Working towards the end goal (Patreon)

Hi, I finished the new randomly generated map which I started a couple weeks ago. I was finished with it much sooner than I expected, and I'm very pleased with the result. I'm still not going to show what it looks like since it feels like I'd be spoiling something cool, especially since I'm looking towards doing a larger playtest of the game. I still don't know when that will be, since I want to make another bunch of enemy types and fix a ton of bugs. I'm almost to the point of seeing the game as a finished product and looking for what's missing.

It would make a lot of sense to release this game in Early Access mode on Steam (though I haven't done research on that), since I've realized it's inevitably going to be rough around the edges and is begging for a long series of updates. There's many features that could be deepened and infinite content to be added. It really feels like releasing the game is just the beginning.

Something else I did recently was model and add in a bunch of new 'scrap items'. I want there to be a lot of variety in the scrap you can find while scavenging, as if you were searching through a dumpster in real life. I want at least some of these items to have functionality to make them even more unique. Maybe you'll even want to keep some instead of selling them. (And there's a pair of binoculars, which will be bought from the store.)