Friday 4 October 2013
Hi Beautifans!
we have important news this week! ... because they are really big for us! after suffering and trying everything we could during this past year, we are now approved on Steam Greenlight! it has been really hard for us to raise the votes, but finally we raised no less than 20.900 upvotes and that put us in Greenlight's Top 10!!
To reach this point, we had to wait more than 13 months, 399 days to be exact! we tried many alternatives, we sent many many press releases asking for some coverage, we thought we could look for a publisher who already were approved by Valve to try to reach Steam through them, we did even a massive one-week Nihilumbra iOS giveaway, but nothing was really effective, but month after month we were gaining some votes. It wasn't until Steam decided to approve a round of 100 games in the end of August when we started to see the light and climb a bunch of positions and finally passed the filter.
Now we are working non-stop with the Steamworks integration tools to adapt our game to Steam as soon as possible and make it available there. We hope to have it ready for next week or maybe sooner!
Also this week has been quite busy with the launch of the PC version of Nihilumbra, getting feedback and we also tried our best to spread the word and it went pretty well. The game got covered in many Youtube videos, streamings and press sites, here are some of the more remarkable appearances:
Websites and blogs:
IGN Spain (3/10/2013)
Gikz.pl (Poland - 2/10/2013)
Indiependencia (Spain - 1/10/2013)
Rubber Chicken (Portugal - 1/10/2013)
Indie Mag (France - 30/09/2013)
Games Master (Croatia - 27/09/2013)
Rock Paper Shotgun (26/09/2013)
Blogocio (Spain - 26/09/2013)
Skyrock (France - 26/09/2013)
Dailyapp Show (25/09/2013)
Random Havok (25/09/2013)
Península Indie (Spain - 24/09/2013)
Capsule Computers (25/09/2013)
Hookedgamers (17/09/2013)
Youtube videos and streamings:
Nihilumbra Walkthrough - Turbine Gaming
As you can see, the game is getting pretty nice comments out there, but we expect the Steam version to be even more complete, not only because of the new Steam achievements system. We are going to launch a small game update with this version, and then we hope to polish the Nihilumbra experience even more.
But in the middle of all this work, we are still celebrating it!
But in the middle of all this work, we are still celebrating it!
Will keep you updated! stay tuned!
