After checking Tot's forum, The Path hits Steam's best sellers for the release week.
Steam, as a delivery method for PC games beats any bricks and mortar outlet or any Optical Media distribution (DVD, amazon, etc..) The media sounded death knell for PC gaming has largely been an issue because online distributors such as Steam aren't factored into sale figures. Steam is a great repository for new, old, niche games..long tail ahoy Anyway..as for reaching new audiences i.e. gamers, I'm going to say something very contentious and 'guess' that the sales for The Path have mainly been from games designers, games design students and artists who are gamers (possibly fitting into the previous categories) What exactly is the demographic for critical gamers? Sorry critical artgamers! [and to make things more complex critical Games Artists!] It has been billed as a horror game so maybe the curious silent hill players who have had some exposure to indie games content too The average and nominal Gears of War player...nah C -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of clemos Sent: 23 March 2009 5:01 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Steam Hi I have played The Graveyard, (randomly) downloaded via Steam, and been very positively surprised to find such things on that platform. I've been searching for other similar "artistic" games in the "Indie" section, but without luck... I'll sure check "The Path". It renewed my interrest in that platform (steam), because it indeeds seems to make it possible for artists to reach new audiences (gamers), and eventually to bring games and art closer from each other (or actually to make their proximity more obvious). The economics behind Steam and its impact on such "artgaming" production and distribution is also very interresting, maybe promising. Did you find any resource about these topics ? I'd be especially interrested in reviews and insight from the team of Tale of Tales: did they manage to sell their games ? how many downloads ? what's the commercial deal with Steam ? ... +++++++ Clément On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Corrado Morgana <[email protected]> wrote: > You might want to check out Tale of Tales' later stuff, 'The Graveyard' and > 'the Path' both available from their own website and also from Steam, online > videogames distribution stream; artgaming/games art, alongside indie and > commercial games, making the distributional leap to large (huge) potential > audiences (I'm not going to say mass market!) > > Steam absolutely rocks... > > Corrado > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ruth Catlow > Sent: 22 March 2009 7:31 PM > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > Subject: [NetBehaviour] Furtherfield in Support of Ada Lovelace Day > > Hi Netbehaviourists, > > In support of Ada Lovelace Day (highlighted by Marc and discussed a > couple of weeks back) we are inviting all women who work in media arts > and net art, who are not already subscribed, to join the NetBehaviour > email list for a week between 23rd and 30th March. > > We are asking them to squat the list for a week (of course we hope > they'll stick around for longer:) and tell us about their work and that > of other women who have inspired them in their own practice. > > This is not a separatist excercise; we want to hear from all of you so > don't hold back. > > Posts are welcome in any length, format and frequency and we are not > worrying about repeats or gaps. The following is offered as an example. > > ==================== > MY NAME: Ruth Catlow > > URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14 > > INSPIRED BY: > > Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and > facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial > project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship > between programming for embroidery and computing. > > Auriea Harvey - for her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate > networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless > Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver > http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest > > Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, > artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism > and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in > http://www.valuesatplay.org/ > > ============================== > > At the end of the week we will collate all of the posts in the thread > and feature them on Furtherfield.org. > > With all best wishes from > > Ruth and the Furtherfield crew > > ========================== > > *Ada Lovelace Day -bringing women in technology to the fore > http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/ > sign a pledge to blog about inspirational women in tech on 24th March. > > Furtherfield.org http://furtherfield.org > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
