Between us‘ new card, The Airship, will be released on March 31, developer InnerSloth announced Thursday. The new card was originally unveiled in December and will be part of a free update that includes ladders, a basic billing system for moderation and the “ability to choose the room where you start”, the developer said.
Of course, there are also some new hats. Between us launched in 2018 with a single card, with two other cards added over the years, making Airship the game’s fourth playable card.
However, the game absolutely blew up in 2020 – and the success caught the developer off guard, he said in his latest update.
‘I explained it a bit in our last logbook, but Between us’ nobody expected it to be popular, and also very late in 2020, ‘the developer wrote in the update. “We already considered the game done and moved on to something else.”
And the creation of the new card took time – which is normal in game development – while the team started working again Between us, while dealing with the newfound popularity of the game. In Thursday’s update, InnerSloth went through the details of the challenges Between usa great year, including maintenance, hiring and a whole bunch of meetings.
‘In addition, creating a map and updates is not as simple as creating one aspect of the game and throwing it on the computer. “Because our game is platform independent, that means EVERYTHING has to work on as many devices as possible,” said InnerSloth. “You may have noticed that most modifications to the game only focus on a computer, because that makes development a lot easier.”
However, it’s clear that fans are excited to see new content Between us, even years in the game’s lifetime. The tweet announcing the release date of the card garnered thousands of retweets, comments and preferences within minutes. The biggest success of the game during the pandemic certainly has something to do with it – the past year has everyone’s played Between us, even politicians.