end it was felt too complex as a gameplay. The idea of a player commander and other players staking cards to that person in 2325 is interesting. But it's too "delegated" and we wanted something with a broader audience. In the end we picked EXODE Factions to come out instead!

EXODE Factions will be a more accessible and larger-audience-capable gameplay that is exactly what we need to make sure new players are not "overwhelmed with what EXODE proposes"! and your guides will help players too to get into the full EXODE experience.

Thank you again for the guide.

We could not work on EXODE Factions before as we intensified work on colonization since August and the C3 console ;and we could only give a glimpse of the colonization gameplay loop before Black Friday!

But we are thrilled with Talent+ and the way it develops uniqueness in collections. Things are coming together!