Here’s an interesting way of getting your game in front of as many people as you can.
Darkwood, a new isometric horror game from indie studio Acid Wizard Studio, is a survival horror game played from a top-down perspective. It was in Early Access for a long time, but released in 1.0 form a week ago.
In an Imgur post about the game’s development, the small development team goes through the process, showing their art and discussing how the game came together. The goal was to make a horrifying game with absolutely no jump scares in it.
The story of how the game came to be is pretty interesting – especially looking at the huge risks the developers took – but the most interesting thing in here is the fact that the developer has put their game up on Pirate Bay, by choice.
This was inspired partly, they said, by all the scam emails they were receiving. “You know, when people claim to be a Youtuber or blogger and ask for a Steam key”, the post reads. “That key then gets sold through a shady platform. To be honest, we’re fed up with it.”
Even more pressing, it seemed, was the idea that some people were collecting Steam refunds because they could not afford the game. “When we read the explanation from someone who wrote that he needed the refund because he didn’t want his parents to be stressed out when seeing the bill at the end of the month… well, it made us feel quite bad”, they wrote. To counteract this, the developers have uploaded the game to Pirate Bay. There’s no hidden downgrade here, they say – it’s the full game, available to pirate, if that’s what you want to do. “We have just one request: if you like Darkwood and want us to continue making games, consider buying it in the future, maybe on a sale, through Steam, GOG or Humble Store.”
We’re not inclined to link to the Pirate Bay listing, but it’s included in the Imgur post. Meanwhile, here is the game’s Steam page.
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