New Year New Bean!!!

It’s time for a roadmap of what we’re hoping to bring you in 2023! I’m not allowed to spill the beans (hehe) on all the secrets but I think there’s a lot to get hyped about.

Confession: I was supposed to publish this on Jan 31 but I totally forget heh.

First off – we want to make playing Among Us an easier, more intuitive experience. This means big focus on adding multiple updates to the UI and UX (user interface and user experience, respectively) of the game. Cleaning up the account merging flow, updating the store to be easier to navigate, making it easier to see how you can report a toxic player… these are all things we want to work on, and more. We don’t want anything to get in the way of you and your tasks.

Digging further into our roadmap, here are some further detail for you (but I can’t spoil anything so be patient with meeeeee):

• Map 5:

  ?Yep, this is finally the year we get you a whole new map to explore! I can’t tell you what the theme is, but I CAN say it’ll have all new tasks for you to figure out, come with more cosmetics, and have fun surprises hidden around. We put a TON of love into our design process for these maps – you’ll notice that all our maps often have tinyyy details in them to make them feel satisfying and fun to play, if you take a look around. (My favorite details is the little bone anatomy image in the Airship.) We don’t want to skimp out on anything, so we’re excited to finally be gearing this map up for you to play later in the year!
  

• Improved Matchmaking:

  ?With Hide n Seek mode, new roles, and the customization of our lobbies, we realize that many of you want to be able to find the games you want to play more easily and quickly. That’s why a big focus this year will be on adding features to matchmaking to ensure you are closer to the type of spacebean experience you want.
  

• Quickchat Rework:

  ?Quickchat is a huge part of the game experience, and we want to refine the dialogue options while also making it easier to navigate. We’re always reviewing how you all use our features and systems, so don’t think we aren’t paying attention to you! <3
  

• Collabs:

  ?AwwWWWWWWW yesSSSSSS. Collabs are SO FUN for us to do, and we love seeing your reactions to the chaotic things we get up to with other studios. We have some big ones planned for this year, and I think you’re gonna freak out it’s so cool. (Maybe I am freaking out right now.) (AHHHH.)
  

• More??????:

  ?Alright so I’m going to tell you some things we would love to do at some point in the future BUT ONLY IF WE HAVE EXTRA DEVELOPMENT TIME, CAN TEST IT, WE AREN’T DYING, MAKE SURE IT DOESN’T BREAK EVERYTHING, AND IS APPROVED BY THE HIGHER POWERS IN TIME (e.g. platform partners). OK? SO THIS IS NOT A PROMISE IT WILL HAPPEN. I swear if one of y’all are like “uh but you promised in the dev log this would be out in 2023” NO I DID NOT. THIS IS ONLY IF WE HAVE EXTRA TIME. Okay anyway – so! If we have extra time and are able to, we would loveeeeee to add some more new roles into the game. We’ve already seen the fun you’ve been having with the Shapeshifter, Guardian Angel, Engineer, and Scientist, and how it creates a whole new way to play the game. We have a lot of other ideas up in our brain space, and hope we can share that with you at some point! Another thing we hope to work on are Friends List improvements so you’re able to do much more with the people you call “friends” (that would stab you in the back the minute you’re an Impostor but whatever).
  

Okay that’s enough random yelling from me! Thanks for reading through this entire dev log (because you definitely did right..? RIGHT?) and hope the beginning of 2023 has been treating you well! I am personally already dying and in a pit of despair but let’s not talk about that.

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Victoria

翻譯：（機翻）

新年新豆子! ! ！是時候為我們希望在2023年帶給你們的東西制定一個路線圖了！雖然我不被允許泄露所有的秘密，但是我認為有很多事情值得大肆宣傳。說實話:，我本來應(yīng)該在1月31日出版這篇報告的，但是我完全忘了?！?】

首先，我們想讓游戲界面變得更簡單，更直觀。這意味著游戲的 UI 和 UX (分別是用戶界面和用戶體驗) 需要更新。我們會清理帳戶合并流程，更新商店，使其更容易導航，使我們更容易看到你如何可以舉報一個不友好的船員... 這些都是我們想做的工作，等等。我們不希望任何事情妨礙你和你的任務(wù)。深入挖掘我們的路線圖，這里有一些進一步的細節(jié)給你(但是我不能破壞任何東西，所以請耐心地對待我) :

地圖5:?

是的，這終于是我們給你一個全新的地圖去探索的一年！我不能告訴你的主題是什么，但我可以說，它將有所有新的任務(wù)，你想出來，帶來更多的化妝品，并有有趣的驚喜隱藏在周圍。我們在這些地圖的設(shè)計過程中投入了大量的愛——你會注意到，如果你環(huán)顧四周，我們所有的地圖通常都有微小的細節(jié)，使它們感到滿意和有趣。(我最喜歡的細節(jié)是飛艇上的小骨骼解剖圖。)我們不想節(jié)省任何東西，所以我們很高興終于加速這張地圖，為您發(fā)揮在今年晚些時候！

改進的匹配:?

隨著隱藏尋找模式，新的角色，和我們的大堂定制，我們意識到，你們中的許多人希望能夠找到你想要玩的游戲，更容易和快速。這就是為什么今年更新的一大重點將是在匹配中添加特性，以確保您更接近您想要的 spacebean[太空豆]?體驗類型。

Quickchat Rework[我也不知道怎么翻]:

Quickchat 是游戲體驗的重要組成部分，我們希望在改進對話選項的同時，讓它更容易導航。我們一直在回顧你們是如何使用我們的特性和系統(tǒng)的，所以不要以為我們沒有關(guān)注你們！< 3

合作[聯(lián)動]者:

歐歐歐好耶耶耶耶耶耶！合作對于我們來說是如此有趣（我看是因為賺了不少），我們想看到你的反應(yīng)，混亂的事情，我們得到了與其他工作室合作的機會。今年我們計劃了一些大型活動，我想你們會很驚訝的，因為這酷斃了！(也許我現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)嚇壞了)(啊哈哈哈)

一些？？？？？

好了，我要告訴你一些我們將來想做的事情，但是只有在我們有額外的開發(fā)時間的情況下，我們才能測試它，我們的游戲不會死去，不過確保它不會打破所有的東西，并且在時間上得到更高的權(quán)力(例如平臺合作伙伴)的認可。好嗎？所以這不是一個能實現(xiàn)的承諾。我發(fā)誓，如果你們中的一個像“嗯，但是你在開發(fā)日志中承諾這將在2023年出來”不，我沒有。除非我們有多余的時間。好吧，不管怎樣！要是我們有額外的時間和能力，我們希望增加一些新的角色到游戲中。我們已經(jīng)看到了你玩變形者，守護天使，工程師和科學家的樂趣，以及它如何創(chuàng)造了一個全新的方式來玩游戲。在我們的大腦里還有很多其他的想法，希望我們能在某個時候與你分享！我們希望改進的另一件事是好友列表，這樣你就可以和你稱之為“朋友”的人一起做更多的事情(這會在你當冒名頂替者的時候在你背后捅刀子，但是無論如何就是這樣)。