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Suitable for the publication of the latest update 2.0 for the space sandbox Avorion we have been able to carry an interview with developer boxes. We have the sympathetic team that his roots have beaten in Erlangen, and surveyed for the importance of the community and the advantages of the early access publication.
game: For gamers who do not know your game yet: What is Avorion? Boxelware: Avorion is a Coop Space Sandbox in which players can build their own spaceships and then explore the galaxy, fight, lot, levels, remove, trade, and make this whole cool space game cram. The cool is that the tree mode allows extremely detailed builds that, unlike about Minecraft, Space Engineers or Empyrion, are not dependent on a voxelgrid. This does not mean that building is super complicated, but you can already assemble a ship with just a few clicks. Or you can grab one of the more than 10,000 from the workshop. You are already looking forward to building a lot of it at Avorion, but in addition you can do a heap of things with your home-built ship: Experience struggles, operate trade or diplomacy, reduce asteroids that explore the procedural galaxy. Or prepare you along the story in the center of the galaxy to save them from an alien threat.
game: The feedback that you have got on Steam so far is predominantly positive (92% of almost 8,900 votes cast). Wait or are you surprised that your project is so well accepted by the players? Boxelware: Haha, initially that was pretty overwhelming! But now we know what people are so appreciated by Avorion: the freedom that is easy here. Of course, this does not mean that we do not look forward to every positive review (because we still do that!), But the initial surprise has meanwhile relaxed.
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game: You give regular status updates to Steam. How important is the exchange with the community? Boxelware: with the community stands and falls every game. It is important to us that we are transparent and keep people informed. Of course we can not publish every little detail, but we regularly communicate the direction in which the game should move according to our vision, and therefore. Of course, this is always part of publishing bad news, but after we always justify them in detail, these are still not over as catastrophes.
game: How much feedback from the community flows into the development or planning of new patches? Did you have made serious changes to game systems based on player feedback? Boxelware: We take the feedback of the community very seriously. But some suggestions and changes also contradict our personal vision, and of course, some suggestions of the players contradict themselves. That's why it's never possible that we integrate everything. What we then try to read between the lines, which would actually be necessary for changes so that the problem underlying can be solved. Often, players propose things that only seem to solve problems, while the problem underlying consists and then just occurs elsewhere. Here it is important to recognize such situations and tackle the actual problems. Due to such feedback, we have already made a lot of changes, such as the docking feature published with the Black Market DLC.
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game: Did the Early Access phase be paid for you? Which teachings can you draw from the pre-release publication? Was it backward the right decision to use this form of publication? Boxelware: Absolutely! We learned how to work properly with player feedback (S.O.) and Avorion is ideally suited as a sandbox game ideal for this form of pieces of publication and further development.
game: You have so far waived a publisher for Avorion and puts this in your own. How come? But not only to save money - after all, an experienced publisher could help at the next steps, right?
Boxerware: is interesting: We were originally searched for a publisher for Avorion, but then after some talks actually received by the publishers the advice: You know what you are doing, you do not have to go with the development. That was actually baked me then, V.a. Because it came from several independent positions. Of course, after we also had more freedom, we decided: We do the self! ... and continue excellently with it.
game: Are there elements (whether technically, content or mechanical) to which you do not have cranny so far? Boxelware: MMO-Style! Well, but also because we just do not have the capacities (say: money) and because Avorion is not the right game for that. Otherwise Stealth. This is one of the most widely desired topics that we are still unsure whether it is the right way for the game, and whether the created value for the game justifies development costs.
game: What is the biggest challenge for you as indie developers? Boxelware: Visibility. There are so many games, and there are more daily that it is extremely lightweight. We are lucky enough that Avorion spreads very well through oral propaganda and we have a quite steady position. But here it is always uncertain what the future actually brings.
game: Where is the trip with Avorion after the update 2.0? Boxelware: We promised to support the GAME at least 2 years after 1.0 release, and we will do that too! We also plan the one or the other content expansion that will probably be published as DLC. After that, Well - we'll see that. But we have a lot of ideas that justion in his current technical condition just no longer gives ...
game: Will you be able to play Avorion at some point on consoles? Boxelware: After talking about technical constitution, that's a very good question. The answer is: unfortunately no! Unfortunately we do not have the opportunity to make console ports in our engine architecture. Apart from these technical hurdles, we have already tried to convert the control to controllers, but had to see after several months that nothing will become. Avorion is and remains developed for mouse and keyboard, and there is no way to shake much anymore.
game: Do you already have plans for the time to Avorion? What Plant Boxelware next? Boxelware: At least I (and I think the majority of the team is true to me) need after almost 10 years Avorion development (I've started a pre-2012 as a hobby) first time a wallpaper change. It will be quite certain something completely different.
game: Thank you for answering the questions and continue to success with Avorion !!!!! Boxelware: many thanks and all the best !!
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