Hi everyone,
First off, the nominations for Steam's game awards are live! It might be hubris to try for a GOTY nomination, but we have a decent shot for a runner-up at least! Click above to help out, thank you!
In other news, our first major content update will be workshop support. Things are moving along. What we have in so far is:
- You can browse the workshop, upload, and download worlds.
- Any worlds you download will be added to the main game's open world, seamlessly, like any other base game area.
- You can play co-op with workshop levels, the client automatically downloads all workshop levels the server is running.
What remains before launch is bugfixing various issues with the above, along with the "workshop" orb and unlockable cosmetics I talked about in the last community post.
If you want to test the workshop beta join the Discord and check pinned messages in the EPN level editor channel. Discord Invite Link
If you don't have / don't want a Discord but still want to try leave a comment and I can copy+paste the pinned msg here.
As a preview of whats going on in that channel, one member Positato shared both their concept art for levels alongside their workshop uploads, check it out!
As for a timeline on when workshop support will be final, I'm still hoping for by the end of the year, but as a side-note I'll be doing a couple of weeks doing flood clean-up work in Asheville, North Carolina in December, and I'm not quite sure yet how much work I'll be able to do on my laptop there. So there is some chance workshop gets delayed but the beta is there for those who want it now!
Thank you for reading! And please consider voting for EPN for GOTY!
-Matt