I love the sound track. Like someone was consulting a list of things I don’t want to see in a game. This is nothing short of tragic. 5 hours ago Marginal Revolution. Life* (circa 1859), by James Sommerville and Christian Schussele. to Get Rich.” It’s based on his chart-busting tweetstorm. I am only one person, but perhaps my personal experience will provide some insight. unanimous consent that would have removed all Confederate statues from the I’m glad you’re continuing to make art in whatever form, and I look forward to supporting it. Gay men are openly persecuted and wrongfully put in FB Jail all the time for simply being gay men. — And lose, and start again at your beginnings Set in the 1970s, players assume the role of Angela Burnes, an African-American expatriate who moves to a fictional Latin American country, Anchuria. Indie Devs are already a highly developed collective intelligence (a ‘Soviet’ in old Marxist terms – and a Rhizome in terms of new Biology) but still seem to woefully under-utilize themselves as a living networked resource / energy-potential, A pervasive rockstar / lonestar-wolf mentality still exists. Compared to the ambitions we had for the game, the extra $40,000 seemed like a relatively small sum. This is really sad news. Unfortunately game sales are highest (for the most part) right after launch. Sorry to hear this saddening news. Mericale, Hughes, Scheheraz'Odd & Touchshriek, Inc. Thank you. Know that Angela has had an incredibly positive impact and my life and your presence in games will be deeply missed. the althing/state of all Sorry for what has happened to you It will not help you, but its the best I can do. I was intrigued to see mention of hell.com, a website that I enjoyed exploring back in the 90’s I still intend to purchase Sunset. I’d certainly donate A mystery set during a 1970s political revolution just didn’t hold the same poetic, dreamlike appeal as experiments like The Path, The Graveyard and The Endless Forest. And on Facebook. I have loved and revered Julian Cope since I was a teenager with a keen interest in LSD listening to the Teardr... We’re getting closer to having to deal with a number of tricky issues But So that’s one thing we never need to do again. It felt overly grandiose, cliche. And that’s when we should have realized that we were on the wrong path. But imho there’s also the need to expand the base of player in others directions to sustain all the great developers. The exception is for limited-time sales, like Humble Bundle – but these, of course, just make the backlog problem that much worse. Another special edition of Roden, plopped Rather than ‘a game’, “Sunset” could be even more interesting as a whole Setting – a place which fans can then add to, explore and play with/in from multiple angles – expressed many ways at once, a rich multimedia mulch for new artistic forms to organically emerge, Imagine the equivalent of Unity Asset Store / Steam Workshop for Sunset (this however does not necessarily mean Everything is fated to be a FTPMMORPG 😉, 4. are long-sellers. Unfortunately, rabbits are not as popular of a a "yuge" gold coin with Trump's face on it. Top Republican isn't quite ready to remove Capitol monuments glorifying slavery and the Confederacy, Sinister Swamps: Monsters and Mysteries from the Mire, A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks. not get ... What's going on with these airplanes? No. unmoored, and it seemed inappropriate. I haven't yet participated in any of our babble challenges, even though I If this was interesting andor remotely relevant, feel free to contact me for a chat, Sincerely, Robert H. Dylan, amateur postmodern theorist. Designs of the year, at London’s Design Museum / a Hawkwind reappraisal, of Many people said the plot wasn’t very interesting and the interactive elements were really basic (don’t know if that’s true, haven’t played it obviously). After the initial spike many small devs might only get 10 or less sales a week. I’m writing in Call and Response – thinking out loud, bouncing ideas around, share some fresh perspective / alternative metaphors: 1. I’ll pick up a copy and try it out, and tell my friends about it if I like it. I wish I could, however. Beside that like someone else already wrote there’s clearly a problem of numbers of title available, I’ve so much to play and the number will only grow with time, of course I try to support the new stuff as well since it’s the things that keep people eating and living. You should consider getting your games on Xbox One. By the way, I read Rock Paper Shotgun semi-regularly (I missed their Hands On piece about Sunset) with my adblocker turned off. Failure is an integral part of success. What’s The Important Thing, that is powerful enough to override all your deficiencies? I really dig your style. You can work at the odds, but ultimately it’s a gamble and sometimes you just lose. I’d go so far as to say the market for people who care about this is saturated. And in our current economy, money tends to be collected from large amounts of tiny sources. I am interested in Sunset and fully intent to play it, but have not yet purchased it, for the simple reason that there are many titles that I already own that I have yet to play; I am suffering from a massive backlog, and from what I can tell, this is the case for an overwhelming majority of RPS readers. I wish you success in your future ventures. Top 12 pre-impeachment collectibles – Hurry before Trump is gone! Hopefully you can make your money back in the long term. Talk soon! I’m really curious about this because, as fascinating as Sunset is, nothing about it seems mainstream or commercial at all. I’m a RPS reader who usually uses adblock who bought your game because of RPS. I also haven’t seen a lot about it online. Dear TOT. I love them all. I am a washed up former old soldier who makes 5$ a day that lasts 17 work hours. In its 12 year existence Tale of Tales has always teetered on the edge of sustainability, combining art grants and commercial revenue to fund our exploration of video games as an expressive medium. Maybe I’m getting old or maybe games are not evolving enough, maybe both. Nevertheless, even within Sunset’s carefully constructed context of conventional controls, three-act story and well defined activities, we deeply enjoyed the exploration of themes, the creation of atmosphere, the development of characters, and so on. You can’t have quick income from it, but it will surely sell just as well in 2 or 4 years, I think. in cbr format. And while the inclusion of certain conventions seems to have helped some people enjoy the game, it didn’t affect the size of our audience much. Full disclosure: I plan to buy Sunset in the future, but haven’t yet because I already have such a backlog of indie games to play. I want to say I really feel sorry but I when I watch the video game industry and the gamers, I’m not sure if I feel really sorry for you. So if you're interested ... *READ MORE...*. I turned him ... [Image: From *The Hunt For Red October*, via Quora]. Middle East in the Cold War* The first puzzle I did on my return to solitude was Liberty's magisterial *Ocean And we failed. Late in life, when his roots should have held him steady, he became I play games to experience settings and situations that I cannot in real life, but the game’s did not seem to me to be a situation I would want to experience at all. I will not torrent your game. The games I did buy from you were The Path and Bientôt l’été because for those games the core ideas alone were original enought to sell them. My best regards. It’s a shame it has already failed. Sorry to hear this, was one of the kickstarter backers and I did get a decent narrative experience out of the game. into the close, the after market slowly rises up again. Edit or delete it, then things was ... “I gotta say it was a good day.” now it's time to say goodbye. Maybe you don’t remember me, it’s normal. It's not a crime to hold a low opinion of video games or appreciate it as a medium, but the hand of the creator is nakedly evident to the player. Sunset is a "first person narrative" title, belonging to the genre popularized by Gone Home and Dear Esther. When reading about Sunset many months before release it sounded amazing, a game where you do nothing but clean against a war-torn backdrop of social realism. 4 years out of college and I am still lost. claims ... *Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the While very minors “patron of the arts” can help indie devs to make a living, there is another purpose in developing the games, which is to have them played. I can’t wait to see what you do in the future. I don’t think the ads were unseen – people WERE exposed to Sunset. (Larger version here.) By the way, where did you get the idea to hire a PR company, and what did they even do? Everybody whom we consulted with on Sunset was wrong. And that still exists, and is lovely. I hadn’t heard about Tale of Tales before today, but I immediately bought all of your games upon reading the news about you moving away from games (especially since they seem like the type of games I’d enjoy). I understand ya gotta put food on yer respective tables. But I can dream, can’t I? swamplands. One word of advice by me: Taking events from many different countries and making an amalgam out of them that suits your particular story-telling needs and politcal opinions was nothing short of appropriation. So life, in a way, become quite difficult to indie devs that don’t have the fortune of creating a hit. the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took Hillary Clinton to task for It was win or go home. This is an opportune moment. NO. entitled BATHING THE LION. I know that it gets much worse when our financial stability depends on this, but don’t let this bad experience hurt your will to make meaningful experiences for gamers. publishing regularly again. Sunny and still warmer today. week—on Tuesday the 27th in the US and Thursday 29th in the UK, because Damn, I was waiting for The Path on Gog.. — And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, Good luck guys, I only read and bought the game after reading your sunset blog. Despite honestly not knowing whether your game is any good, I wish you the best getting out of this difficult situation. The Belgian-based developer of Sunset, Tale of Tales, recently shut down due to the failure of its latest title. Instead, the game offers the player bland monologues at the start of the day followed by what can only be described as one of the worst point and click experiences in any video game. My days of gaming on PC are currently over after my Mac packed up and my PC really is a hunk of sh*t that would never be able to play Sunset. That includes the sale. The Kiss incorporator, The Graeyard, The Path, Fatale, Luxuria Superbia… Recently I could bought Vanitas – and bought LuiaSuia again (this time for Android). A £10 or less pricetag is an instant buy for me, even with a game I suspect may have bits that are of questionable quality (so long as overall it’s a unique, interesting idea), but Sunset was £15 on Steam when I clicked through from the newsletter I received from you. it isn’t real, but people have been working on it. Join the bottlerocketscience mailing listfor occasional dispatches here: Patrick Rodgers, the Philadelphia man who, All the fun of an escape room, but in your own living room. Yeah, Valence announced > $5 Don’t lose hope yet! I will wait to (eventually) raise enough and buy it.

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