one of many Evotars created by Sidwell and sent to gather information for him, just to be later deleted once they discovered the truth about their origin. To escape this fate, C'tron made a copy of himself to the main Evotar server. Back to Homestedt, C'tron reveals all he knows to the others and Lea is given the right to pass judgement on him, deciding if he can live in Homestedt with the other Evotars or not. Some time later, all other Evotars move to Homestedt and erect a statue in Lea's honor. Development and release Development of the game was started in 2011 by German studio Radical Fish Games. In February 2015 it was introduced as an Indiegogo project, seeking €80 000 in crowdfunding alongside a web-based demo version. The game's early access version was released for Linux, macOS, and Windows on Steam later that year. Initially, the game was envisioned as having a 2016 release date, but development "just took much longer than expected", so it was delayed several times. Although it was initially intended as a crowdfunding reward, the Steam early access release allowed the developers to have a continuous source of income to keep working as needed, and employ player feedback to add more features and balance the game. Due to the story's importance, the team worked first on gameplay elements, then on the game map, only adding narrative content once all other elements were completed. Around half of the story was delayed until the full release, to allow players to experience the gameplay during early access, since "people only play the story only once mostly". Crosscode'''s gameplay elements were based on a "lot of different inspirations". The ball-throwing mechanic was taken from Yoshi's Island, while questing and exploration was inspired by games such as the Xenoblade series. However, to prevent it from being a clone of older games, the developers tried to "look at them from a game designer perspective", and not blindly copy their mechanics. They also added features that were not possible in classic games, such as a three-dimensional physics system. Although the game's party system did not have a major impact on gameplay, it was added to fit the MMORPG setting of the narrative. The graphical style of the game was influenced by old SNES games such as Chrono Trigger and Terranigma. The developers decided to keep the style largely "like in