I know the game is pre-alpha but I was shocked when it ended becuase I wanted to play it for a while longer but I think it's looking great and I can't wait to see how the game develops. Are you going to have different themes? Gardens/Sci fi/Frozen landscape or maybe even an underwater adventure. Extra weapons? I can't wait
We want to extend the current map of the pre-alpha further down the development line when the two missing major features are complete.
Yeah the pre-alpha is ~30 minutes long if you don't know anything (that's why the signs are there to help people understand - only a pre-alpha solution), but only takes ~5-7 minutes for people who already know everything. The Pre-Alpha is just like a demo for us to show the game to people and get more feedback on it (esp. from gaming community). We got plenty of feedback from fellow developers / game-industry people, when we presented it. But wanted to know how people we don't know react to it :). Plus, the "Time Shimmer" is quite hard to show off with pictures - so making it playable was just a choice we made.
There won't be actual "levels" - more like one interconnected canyon - so additional themes come only as part of the canyon / left-behind otter civilization stuff.
But the canyon you have just explored is supposed to be flooded by water which is currently hold back by pumps. Thus allowing you to swim through the level and explore it freely with a different tone to it :) So to test if the tech works for that - we will make the pre-alpha canyon also floodable. (it will most likely be the new end of the pre-alpha, spoilers)
The second major feature is the combat system. Currently the input is unbound for your weapon as we are just starting out doing our own animations - including attack animations. Most of them are placeholders or retargets of ue4's third-person animations.
Everything can change of course during the events of development. If we figure it ain't fun / good enough - we need to change some things :)