{"id":31452,"date":"2016-04-05T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31452"},"modified":"2017-05-14T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T23:26:16","slug":"good-robot-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31452","title":{"rendered":"Good Robot: Out Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/358830\/\">Good Robot is released<\/a>! We even have a launch trailer to prove it!<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMQEnXM54LM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMQEnXM54LM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not nervous about sales. Maybe it will flop. Maybe people will dig it. I hope for the best, but I&#8217;m not worried.<\/p>\n<p>No, what has me worried are <em>glitches<\/em>. We&#8217;ve done as much testing as a small outfit like ours can hope to do. The press have been playing the game for a couple of weeks now. While everything is basically okay so far, I&#8217;m still terrified that some previously unseen glitch will pop up when the game reaches the masses. Maybe the framerate will be low for people using left-handed mice, or maybe the display colors will be inverted for people using DVORAK keyboards, or whatever. There was no shortage of mystery problems during development, and I can&#8217;t shake the feeling that a few of them have been hiding, waiting until launch day to manifest.<\/p>\n<p>If I designed a bad videogame and it gets bad reviews, then that&#8217;s how it goes. But if I designed a good game that gets trashed in reviews because of some obscure but game-breaking glitch, it will haunt me forever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll have more posts in this series. Maybe I&#8217;ll do a postmortem. Maybe we&#8217;ll talk about sales. I don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;ll see what&#8217;s interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/pyrodactyl.com\/\">Pyrodactyl<\/a> for teaming up to finish the dang thing. Thanks to Arvind, Mikk, Rutskarn, and Ross for the hard work, long meetings, and good ideas. Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s followed the project since <a href=\"?p=20649\">day one<\/a>. Thanks for the encouragement. Thanks for taking a chance and buying the game. Thanks for doing all the social-media sharing stuff to help the game reach more people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rutskarn&#8217;s Amendment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, I want to stress that for us to make it through the first few hours of Steam Shenanigans you should<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/358830\/\">absolutely buy <em>Good Robo<\/em>t<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/358830\/\"> <\/a><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/358830\/\"><strong>now and not wait<\/strong>.<\/a> Want to make that clear.<\/p>\n<p>But a bonus for you&#8211;unexpected snag for us&#8211;is that for some reason, the launch was hinky in a few ways, among them being the game was<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/358830\/\"> discounted at 30%<\/a><\/strong> instead of the 10% we&#8217;d budgeted for. Steam Customer Support will presumably slouch into action before too long, but for now&#8230;I dunno. 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