I finally broke down. Did a torrent and will likely plop the $13 or so on it come payday. While I will enjoy it some, my 6 year old who is all about Create Mode on many games (he loves making Little Big Planet levels and wants a PSN id so he can share them), will absolutely love it.
I agree it is fantastic marketing. I am guessing the guy sells a ton of IDs each day. Let's say 10 a day (which may be conservative with the hype), that is more than $130 a day. If he nails 100 IDs a day...


EDIT: If this story is to be believed, he made $350,000 in one day once. With over 257,000 IDs sold....
Another site confirms this number quoting the developer himself...

>> ^Croccydile:

Disclaimer: I've played this game for the past two weeks, even ahead of Civ V.
The graphics are the LAST thing you worry about in this game. I was wondering about all the fuss until I tried it myself. It's FUN as a combination creative/survival game. Thats all that matters. It's fun. You don't necessarily need HDR Pixel Shader 3.0 DX11 for fun. (Well if you really hate it, some people have made updated graphics packs to increase the realism anyways)
The dude is still pulling in $100k a day as well. For a single developer indie game. He is doing something right.


Now it's up to 350K a day...

Edit: OOPS guess they edited the article and it's now saying 100k...

Disclaimer: I've played this game for the past two weeks, even ahead of Civ V.

The graphics are the LAST thing you worry about in this game. I was wondering about all the fuss until I tried it myself. It's FUN as a combination creative/survival game. Thats all that matters. It's fun. You don't necessarily need HDR Pixel Shader 3.0 DX11 for fun. (Well if you really hate it, some people have made updated graphics packs to increase the realism anyways)

The dude is still pulling in $100k a day as well. For a single developer indie game. He is doing something right.

Hmm. Interesting.

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hi! That video isn't mine. Mine is the one with the foul-mouthed commentary.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Hey. How come you put your video to private? Now, my video submission is dead in http://videosift.com/video/Moonbase-Alpha-Video ...

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Hi! That video isn't mine. Mine is the one with the foul-mouthed commentary.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Hey. How come you put your video to private? Now, my video submission is dead in http://videosift.com/video/Moonbase-Alpha-Video ...

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Hey. How come you put your video to private? Now, my video submission is dead in http://videosift.com/video/Moonbase-Alpha-Video ...

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Cool and welcome aboard. I have never heard of those other games.

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

The price of AAA games on steam that are not vlave are a total joke , i dont see how you can defend it.

last game i bought bad company 2 , steam price £29.99 amazon with free 3 day delivery £15 , play.com allso had it for free 3 day delivery for £15 , games satay at full retail price for longer on steam , and u dont have the advantage of trading it in if you stop playing the game + as you say no manual.

If you preorder on amazon its poasted out so it arives on relase day , and often arives day before.

It only anoys me because i would rather use steam , i allso know its largely due to publishers forcing that price on steam. another thing thats shit is that you buy a game on steam thinking steam will auto update it and all the bullshit coppy protection will be handled by steam but often thats not the case and u still have to manual patch or sign up to exsternal websites and make acvcounts for games. the New IL2 game was a compleat farce and arma 2 took a good 4 months before you could patch it with steam.

I think Valve are now in a positoin to say to publishers , "u need to have it at x price or we wont host it " and allso force them to acomidate the steam network if they want there game on it.

I have used steam since first beta came out and its gr8 for all the valve and hl stuff , patching HL1 to play dod and cs1.4 was a total ball pain and steam fixed that (lol patch 501015-50102 then patch 50192-2304).






>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^westy:
evan if this game is good ,
steem is still flawed
Im the typ of person that would buy all my games on steam , I have maby 20 steam games as it is , mostly valve games but maby 5 non valve games. The big problem with steam are the prices for this reasoin i have bought my last 4 games from amazon , play.com game and game station. There is something realy wrong if you can pick up a game cheeper from bricks and morter . (steam prices r only good for old games or valve games when they promote them)
Another seperate issue i have with steem and valve is that the games seem to be more and more like console games , in game play and design , I have nothing against console games but i have a 360 to play console games on , with my pc i prefer games that are more saphisticated.
In some ways steem is gr8 id much rather have a company like valve do Digital distrabutoin than say EA or some random allso there promoting and pushing indi games is nice. I just think with some small changes it could be super amazing rather than just another way to get games.

Steam is not really flawed. Just because you might be able to get a slightly better price on Amazon does not take into account the full situation. With Amazon, you have to pay for the shipping. Not to mention waiting. It isn't so bad if you have an Amazon Prime account, but then you are paying more anyway so it doesn't matter. Plus, you can pre-load most games on Steam when they are first released, meaning the day before you can have it installed and ready to go, then the next morning just start up Steam and have at it.
Plus, with game stores like Gamestop and such, you have to drive their, find the game, check out, and drive back, probably for the same price as it was on Steam.

The only thing I don't like about the Steam digital distribution is lack of manuals are other box content that comes with retail store purchases.
As for games becoming more "consolized", that is the developer's fault, not Steam's. Besides, there are plenty of sophisticated PC games on Steam, you just have to weed out the bad ones.
In fact, the deals Steam hosts almost 24/7/365 are incredible. They gave out Portal for free, this for free. 600 games under $10. 180 under $5. I mean, the THQ pack alone is about 5 years worth of games for like $20.

Edit: Unfortunately the THQ pack is no longer on sale, it is back to $99. That was a steal while it was cheap, though.

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evan if this game is good ,

steem is still flawed


Im the typ of person that would buy all my games on steam , I have maby 20 steam games as it is , mostly valve games but maby 5 non valve games. The big problem with steam are the prices for this reasoin i have bought my last 4 games from amazon , play.com game and game station. There is something realy wrong if you can pick up a game cheeper from bricks and morter . (steam prices r only good for old games or valve games when they promote them)


Another seperate issue i have with steem and valve is that the games seem to be more and more like console games , in game play and design , I have nothing against console games but i have a 360 to play console games on , with my pc i prefer games that are more saphisticated.


In some ways steem is gr8 id much rather have a company like valve do Digital distrabutoin than say EA or some random allso there promoting and pushing indi games is nice. I just think with some small changes it could be super amazing rather than just another way to get games.

if it weren't for the ads i'd have never known about their recent 'summer inside' bargain days sales...

beathazard for $2.something? done.
osmos for $2.something? done.
i'd have grabbed a lot more except i already had a bunch of them.

i love indy games... i'll also be grabbing this the second i see it.

@Shepppard, I'm definitely going to be watching the reviews on a Move-enabled SOCOM 4. I'm not a fan of the SOCOM series, but it's definitely not a casual/family title, and it should give us an idea of whether they've made motion control a must-have for core gamers.

@Deano I agree, I think the real exciting part of Move/Kinect is the indie games we're likely to see on PSN and XBLA. I'm a little surprised we haven't had more breakthrough hits from the Wii's indie game store, but only a little.

I'm not going to be first in line for either product, but I'm hopeful they'll find a way to make one or both appealing to me.

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>> ^xxovercastxx:

The link would have been adequate and wouldn't have taken up 5 screens.
>> ^ant:
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It was six for me. We just need bigger monitors and high resolutions.