Hey there!  Today we are posting about the progress on Haulin’ Oats, which is our next game up to bat. If you don’t know much about it, it is a game about truck driving and oatmeal.  However, it started off as one thing and is now something entirely different; minus those two points.

Haulin’ Oats started off as an Oregon Trail-esque adventure where you picked a driver, co-pilot, and pet and set off across the US to deliver oatmeal to one of three cities then drive back.  Along the way you would find various characters, dangerous situations, and quests.

In our attempt to experiment with different genres of games and branch out, it was decided that the format of Haulin’ Oats would change a bit while keeping most of the content the same.  This led to it being redesigned as a digital board game.

As you can see here, the board has a bunch of different spaces that are set up like very tiny mini-games (other than card drawing spaces).  We kept the drivers, the co-pilots, the pets, all of the random encounters and events, but just chopped it all up different.

As you can see from the screenshot below, even the main menu is laid out like the inside of a board game box.  The WIP splash intro is also like the unboxing of board game to get it all ready to play.

We will have more screenshots and game-play videos as we get closer to unveiling the playable alpha which will go out to our in-house testers.  Hopefully the next month after that we’ll have something available as a beta for folks to try out and on from there!  Stay tuned!