The developers of Warbits ($2.99) at Risky Lab minced no words in the start of their postmortem (mirrored on Dropbox here) that it was a “dumb idea." Warbits would take 6 months, they said. It would be easy, they said. Well, it took over 4 years to finish Warbits, and this was no joke, the first major game for both of the key principals behind the game. “The scope was too big, the mechanics were too complex. Absolutely everything we did was a grueling journey of trial and error…Thinking back, just about every issue we ran into could be attributed to inexperience." But yet, this isn’t a story of failure. Warbits was eventually made, turned out fantastic, and actually managed to make ten times its cost, though the costs don’t include income for the principal developers, necessarily. A game made by a full-time indie studio might not be profitable given the same circumstances, but as Risky Labs states – their circumstances were borne of a two-person team biting off a lot more than they could chew. That it worked was a miracle.
In fact, Risky Lab really lucked out. The week they launched, Apple cleared out the top of the App Store for a massive Earth Day promotion that had other developers running scared and not releasing games in that time frame. Warbits managed to benefit from a light slate of competition, and was the featured Editor’s Choice for two weeks, including a week or so of traditional Editor’s Choice featuring. As such, they’ve managed to sell over 52,000 copies, though that’s heavily weighted toward the first two weeks. Not bad for a dumb idea.
First Deus Ex Go and now this ..... looks to be a good week
It will beca good week! But not for me. No money and the wife will flip if i spend anything right now... so i have to wait
Chin up, I've been there
What your wife doesn't know won't make her flip😉
I've never even heard of this show. Sounds cool, though. I'll have to look it up. The game looks good, too.
I couldn't get into it, but I only watched a few minutes of it, (Amazon recommended it to me, I know it's got Christian Slater though!) now hooked on The Expanse and Stranger Things! I always do like choose your own adventure type games so I might keep my eyes on this one!
Bruh few mins in and you already abandon the show. Damn
I had other things already to watch... It has a high metacritic score and is prolly great, I just don't have time for everything...
A lot of shows I like require a few episodes before they hit their stride, I also didn't have anyone to watch and talk about it with, again it's prolly great and it's on my list (and seems geared towards me anyways), excited to get into it someday...
Whoa, it has Christian Slater? Haven't seen him in anything for a long time. I might have to turn this show on and Pump Up The Volume!
So does Archer!
And they have young Christian Slater with Sean Connery in The Name of the Rose, pretty good medieval monk detective movie!
Mr. Robot is in my top 10 of all time TV shows this side of the 21st Century. I'm not sure if this game will live up to my expectations, I will wait until the reviews hit.