Clearly Yearwalk could never work as a IAP game, Simogo never had that choice it was always going to be a premium game. if you give a demo then how much time do you let them play. to short (ie 10mins) and you will get 1 stared off the app store 30 mins and they have given away a huge part of the game. Sadly these types of games are rare its too much risk for the developer as its basically impossible to fit it in the IAP model. I hope it does well. While a short game, I will remember it for years.
Weird - did you tap the gate? Try going along a little further in the walkthrough to see if it's just a glitch. Those are the exact same questions I had. Puzzling.
Experience My wife and I just finished Year Walk last night... but I don't know if I'll ever really be finished with it. If I were to say Year Walk is a just a game, I would do it a grave injustice. This is a complete experience. I could see it's origins so clearly. I believe I read that this idea was adapted from a screenplay for a film. And this is absolutely a film I would have enjoyed... But to actually live the plot through my iPad was amazing. The companion not only gives you important back story to the experience's plot, but it eventually introduces us to the plot of what could have easily been a good film or novel. It was strangely reminiscent of House of Leaves, a horror novel. The fact that you have to go back and forth through the game and the companion, space and time, word and image, game and story, made it feel like I watched a film, experienced the main character's emotions and confusion, and eventually read my own journal entries. I was one person. I was two. I was connected through something deeper than space and time. This experience was very innovative and experimental. I think this experience would have been a great side project to an actual film, telling the other side of a story... but as it is, it transcends movie tie-in or movie itself. This is a new way to immerse yourself in a story. Stories. Oral tradition, still image, written word, recorded music, motion pictures, video games, and now this: a combination of them all. I highly recommend you experience this. It might change your perspective on our current culture, our past culture, and it might inspire you to experience life in new ways. Thanks, Simogo. I know it's a long shot, but I'd love to see a spooky wintery Year Walk level added to Bumpy Road. I'd also love to see clear make use of the black, white, blue, and reds in Year Walk to give us a Vedtorp Theme!
I just finished year walk today and wow what a experience it was, I read thorough the companion app first then played the game and can easily say its one of the best game/experiences I've played in ages. This will not be a game that's easily forgotten. There was genuine jump out the seat moments which has never happend before with an ipad game. This is best played on your own with your headphones in IMO.
Who wants to try year walking? It would be cool to see if it is real. I just read about the night raven, church grim, huldra, the brook horse, the myling, and year walking on the internet. They are all real folklore, and the year walk was done back in the day.
Year Walk is currently #33 on the US Paid App store and #93 in Top grossing. BTW, I may be grasping at straws here but does anyone want to have a go at trying to translate the ruins on this tomb(?). FYI, this is a screengrab from one of the trailers. The text in-game is very small.
It's jumped up on the uk store to 9th and apple has a link to it on the featured homepage part. I wonder if there will be a sequel of some kind? Or would it be best to leave it alone rather than risk ruining it
I actually doubt that there is more to the Companion app since I poked around in it's app files (which there happens to be an EXE in, but I think that's just a result of compilation process, the exe didn't actually do anything...that I could find) but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong though. Speaking of, any one clever enough to extract all the strings from the companion app? The diary text isn't stored plainly, but encoded.
I see the number 3-10 30-30 popping up, that is the phone number for Greco pizza in Canada. I'm convinced this isn't coincidental.
Having a problem that was already posted. Pretty sure I have all the symbols for the box from the companion notes. Must have tried twenty times and nothing. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Or straight up directions for the box? Awesome game, reminds me of how i felt playing Sword & Sworcery and Waking Mars. not too many games on iPod have this much impact.
Agreed. Are you sure you have them in the right order? You can use the ones from here: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Year+Walk/feature.asp?c=48649
Good hint! Well, I checked both pages vedtorp.se and almsten.se for clues, turned every stone, but nothing hidden. Not in pop-up texts, not in the source code. The runes, yes. At first glance, a Futhark, a runic alphabet of the Vikings. But these aren't Futhark - some runes are unusual. But there are lots of runic "dialects". Indeed, in a small province called Dalarna in Middle Sweden, runes were used until the 19th century. This wedge writing was advanced, developed over 300 years constant use, while forgotten everywhere else. And YES, the first picture of a great rune stone from Dalarna I saw was carrying more of the same runes as the arc of the gate. After searching for a while, I found the Dalecarlian Runes: But they still give no complete sense... as if they were mixed with old norse Futhark. Or... the first half in Futhark, the second half of each word in Dalecarlian. Hey Simogo devs, I know you're watching. Stop laughing, dammit.
Yes. I bet it makes sense and is an important clue to the big secret. Well, maybe it's another runic alphabet and not this, that's at least a possibility. The stone might be very old, not neccessarily from the 19th century. Except if Daniel made it. Check the companion log, in there is the left half of the arc written down in much better quality. In the text above it, it's hinted to find put that these writings mean and how the stone is connected to the Year Walk.
Correct. Look, one half is the same. And the runes are much clearer here, and... waitstop. Year Walk, of course! It was most certainly a Pagan rite! And the Pagan had their own runic alphabet. Elder Futhark or something like that. I'll check this out immediately. edit: damn, that's sctually cool. A lot of the runes match. But there are still some missing. Now we need to find the correct type. On the page where the runes are written down, there are some scatched translation tries. One is not scratched. E = D?... Is that a hint towards the correct alphabet?
