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SOMA - 10 days after launch
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RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch

Yeah. It is well deserved and I'm glad to see that it has commercially been meeting/slightly exceeding your expectations. This is quite a triumph really for a number of reasons:
  1. Indie Studio with no Marketing Budget (that I know of Tongue) - AFAIK there hasn't been much marketing for this game involving ads or anything.

  2. Brand New IP with an unusual Title - A Machine for Pigs was riding hard on the success of the Amnesia IP and the success of The Dark Descent. While SOMA did the same, it was no doubt much more subdued with the lack of the IP in addition to lukewarm reaction to AMFP.

  3. Slow-burn Intro - This is actually something that has been anathema to games. Most developers, especially the big ones and publishers would never green light a game that has such a "mellow" expository intro. Their logic is to go out guns blazing at the start (putting most of their production values in the first hours) since they feel fewer and fewer will progress far into the game to the end. SOMA pretty much goes against that entirely with the first 1/3 of the game being world building and exposition before actually ratcheting it up to true Horror.

  4. 5-Year dev time - Very few would ever take such time with a game, and only would do so if they'd fallen into the trap of overbudgeted and overbloated development, going over and over to change the core game designs. Fortunately you guys knew exactly what you wanted to do and it was just a matter of using the time to get it right.

So hopefully this game will meet the number needed to break even and you'll have enough funds for another long-term project!

That said, I really do love the SOMAverse and would hope there could be more "Episodes" in it. Granted having spent 5 years on it I imagine there'd be a lot of reticence in going back for more. But I personally feel there is a lot more available in this universe to explore than there was with Amnesia.
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2015, 06:21 PM by PathOS.)
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SOMA - 10 days after launch - by jens - 10-01-2015, 01:39 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Googolplex - 10-01-2015, 04:47 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Ashtoreth - 10-01-2015, 05:23 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Statyk - 10-01-2015, 05:39 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by PathOS - 10-01-2015, 06:21 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Googolplex - 10-04-2015, 10:51 AM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by rini - 10-06-2015, 03:31 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Googolplex - 10-06-2015, 04:01 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by tedy - 10-06-2015, 04:19 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by butter - 10-07-2015, 09:10 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by PiratesFr33k - 10-17-2015, 06:21 AM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Mudbill - 10-17-2015, 08:40 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by D351 - 11-28-2015, 06:01 AM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Radiance - 01-28-2016, 09:06 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Knickebein - 05-17-2016, 06:42 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by boredgunner - 09-04-2016, 10:30 PM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by Romulator - 09-05-2016, 01:49 AM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by boredgunner - 09-11-2016, 04:18 AM
RE: SOMA - 10 days after launch - by WarGod45 - 10-18-2016, 11:54 AM



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