Goffy Clash: The Demo Lands This Month
Goffy Clash has been in closed pre-alpha for a while now, shaped by a small group of testers who put up with the rough edges and told us the truth about them. That phase has done its job. The demo version of the game launches at the end of this month.
This is the first time Goffy Clash opens up beyond the closed test group. It is also the first online multiplayer game the studio has shipped anything of, which makes it a real milestone rather than just another build.
What is new since pre-alpha
Three systems went in that change how the game actually plays session to session, rather than just how it looks.
- A store, so progression has somewhere to go and what you earn has something to spend on.
- A rank system, so matches carry weight past the final hit and there is a reason to queue again.
- Character select, so you pick who you bring into the brawl instead of taking what you are given.
Each of these came out of watching pre-alpha sessions. Matches were fun and then simply ended, with nothing carried forward. The store, ranks and character select are the answer to that, and they are the foundation the rest of the progression will be built on.
Where this goes next
The demo is a checkpoint, not the finish line. More is planned to make the game better, and much of it will be decided by what the demo shows us once a wider group is actually playing.
A demo is not a smaller version of the finished game. It is the fastest way to find out what the finished game should be.
Expect rough edges. Multiplayer brought a whole category of problems the studio had not dealt with before, from networking and matchmaking to synchronisation and server stability, and some of them will still be visible. Tell us when you hit one. That feedback is the entire point of putting the demo out.
Follow along
The launch will be announced on our Discord first, which is also the fastest place to report anything you run into. If you want to be in the first wave when the demo goes live, that is where to be.
