Colif
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They worked out a lot of the secrets already. One took the work of 50 people to figure out solution. I won't link the video. Its what made me react. Its a metroid game with lots of hidden things.
I wonder if it was a successful first outing? I find these sorts of things interesting, but don't know enough about it to really know if it worked out. The best guessers say it sold 150k games in its first month, which after Steam's share leaves a little over $2 million made. If the publisher takes 50 percent (who knows. contracts vary widely), then I guess that's probably enough to pay off whatever the development costs were for a solo developer, but how much did they spend on marketing? Marketing costs always shock me.I think that's what they were going for. If you can a community talking about the game trying to figure things out it then you keep a core of people talking about it. It got a lot of buzz anyway because of the good reviews and being BigModes (Dunkeys) first published game anyway.
Game sounds alright, definitely has a great art style.
I wonder if it was a successful first outing? I find these sorts of things interesting, but don't know enough about it to really know if it worked out. The best guessers say it sold 150k games in its first month, which after Steam's share leaves a little over $2 million made. If the publisher takes 50 percent (who knows. contracts vary widely), then I guess that's probably enough to pay off whatever the development costs were for a solo developer, but how much did they spend on marketing? Marketing costs always shock me.
Never heard of Dunkey. I searched for it on Steam lol.For a debut solo dev to sell 150k in the first week is pretty successful, I would think anyway. 8K concurrent at peak on Steam and its only an 8-10 hour game I heard, probably keeps selling steadily for a while as well as it got good buzz. Thats also on Steam, its on Switch and PS5 where I would think a fair amount of Dunkey fans and fans of this style of game are playing instead.
Dunkey talked about it when he announced he was starting up a publishing company, hes not one of the crazy big Youtubers but he has 7.5 million subs and hes done videos on it obviously, I would assume for free. That alone is enough to get other streamers seeing it and people talking about it. Helps that apparently critics and pundits think its pretty fun too obviously.
In this case I would like to think the publishers cut wouldnt be too obscene. Dunkeys someone who seems to be passionate about games and the spiel when it was all announced was that the games hes going with are only the ideas that he found interesting as kind of passion projects. He seems genuine, but of course when you dont know someone personally you can never be 100% sure. Everyone likes getting paid.
No idea whether these smaller devs pay to get reviews on the big sites or get coverage on podcasts or other media, but otherwise where are you going to pay a lot of money to market a game like this? Not like its going on TV during the game or anything. I suppose theres conventions and so on to show it at that costs something, no idea if it had stuff at anything like that or not. Not something I have experience with, would be interesting to find out.
He's pretty well known. There were articles on PCG and in other places about BigMode when he announced it, so it was news. Some were pretty sceptical, but this game seems to have done alright so a good start.Never heard of Dunkey. I searched for it on Steam lol.
No way to tell if there are more players on PS or Switch. My impression, which is based mostly on prejudice rather than knowledge, is that most indie games do better on PC. But that's only little indie games. If this is backed by a big YouTuber then maybe it did very well elsewhere. My assumption was that it was relatively unknown, which is kind of in Steam's wheelhouse.
All the console owners I know IRL are casual players of things like CoD and Madden, so my perspective is likely skewed. I don't know any console players who would ever play anything like this or would ever even know it exists. I have to remind myself that the people I know are not the only people
As for advertising, I would assume you would spend most of your money on Youtube, Twitch and Tik Tok, but that's probably not correct. It's where the younglings are, though. Get a good streamer to play your game, and it can sell tons of copies.
The thing about this is: they've done this already, 20 years ago. They had ads in. Burnout, Need for Speed, fifa, Swat 4, Splinter Cell, hell EVERQUEST had them in the form of ordering a pizza directly from Pizza Hut with the /pizza command.With EA wanting to put adverts in BF and COD being pushed onto game pass, are we seeing the death throws of these two franchise they been releasing now for last 25+ years? Have we run out of wars? Can you only fight WW2 so many times?
Company greed will kill them.
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll see if I can convince my wife to take a break playing Diablo 4 for long enough to give it a try.@Pifanjr If you can get to your PC, you and your wife should try the demo for Norland. A lot of Rimworld in it, but more, too. Much larger scale in terms of people, though.
Norland on Steam
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.store.steampowered.com
Google really wants people to stop using them, don't they.
practice bubble jumping.with more layers the deeper the secrets and Easter eggs go. I have just not ever been the kind of person interested in finding all the secrets and participating in ARGs myself though I would love to watch what the community finds over time. The secret eggs are relatively easy to find by looking at the map, thought they require a lot of clever thinking and pretty tough platforming.
Did you end up picking up Dragon Age: Inquisition for free on Epic? Also, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is like $10 on GoG right now. I ended up picking it up and I'm hoping to play it on my upcoming vacation if this eGPU works out for me, but we'll see.so currently i'm playing Dorfromantik to enjoy some puzzle/ casual builder sim to relax to over the week. We'll see how far i get before i call it quits.
on other news, i bought assassin's creed valhalla complete edition for 19.93. which is more or less the price i would buy it. Honestly i might be making a mistake, but like some junkie i had to buy it. I suspect that it might go dirt cheap or even free on epic somewhere. But i guess i can't complain. For the price that the ragnarok edition i;ve got the full package.
As for other window shopping i saw judement and lost judgement for £26 which is mighty tempting but i think i can sequeeze it just a bit more...
That makes sense. CoPilot is the one that most actively uses up-to-date internet information, so for these fairly new games it'll be better.Anyway, based on these 4 questions I've gone back to using CoPilot for my gaming questions.
I'VE CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT DIABLO IV!
Yes, I did want to scream that. I was reading reviews of V-Rising, and someone said the combat was exactly like Diablo IV.
I seriously doubt this, as V-Rising isn't listed by anyone as an ARPG, but even if it's just similar, it's worth a shot. Installed Battle.net and am installing Diablo IV now.
its fun unless you get addicted to putting down perfect placements. I haven't looked at it much this year.so currently i'm playing Dorfromantik to enjoy some puzzle/ casual builder sim to relax to over the week. We'll see how far i get before i call it quits.
that isn't a feature of Diablo games, far from it.Focus on Skillshots: Combat relies heavily on aiming and timing your abilities. You'll need to predict enemy movements and land skillshots to deal damage effectively.