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Tacoma developer Fullbright has decided to push back the launch of the space-based adventure game to spring 2017, the studio announced today.
Fullbright made the announcement in an email newsletter, saying that the new release window for Tacoma represents a delay of at least six months — the studio originally planned to launch the game in "mid-to-late 2016." The company explained the delay by saying that feedback from an early playtest build last summer led the team to reconsider many aspects of Tacoma.
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"After we did our big unveiling last summer we sent out a playtest build to a bunch of fellow developers we trust, took a long hard look at their feedback and our own feelings on where we were at, and decided to reexamine and rework a number of the core assumptions we'd held about the game," said Fullbright.
The developers spent a lot of time "redefining a number of elements that really needed it," and said that feedback from a newer build indicated that they made the right decision. But that extra time caused the delay to 2017. For now, Fullbright is working on "a sample of our newly-minted alterations to the core game" that it plans to show publicly this summer.
Tacoma is in development on Linux, Mac, Windows PC and Xbox One.
