If a tester cannot figure out how to open a door in v0.01, the developer knows to improve the "affordance" or visual cues in v0.02.

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Early testers can find "edge cases" where the player might fall through the floor or crash the engine.

At its core, a dungeon crawler relies on the synergy between spatial navigation and resource management. A v0.01 build typically focuses on "finding the fun." Developers use these early versions to determine if the basic loop—moving through a corridor, engaging in a simple combat encounter, and collecting an item—is inherently satisfying. By keeping the version number at 0.01, the creator signals that the project is in a state of "pre-alpha," where the code is likely brittle, and the assets are placeholders. Iterative Design and Feedback Loops