Martin: We have several ideas for new classes and new heroes. We're evaluating potential implementation and roadmap together with our publisher.

Martin: We definitely like the idea of having siege-type units that could be used both for defense and for attacking camps (which would also have improved defenses and wouldn’t be easy to destroy with regular units). However, we’re not planning these changes in the near future..

Lukas: Definitely none from Subway (Sorry!)
Ondrej: A free sandwich
Martin: Tuna and egg sandwich
Tadeas: I don't eat carbs, only to drink them later on
Jakub: Club sandwich
David: Sahib’s Dream

Lukas: Mojito flavour (non alcoholic ofc!)
Ondrej: Does ‘yes’ count as a flavor?
Martin: Lemon in bananas in chocolate 🙂
Tadeas: Vanilla
Jakub: Mango ice cream
David: Magnum Double Caramel

Lukas: Paladin, brings some nostalgic feeling from vanilla wow.
Ondrej: Eldrin, because life’s too short to run up and hit things
Martin: Ardan (because he was our first Hero and also has a very nice model) + Garnet (because he's red-haired like me)
Tadeas: Nariel just because hasn't been nerfed ever since 😈
Jakub: Garnet
David: Nariel

Ondrej: Each mission took roughly one to two months to go from a top-down sketch on a whiteboard to a fully playable version in the game. After that, we entered the testing phase, where we iterated based on feedback from multiple tester groups. We intentionally rotated testers between iterations to ensure that feedback reflected a fresh perspective, not prior familiarity with the mission.

While the content of the missions didn't change drastically during these iterations, testers were invaluable in identifying bugs and helping us fine-tune elements like pacing, difficulty, and clarity. In some cases, they missed certain areas altogether, which told us we needed to make those sections more noticeable.

Overall, the testing process played a huge role in shaping the final experience. It helped us spot design elements that weren't working as intended and ultimately made the game more intuitive and enjoyable.

Lukas: I no longer remember the scrapped ones (as the ideas were halted quite soon before any implementation) But for similar ones, The Defense of Strahnbrad was an issue. They introduce main hero (Arthas), then also second hero (Uther), mission is a tutorial and they fight orcs. Our first mission we also need to introduce our hero (Eldrin), introduce other character (Captain Thorne), have it as a tutorial, as well as fight orcs. Trying quite hard, it still looks very same, even though we could not cut/change almost anything without completly changing our campaign structure and lore.
The Culling of Stratholm was inspiration and still is very close to our mission “Mistfen’s last Hour”, (but you evacuate instead of cull citizens) while the last mission is also quite close to Mount Hyjal, but you invade the demons, instead of being invaded.

Martin: Even on maps with fewer trees, there are still enough wood to cover the required amount of resources. The real bottleneck in terms of progression is more often the mana orbs (during early game); food on certain maps (which can be managed by choosing the right strategy); but the most significant bottleneck is the hard cap on workers, which is set due to technical limitations on the number of entities in the game.

If someone is lacking wood, they need to build more woodcutters, either by expanding territory through lamps or by utilizing outposts.

We do recognize that more players are having trouble with wood, but that's mostly because our economy is set up differently than what players are typically used to. So we don’t rule out making some adjustments to bring it closer to player expectations.

As for tree regrowth itself, we’re not considering it at the moment.

Martin: The unit limit in Survival mode exists for several reasons. One of them is performance on weaker PCs. Having too many units could lead to FPS issues, especially during night invasions when there are dozens of entities on the map.
Another issue is that it's technically quite challenging to ensure units remain easy, responsive, and intuitive to control during battles. We've already released several updates focusing on this, but in general, the more units there are, the messier it gets and the more micromanagement is required.

Adding this limit to the editor is a good idea. It's been noted in the backlog.

Martin: We have hundreds of notes recorded and are still in the phase of collecting feedback. Later on, we’ll organize and evaluate it. For now, we’re not planning any major changes, but we do like the idea of adding progression to the survival mode.

Lukas: all campaign assets are present in the editor, as we use the same editor/assets players have available for the public.

Martin: Yes, the Necromancer character is in our backlog, and we like the idea of making her a woman.

Martin: If new biomes were created (e.g. jungle, tundra, mountain), new maps would be added as well.

Martin: We’d really like to have some type of metalevel layer above the Survival mode, but the problem is that it would disrupt gameplay balance if a Hero started with some improved stats or equipment. That’s why we’re considering a metalevel system that would be separate from the game-level and in-level progression.

Lukas: The Warcraft was the main one, mainly the visual thematic, races and combat. But “survive the nights” came directly from They Are Billions. And as there was no “wacraft 3 survive nights” game, we knew we had a chance! Not directly games, but the Warhammer universe and Game of Thrones had big influence on atmosphere, lore and continent composition (world map).

Martin: I tried to look at Darfall with Don’t Starve in mind as a source of inspiration. You have a main character (both in Darfall and in Don’t Starve); you build your base (in both games); and you explore the world and gather items needed for base development (again, similar to Don’t Starve). Even though it’s a different genre, I still see a lot of similarities when it comes to base building and resource management :)

Martin: In general, the hardest thing in game development is prioritizing tasks and features. We have an incredibly long backlog that we’re constantly adding to, but choosing what’s truly important is very challenging, especially when there are only a few of us working on a project as big as Darfall. So, we're currently in a phase where we're still collecting feedback, which we'll evaluate later.

Lukas: Darfall was actually started as 1 men project years back, as a “tower defense” game on islands with minecraft like graphics. Then I got addicted to They are Billions, and from that point, I knew what I wanted Darfall to be :) We were working on the game in just our spare time with Martin for the past few years, then the real production, with artists was little over a year, leading to full release.
Martin: To add to what Lukas said, I’ll try to be more specific in terms of the timeline. Hopefully I remember it correctly :)

• 2019–2020 - Lukas created the initial prototype of the voxel-based version
• Mid-2020 - I started collaborating with Lukas (by the way, we know each other from a previous job)
• End of 2020 - I quit my job so I could, among other things, start working part-time on Darfall
• 2021–2023 - We continued working part/full-time on the project, just the two of us
• End of 2023 - We signed a partnership with Paradox, and Lukas left his job
• 2024 - We began expanding the team with new members
• May 2024 - May 2025 - Ongoing redesign of Darfall from a voxel-based style to low-poly textured graphics; completing the entire game

Martin: Coop is technically very demanding; unfortunately, we do not plan it for now, even though we would also love to play together as a team or with/against friends.

Martin: All these suggestions are noted in the Backlog as ideas for further game improvements.

Lukas: Isn’t the wood comparable to gold from Warcraft or crystals from Starcraft? As its a main resource and used for everything, even in the mentioned games, the resource is always spent and in great demand, since its used for almost every purchase, thus the player needs to carefully plan, spend and expand to get more of it. Increasing the wood production would just allow you to spend it more faster, leading to the same result, not enough wood, just faster :)

Ondrej: We do support cloud saves

Martin: It was added a few weeks after the release.