For those new to our community, Jump Ship is a co-op PvE where you are the crew of a space ship. We're thrilled to share some insights from our recent office playtest.

Last Friday, we had an office playtest for Jump Ship. Our goal was to evaluate the game's readability and how well it communicates information to new players. We want Jump Ship to be enjoyable and playable without any prior knowledge.

Big fans visiting the office

The playtest involved testing the the tutorial and one of the game's missions.

Our playtest provided valuable feedback on readability for sure, and overall status:

• The game is incredibly fun! The players were laughing throughout the session :)
  
• The chaos level is currently too high, leading to some confusion.
  
• Some items and their uses weren't immediately clear to players.

Based on these findings, we're already working on:

• Refining the chaos: We want the game to be chaotic, but in the right way. Players should understand why events occur and how to take action. We're improving the HUD to highlight critical information and provide more context for items in hand or in use.
  
• Balancing intensity: We're reducing simultaneous chaotic events to prevent overwhelming players.
  
• Clearer item descriptions: We're rewriting descriptions to be more direct and informative.

We're planning another playtest soon to evaluate these improvements. Our focus is on smoothing out the gameplay experience and making it easier for new players to jump in.

The feedback has been instrumental in shaping these priorities. We're committed to creating the best space crew experience possible and we're excited to invite more community testers eventually and hear what you think!

Do you already have ideas on how we can make the game more accessible to new players? Let us know :)

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm. Together, we're creating an amazing universe!

Hello everyone!

We're thrilled to be back from our summer vacation, recharged and ready to jump back into development. 🌞

We've been hard at work and are excited to share some of the new animations, VFX, and game features we’ve been working on. There’s still more in the pipeline, but they’re not quite ready to be shown just yet.

Our plan is to start internal playtesting with friends and family by the end of August. After that, we’ll take some time to incorporate their feedback before inviting a small group of external gamers to join in. As the game becomes more stable, we’ll gradually expand this group further.

We’re really excited about what’s coming, and we can’t wait to share more with you soon!

Please note: everything is a work in progress and subject to change.

We recently created a new revive animation. Here is draft. How do you revive your downed friend? With some good ol' magic!


Here is a compilation of some new VFX systems we've implemented.

• In the first scene is your ship is being wrecked. You can see how everything inside start to go crazy, and then you see the whole ship explodes with a classic From Software ending.
  
• The second scene is the loading screen when traveling from one destination to another.
  
• The third scene shows one of the big ships you'll encounter doing an Oppenheimer.