Although, Len's Island is not currently finished and in some areas lacks the high-end level of polish, optimization and ease of access features that come with more expensive games. The early-access price is considerably low given the amount of playtime and features the game has. “Prices may increase slightly over early access and onto the full release, although Len's Island will always be an indie game with indie pricing. Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? There's a whole lot to do within the Early Access version of Len's Island and it's only going to get better.” Whether that path is building and decorating enormous castles and villas, creating a thriving farming complex, exploring the caverns and fighting enemies, or just living a simple life chopping down the trees and trading with villagers.
There’s little to no specific goals or directions, you have the freedom to carve your own pathway forward. “It’s an intense dungeon-crawler with a deep and complex combat system, mixed with a relaxing farming and building sim inside an open-world setting. What is the current state of the Early Access version? The community has been heard loud and clear and we are planning to add co-op multiplayer support for the full release.” Along with adding a lot more building and farming content, as well as more worlds and islands to explore. The main points of interest for future development are: Detailed quests and NPC interactions, expanding the dungeons with more enemy types, more bosses and eventually adding the final boss. “We are planning to expand the game in several areas throughout early access. How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? The timeframe for development heavily depends on the initial success of the early access and what resources we have available to expand the team and speed up development.” Utilizing early access is how we can build our development team to finish Len's Island without needing to comprise in any areas.”Īpproximately how long will this game be in Early Access? This is a project funded and published by ourselves with help from our successful Kickstarter campaign. Getting to the point of calling Len's Island finished will take more time, more developers, and more resources. We have completed the baseline of our vision for Len's Island and now wish to develop Len's Island into the fully-fledged title we are hoping it to be. Over the years the team has expanded to two full-time developers and some part-time help with SFX, music and graphics programming. The development journey for Len's Island started around 4 years ago, being a solo project for the lead developer, Julian Ball. Early-Access enables us to grow the studio over time and expand our vision for the full release of Len's Island. “Len's Island is a massive game made by a tiny team of two developers.