It isn’t Temtem 2, however it’ll “try brand-new things we would like to see in a theoretical Temtem 2”
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Crema, the developers of much-liked Pokemon-like Temtem, are teasing a brand-new untitled video game embeded in the exact same universe – the mystifying Project Downbelow. It isn’t Temtem: Swarm, aka Temtem Vampire Survivors, nor is it Temtem 2. It will “attempt out brand-new things we would enjoy to see in a theoretical Temtem 2”, consisting of a brand-new fight system running on a “more powerful” video game engine. The tease accompanies news that Crema are making substantial modifications to Temtem as part of the video game’s upgrade 1.7 – for something, they’re eliminating the entire microtransaction system. Temtempestuous times!
All that’s from a long, however rather fascinating Steam blog site in which Crema talk about the rockier parts of Temtem’s advancement, react to a current Steam user examines reaction, and aim to the future. The video game was initial imagined as an “MMO-lite”, however in the lack of an MMO-lite tag on Steam and other stores, the designers called it an MMO rather, which has actually triggered some gamers to enter anticipating a sort of monster-catching World Of Warcraft.
The designers likewise talk about present prepare for contributing to the video game. They will not be including anymore islands and Tems due to a lack of resources and staff member, with the post keeping in mind that previous additions have actually not led to a “long-term boost in the playerbase” that would validate the labour. An excerpt:
Advancement time is restricted for a studio our size, and brand-new islands are a significant endeavor. It took the group lots of months to establish each island that was released throughout Early Access: Kisiwa, Cipanku, Arbury and the Endgame Island, Tamer’s Paradise.
Everytime we set out to produce a brand-new location we invest a great deal of resources from all groups, and a great deal of time. Whenever a brand-new island came out to the general public it was gotten with cheers and enjoyment, however all of us saw how quickly the gamers would take in the material and leave once again. Not surprisingly, the neighborhood desires brand-new islands to delight in and find, and hope they will make the video game call out to more individuals, however after extensive research study through Early Access we never ever saw a long-term boost in the playerbase after the release of a brand-new island. While islands are awfully satisfying, lots of gamers would complete a brand-new island in around 6 hours, when it had actually taken our group 9 months to make. And therefore the cycle where gamers return briefly for brand-new islands, then leave once again continues …
The designers have actually thought of including brand-new Tems to the video game as paid DLC, however fear this would develop a pay-to-win problem without actually dealing with the resource and group size problems explained above. The post likewise discuss the intricacy of including more multiplayer performance to the video game, which “develops a waterfall of negative effects”,