Where we’ve Super been, and where we’re Super going

Super Animal Royale Dev Blog #1: Reflections on what brought us to today and a peek at what’s next.

Thanks to all of your support we just hit our first 100k players, and more than 50k of you have played in the past 30 days alone! Onwards and upwards, Super Animals!

It has been about a year and a half since Chris and I quit our jobs and started working full time on Super Animal Royale, so we wanted to take a moment to step back and reflect on all the progress we’ve made together with all of you, and let you know where Super Animal Royale is headed next!

At this time last year we were still 2 months away from meeting our first pre-alpha tester, and now in less than 5 months since our Early Access debut we’ve hit our first 100k players! Despite having no ad budget to speak of, the game keeps growing faster and faster thanks to all of you. You are the most loving and supportive community we could have imagined for an online multiplayer game, and it’s thanks to your kind Steam reviews, sportsmanlike and supportive behavior in-game, and sharing with friends and strangers that we’ve hit this milestone together.

Where We’re Super Going

This week we’re debuting a new Super Animal as well as a new explosive item to kick off May! The update will be arriving this Friday, May 3rd at 12am PDT.

Super Animal World has a deep backstory that we continue to evolve, expand, and make discoverable through the points of interest and environments we add to the island, and the hints dropped in Super Animal Royale Tonight. We’ll be continuing to release major updates every 5–6 weeks that include these new points of interest, Super Animals, and story content. Recent examples of these updates include the Year of the Super Pig + Bamboo Resort Update and the Giant Eagle Landing update. We’ll also be continuing to release smaller updates every ~2 weeks that add new game mechanics, features and content.

New Super Animals, points of interest and story beats will be kept a surprise (no spoilers!) but today we’d like to share with you some of the highlight game features that are next up on our list (many of them thanks to your suggestions):

Where We’ve Super Been

Super Animal World Island has changed a lot over the course of development, and new points of interest, biomes and story-related easter eggs will continue to evolve it through Early Access!

We thought it would be fun to start with a look back at how the game has progressed through alpha, beta, and the beginning of its Early Access journey on Steam.

The original Super Animal Royale prototype as of December 2017.

Super Animal Royale Early Life: Pre-Alpha and Alpha

Super Animal Royale Beta

Super Animal Royale Early Access

Super Animal Royale Tonight

Super Animal Royale Tonight Episode 3 (April 2019)

Roughly every 2 months we release a community highlights show that features all of the top plays and funniest moments that you submitted to us, hosted by Donk Patrick and Howl Michaels. In the latest episode things didn’t go so well for your beloved hosts (not for the first time), but never fear: they’ll be back and taking new clip submissions for Episode 4 beginning in May. Each episode also hints at and reveals more and more about the island’s history and residents.

You can catch up on previous episodes in this playlist on YouTube.

See you on the island, Super Animals!

Thank you so much for joining us early in this journey and helping us spread the Super Animal Rebellion to more and more players through Early Access! If you’d like to keep up with the game, you can find it here on Steam, join us in our Discord server (it’s our main hub for everything), or follow and message us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

We seriously appreciate all the feedback you provide us so much and are always integrating the best points into our development plans, so keep the feedback coming on our subreddit (r/animalroyale) and in the feedback channel in our Discord server! And if you want to keep helping more players find our game and community, the best things you can do are leave Steam reviews, help new players learn the ropes, and of course tell people about it!