Greetings! For those who don’t know, Adera is a point and click story from HitPoint Studios. It is an episodic adventure available on Windows 8 PCs and RT devices, and is Xbox LIVE enabled. To date, there have been three episodes released for the first season.
This weekend I had a chance to speak with
HitPoint Studios at their PAX East booth and here’s what they told me about the episodes and the rest of the season:
- Episode 4 is completed and currently in certification, expect it to be another 1-2 weeks before release. They had a playable demo but I didn’t want to spoil it so I held off on that.
- Episode 4 will be around the same length and the same price as episode 3. They were done this way to get the content out sooner (they are a smaller developer so it takes time…see point #4).
- Episode 5 will be the biggest episode yet and will be the conclusion of this season (not 7 episodes as previously reported).
- Episodes generally have a 2-3 month development process.
- No details on when season 2 will take place, but expect a decent break.
- Episodic Content for them has proven to be very successful and has sold really well. HitPoint was surprised by the reaction to their content and is pleased to see so many are enjoying it.
- HitPoint also develop the Disney Fairies game on Win8 and are making that episodic as well (not Adera news but ya).
I thanked them for the game as I personally like it. I don’t mind paying them the price of an episode. They have a 2-3 month devlopment cycle, and they aren’t a huge company. They are in Massachusettes and only have 46 full time employees working on many games.
Hope you enjoyed these few tid bits of extra insight and information, I know I did! Keep on a lookout for Episode 4 shortly!
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