Inkarn8 The First Pages Launches Friday
Summary
Inkarn8 announces The First Pages launching publicly on itch.io Friday 4 September. The announcement covers expanded testing access, ongoing development toward The Cursed Codex demo, and plans to grow the Game Tester group for future Steam testing. Community members are asked to play, comment, share detailed feedback in #feedback and wishlist the game when the Steam page goes live.
๐ Inkarn8: The First Pages launches this Friday!
Hey !
We had an incredible response to our call for early testers for Inkarn8: The First Pages. Unfortunately, we couldn't bring everyone into this first round, but the testing has given us some really useful feedback and also helped us test the processes we'll be using as we build towards our Steam launch.
So we've decided it's time to open the book a little wider.
Inkarn8: The First Pages will launch publicly on itch.io this Friday, 4 September. ๐
We'll be announcing it to our wider audience throughout the week, but since you're here in the Discord, you get to hear about it first.
๐ What happens after The First Pages?
Inkarn8 is still very much in active development, and roguelites need a lot of testing, iteration and balancing. The team is already working through feedback from this first testing round while continuing development on classes, actions, effects, artifacts and the larger Inkarn8: The Cursed Codex demo.
As we move towards our Steam page and begin testing more of the full game, we'll gradually expand the @Game Tester ๐งช group and run more controlled tests with the community.
If you'd like to be considered for those future rounds, the best way to get involved is:
Play The First Pages on itch.io โ leave a comment with your thoughts โ share any more detailed feedback with us in #feedback โ wishlist Inkarn8 once our Steam page goes live.
We're going to prioritise community members who are genuinely playing the game, sharing useful feedback and helping us make Inkarn8 better. We want early access to future builds to reward the people actively helping shape the game.
๐ฎ Launch event?
One of our community members also suggested getting everyone together for a small launch event. We're based in New Zealand, which makes timezones interesting ๐
, but we'd love to see whether there's enough interest.
If you'd be keen, jump into #inkarn8-general and let us know your timezone and what sort of time would work for you.
If launch day itself proves difficult, we could also organise a follow-up community play session / AMA with the team after everyone has had a chance to play.
The First Pages open this Friday. ๐
See you inside the Codex.
