Where next for Nestables? Post Pre-Alpha Update.
It has been an exciting few months for the Nestables team. Being able to finally show the community the development progress so far has been extremely rewarding. The public pre-alpha for holders of Founder’s Tokens and Nestables was a great success with over 400 hundred players participating.
The pre-alpha has given us vital feedback into what the community thinks of the game so far, confirming that the project is on the right track. It genuinely surprised us that so many people were willing to purchase Nestables and Founder’s Tokens to be able to participate, this is not something that we had expected to happen given the cost of these items on the Enjin Marketplace.
So, where next for Nestables?
The feedback that we gathered from the pre-alpha was fantastic. As a result, we were able to roll out a number of updates during the pre-alpha to address bug reports and other gameplay issues. You can see all of the feedback on our Trello Board. Overall, in the final feedback survey, the community gave us an average score of 8.1 out of 10 for the current game.
For those of you that have followed our development progress since the beginning, you will have realised during the pre-alpha that there is a significant amount of gameplay and features to still be added to Nestables.
Our final survey also revealed that the most anticipated gameplay features to still be added are:
- AI system for the Nestables
- Nest visitation system
- Event system
- More resources
Since the end of the pre-alpha, we have already started work on this development with the first refactoring of the code. Refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code — changing the factoring — without changing its external behavior. The aim is to improve the design, structure, and implementation of the software. Based on the feedback we received, the briefs for the most popular gameplay features are being finished up and work has also begun on the ability to be able to visit friend’s Nests which will take a significant amount of time due to its technically complex nature.
We have a lot of plans for Nestables and want to keep most of them as a surprise for now. As a result, we will be going back to our monthly development update! You can expect the next post to drop around this time next month.
For those that hold a Founder’s Token and Nestable, you can still download the pre-alpha version of the game and check it out. We will not be patching any further bugs for this version at this stage.
Finally, we have some exciting news to share. Many of you would be aware that we have planned to implement our very own Nestables Marketplace. This is critical not only for the monetisation strategy for the game but also for the community to be able to sell and buy the blockchain assets that make up a core part of the game. While the Enjin marketplace is great, it is not designed specifically for Nestables. Work has begun on the marketplace with the first UI work completed.
