Imperium Empires Development Blog — March 2022
March has been another busy month for us. As our development team expands, we need more working space — so we’ve moved to our new office!
We have also been experiencing a hard time as many of the developers and artists got COVID, which has impacted our development timeline. However, we still managed to deliver everything we promised for Q1 2022 — including our official NFT marketplace and pre-alpha game demo.
Game Development
Pre-Alpha Game Demo
Some of you should have added tried our pre-alpha game demo. The main purpose of the demo is to (i) test our server data and loading to ensure data synchronization with low latency; and (ii) showcase our game development progress. As Imperium Empires is a real-time MMO game, it is important to ensure the server load can handle player traffic simultaneously.
In fact, we have received overwhelmingly positive feedback about our game demo. We are glad that you are happy with our graphics and gameplay. There are also lots of good suggestions about our game and we have read all of the comments on our discord channels. The Pre-Alpha is a demo in which a lot of features and mechanics are yet to be implemented. We’ve seen suggestions such as healing, dodging attacks, manual fire mode and so on. We will consider all of these suggestions, against the backdrop that Imperium Empires is a MMO game and we expect there would be lots of ships fighting at the same time. We have to make sure that there is enough visual clarity and the mechanics are not too complicated during large scale fights.
Alpha Testing
We are working on developing more game mechanics for the alpha game testing. Some of the upcoming new features that are expected to be in the Alpha are target selection and skill system. Target selection allows players to switch enemy targets they are attacking, and the skill system allows players to use skills that boost certain stats of the spaceships for a short period of time. These features aim to provide players with more abilities to control their spaceship fleets with more options.
Web Development
Pre-alpha Registration Page
We launched the pre-alpha registration page on 1st April, and received lots of applications! We started sending out the pre-alpha game demo passes and we will continue to roll out more spots depending on the server load.
NFT marketplace and Inventory update
We have also launched the NFT marketplace and updates to the Inventory UI. We added the filter functions because we want our players to be able to manage their collections easily.
We received lots of feedback from our community about our NFT marketplace and we are working on adding new features. We hear your feedback and aim to add more features to the Marketplace in the future versions. We will be adding a dashboard showing recently listed and recently sold items in the next update of NFT marketplace.
Summary
We had a busy March and we managed to deliver all of the items on our Q1 2022 roadmap, including our pre-alpha game demo and NFT marketplace. Again, thank you for your continuous support in Imperium Empires.
