After one year, Ark: Survival Evolved developer is expertly navigating Early Access

Starving while naked on an island where dinosaurs roam free does not sound like a great time, and yet it’s the premise of one of the most popular games of the last year.

Ark: Survival Evolved is one of the stand-out releases in the “unfinished survival-simulator genre” that is now a well-established and popular niche on the Steam game-distribution channel. Twelve months ago, Studio Wildcard debuted Ark, and now the company is ready to share its philosophy and what it has learned from this new style of building games alongside an audience that can’t stop playing it.