What's Next for 3XO?

Kickstarter a Massive Success

The Kickstarter campaign has now officially completed. 436 backers pledged their support to raise over $53,000 to complete the development of 3XO! We are so absolutely thrilled with the success of this campaign!

We want to extend a huge thank you and virtual hugs and high-fives to all those who backed 3XO. Your support means the world to us and we are so excited to move forward with you all into the Alpha and Beta tests, and then onto the full launch of 3XO!

A big thanks also to all who helped spread the word about 3XO, are active in our wonderful community on Discord, and have contributed ideas and feedback. Together we will make 3XO into the game that we'll all have so much fun playing and living in for many years to come!

Now that the campaign is done, I'm sure many of you are wondering..."What's next?" Well read on to get an idea of what us devs will be working on and previewing in the coming months, as well as details about the character name reservations and Alpha testing.

Upcoming Previews

For the next couple of months, we'll be releasing a variety of previews, sneak peeks, and behind-the-scenes looks about the basics of 3XO. Some will be shown to everybody on our site, Discord, and Twitter. Some will be exclusive to the Kickstarter backers.

In December, most of the content will revolve around the character models themselves, and our very intricate workflow that allows us to use the gorgeous DAZ 3D models in Unreal Engine 5. You'll see previews of all the body and face customization options in the character creator, as well as some tutorials/guides on our workflow (other game developers will LOVE this!), and even some funny previews of some of the hilariously ugly mistakes that have happened with the character creator and the models.

In January, you'll see more previews of the actual gameplay as we lead up to the first Alpha testing phase. Including the first look at our still early but mostly finished UI. There will be short video clips, longer gameplay demos, more tutorials and articles, and possibly even some dev livestreams and Q&A's!

Character Creator

Before the Alpha begins, we'll be releasing the Character Creator as an offline standalone demo of sorts. You'll be able to download it from our website and play around with all the body and face customization options and really see what 3XO is capable of. Create your gorgeous character before the game launches or even before Alpha, or see what kind of monstrosities you can create by cranking the dozens and dozens of sliders to max! And then give us your feedback, because that's crucial!

The character creator will be released in early January.

Alpha 1

Your first chance to dive into 3XO will come in Alpha 1, which is tentatively scheduled for January 27th, 2023 at 3 pm EST. It will be online until Jan 28 at 6 am EST. We'll be having an epic party in-game to celebrate, with DJs, dancing, sex (duh), games, and contests! The other scheduled dates and times for the rest of the Alpha 1 schedule will be announced later.

If you'd like to volunteer to be a DJ for the party, and you're in the Alpha 1, then just contact any of the devs on Discord. We'll be looking for 4-5 more DJs to do a one or two-hour timeslot.

Each time the Alpha goes live for the scheduled times, we'll be focusing our testing efforts on specific features. The first test will be extremely basic - just making your character, loading into the party room, and chatting and dancing with the other testers. So to keep everyones' expectations in line, if you're expecting this first Alpha to be a fully finished and amazing experience, it probably won't be. Alpha is for testing, finding bugs, giving feedback, etc. There's also a good chance that everything could catch fire and crash, which is also something we'd need lots of feedback and bug reports on! Us devs are even going to be playing a drinking game each time someone has a crash

Character Name Reservation

Pretty soon, you'll be able to create an account on the 3XO website and attach your Kickstarter account to it to connect your rewards. This is how you'll be able to access the Alpha and Beta tests, as well as reserve your character names before launch.

The name reservation will open up shortly before Beta 1 begins, and we'll announce the exact date and time ahead of time so people can plan for it.

Beta and Beyond

The Beta phase is still planned to begin sometime in April 2023. We'll be releasing more previews of all the different features and content that 3XO will have. As well as doing more livestreams, Q&A's, and lots of games and contests and giveaways!

The World Editor offline standalone preview will, hopefully, be released either shortly before or during the Beta phases. You'll be able to build your rooms and host your own parties during the Beta tests.

After the Beta has ended, we'll be hard at work on finalizing the polish, fixing bugs, creating the custom outfits and rooms for backers, and adding more cosmetics leading up to our planned release date in August 2023!