What is Introversion Software’s view on the pricing of independently developed games?
Mark explained that Valve have a very interesting strategy when it comes to pricing of games. Steam has a system where they drop the price of games to a very small amount for a short period of time. While this appears to be very risky at first, the volumes the games sell at sky-rockets and makes up for the lack of price by sheer volume of sales. Editorial: The same can be said for iPhone and Xbox Live titles that have been discounted of late and have seen sales climb as a result. Why do the Darwinians look like little match-stick men? Chris explained that in order to get the volume of creatures into the game, they had to simplify the models that made them up, hence the basic little figures. In Darwinia + they have been upgraded to 64×64 HD sprites that, to quote Mark; ‘have gone mad’. What happened to the ‘Assault Mode’ in Darwinia + Multiwinia boasted an Assault Mode that required one team to defend a bomb until it went off, whilst the other team had to attack them and destroy the bom
