Watson's Watch Patch Notes — April 9, 2017
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
First off,
apologies on our long term silence. Things have been crazy for everyone this year which has made progress much harder and slower than what we wanted.
However we felt it was important to update you on the current status of the game. Progress is still being made, maps are still being created and polished.
Although everything is moving forward, it is moving at a much slower pace than we would like.
What Happened?
Basically, life happened. Our lives have become significantly more complicated and much more busy. Going from a lifestyle of significant amount of freetime to having a much smaller amount has caused the development time we originally had to get shoved around and sometimes missed. New jobs, new careers, new homes, new environments, new schedules, etc have left us struggling to find that dedicated time slot for Watson's Watch development.
However, we are working on our resolve to find within our complicated lives and schedules, time to work on this game.
The Future
So where are we going from here? Well, because of how things are going we are looking for ways to keep you, the player / customer / awesome person, involved in the development and rewarded for your patience.
This is why we want to get a Beta Branch of the game out. Basically this Beta would be content that we have moved on from in a development sense and more into a semi-finalized state or more playable state. This also allows you the ability to have a deeper look into how things are made and how we are moving forward as well as potentially telling us if you like or dislike the way things are being shaped before we have finalized what has been done.
Another thing the Beta will help with is our accountability to you, with you playing the more unfinished content it would be a much better motivator for us to have you involved, to let us know what works and what doesnt, etc and therefore we can move forward with new enthusiasm.
Finally, we wanted to make it clear this was never a situation of "All Early Access Games developers make something and never finish it." It has always been our intention to finish Watson' Watch (at the very least so that we can move on to other projects)! We thank you for your patience and your support and we hope that with your help we can make up for lost time and get things moving in the right direction again.
Thank you