Obsidian Interview: Grounded Major Update, Ending Early Access, And Empowering The Community To Help Shape The Future
During PAX East 2022, the Grounded development team from Obsidian Studios hosted a live panel where they showed off some major features coming to the game in the next update. 0.13: The Bugs Strike Back, brings new base defense gameplay to Grounded. The premiere activity in the update is MIX.R, a new type of structure that can be found scattered around the yard that players will need to defend from multiple waves of aggressive insects. This tower defense-inspired activity is a highly strategic challenge that demands a lot of efficient building and insect knowledge. Complimenting MIX.R is the new Faction Wave system where hordes of insects will occasionally assault your bases depending on how much chaos you’ve caused in their nests and home environments.
As Grounded nears its 1.0 launch later this year, it's finally time for the bugs to start fighting back against the backyard colonizers. Update 0.13 will put your construction and survival skills to the ultimate test.
After the panel, I sat down with game director Adam Brennecke and lead animator Zach Spurlock to talk about the update, what they’ve learned through the Early Access process, and the huge impact that the community has had on development. Update 0.13 grew out of the community’s love for base building, which isn’t something the dev team had anticipated at first, according to Brennecke.
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“Before we released, all of our bases were fairly small,” Brennecke explains. “Even in the first month, some of the players built these amazing looking, super fancy bases. Bounce pad elevators and stuff like that blew my mind, we started thinking we need to invest more in our base building.” Over time, that has evolved into high-rise
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