Indie Game Sales, Bundles, And AVWW Stuff

[cupogoodness]

Originally posted: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/05/indie-game-sales-bundles-and-avww-stuff.html

Big things happening these days. A Valley Without Wind has seen several more additions and refinements over the past week as we approach the 1.1 (and first official) update for the game. We also have a pretty cool announcement we've been sitting on for a few days that hopefully we'll be able to share before the weekend, or at least by early next week. We'll see.

One press item we wanted to highlight regarding AVWW: Vagary TV's Indie Game Review podcast. In the inaugural episode the game is reviewed by the two hosts and then Chris joins for the interview portion.

Other happenings in the indie world we wanted to quickly mention:

The Because We May week has kicked off, where developers can and have freely reduced (or in a few cases increased) the prices on their games. There's a ton of indie devs taking part, and although we're not actively involved, you can be sure we're passively participating by pricing our games at their normal price during the week; because we may. ;)

Our pal Gnome points us to the Bundle In A Box Adventure Bundle. That goes through June 6th and includes a bunch of solid indie adventure games such as Gemini Rue and Size Five's Zombie Cow efforts. It also has The Sea Will Claim Everything, which people keep mentioning how awesome it is though I haven't had a chance yet to play.

Here's the press that's come in for Valley over the past few days:

Armless Octopus -- A Valley Without Wind Review: Beware of The Wind

Dark Zero -- A Valley Without Wind Mac Review

Singju Games -- Review: A Valley Without Wind for PC

Gamer's guide to Life -- Review: A Valley Without Wind

Mash Those Buttons -- A Valley Without Wind [Review]

[VIDEO] A Valley Without Wind - First Impressions (Portuguese)

[VIDEO] A Valley Without Wind Part 3 and Part 4 (Russian)

[MouldyK]

you can be sure we're passively participating by pricing our games at their normal price during the week; because we may.

As mean and cheapskate as that sounded, it made me laugh. xD

[x4000]

Well, I don't think it was intended to sound mean -- we're just not doing a sale at the moment, but we certainly do sales pretty often.  The main reason we're not doing one now is that we just finished doing like three sales in a row.

[cupogoodness]

Oh yeah, certainly wasn't supposed to be mean. An attempt at cheekiness certainly, but we think it's awesome what Ron Carmel has put together with such a big list of indies.

The spirit of the event is to price your game whatever you want, and as Chris pointed out since all of our games have been on sale for a week or so each over the past month, we're supporting the cause by pricing our games at their standard tag for the initiative...alright not really, but we wanted to give the event a shout even though we didn't get involved this time around.

[Toll]

We also have a pretty cool announcement we've been sitting on for a few days that hopefully we'll be able to share before the weekend, or at least by early next week.

My attention. You now have it. Carry on.

[x4000]

We also have a pretty cool announcement we've been sitting on for a few days that hopefully we'll be able to share before the weekend, or at least by early next week.

My attention. You now have it. Carry on.

It's not related to a new product or anything like that; more of an event sort of thing.  But we have big plans on the product side as well obviously; we just tend to be more open about that sort of thing from the get-go.