Thousands of playersВ played the title by the end of 2018. On November 16th, 2018, Among UsВ came out on Steam, and the team now considered the game to be out of beta. In August 2018, the studio rolled outВ an online multiplayer beta version of the game on Itch.io.В With online matches enabled, they could now implement sound effects. It also didnвЂ™t perform quite well, butВ the feedback from mobile players convincedВ InnerSloth to implement online multiplayer. In June 2018, the teamВ launched an open beta on mobile. This version of the game also featured one map only. SinceВ players had to be in the same room, sounds could have given away what each of them was doing. Moreover, at that time, the game didnвЂ™t haveВ any sound effects. Originally, Among Us was a local multiplayer game, and it broke every timeВ players joined the lobby.

All the artwork and animations were done with Adobe Animate, formerly known as Flash. The failure of Deitied convinced the team to start developing a new game.В TheyВ decided to buildВ itВ on the Unity engine since it was already familiar to them from their previousВ title. Nevertheless, after spending a week rebuilding old assets and iterating on the concept,В the team realizedВ the game simply wasnвЂ™t that interesting. The development went onВ until October 2017, when Forest quit his full-time job at Microsoft to fully focus on Deitied. And to their suprise, it got greenlit in June 2016.В Players, however, immediately were frustrated with the gameвЂ™s many flaws as the build was essentially work in progress. The trio submitted theВ playable buildВ to Steam Greenlight. ThatвЂ™s when Amy joined the team to help with the artwork. It was a local-multiplayer, twin-stick deathmatch game where players would gain favor with gods each round or be punished by them. In December 2015, Marcus and Forest started working on a project titled Deitied. Their nextВ project took three months.В It was aВ mobile game titled Dig2China!В which came out in January 2015. TheirВ first project was something the devs themselves describe as вЂњ Nuclear Throne, but not good.вЂќ So, after a year of development, they dropped it. The teamВ that today consists of designer/artist Marcus Bromander, programmerВ Forest Willard,В and artist Amy Liu, started as a duo ofВ Marcus and Forest.

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