Just teasing…
April 22nd, 2009 by Michael
Archive for April, 2009
Moving to the Mac
April 20th, 2009 by Michael
This is just to let you know that we’re working hard with Transgaming on making The Path work on Mac, through Cider. Sadly it is not as straightforward as we hoped for. A lot of elements in the game need to be hand-tuned to make them work on Mac. The biggest problems we’re having are graphic errors. Some things don’t show up or are rendered wrong. Some shaders don’t work properly.
But we’re solving these issues one by one. And the transatlantic collaboration is going well, despite of the big difference in time zone (Transgaming is based in Canada and we are in Belgium).
This conversion has our primary focus at the moment and we won’t stop until the Mac version of The Path is ready for release.
The Path is one month old!
April 18th, 2009 by Michael
It will be one month today since the launch of The Path.
The release itself was a celebration of our collaboration. It happened exactly 10 years after we met in person for the first time and launched our first collaborative project. And we launched The Path from a room in the same hotel in San Francisco (which in and of itself, spontaneously, turned into a sort of a re-enactment of something that happened -almost exactly- 40 years ago; it’s a small world).
Sorry, we’re kind of big on anniversaries around here. And small on coincidence.
To celebrate our little baby of one month, we will be staging an ABIOGENESIS festival in The Endless Forest at 9 PM, Belgian time. See you on Twin Gods Hill!
After which The Path will be offered exclusively to registered players of The Endless Forest for the anti-price of 6.66, the opposite of its normal price of 9.99 (keep an eye on incoming email!).
martha’s pictograms
April 13th, 2009 by Auriea
These are the original pictogram drawings, made by Michael’s daughter, Martha, 11. She wanted to help, so we gave her this most important concept art task :).
We based many of the pictogram icons in The Path on these.
Video review by GameCorner.pl and Fan Video extravaganza!
April 9th, 2009 by Auriea
BOTH OF THESE VIDEOS CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!! you have been warned!
love this. its a review of the game. in polish. may show you more than you want revealed if you plan on playing the game fresh. it is very well done and worth watching. They also did quite an extensive looking write up of the game.
“lenki?”
meanwhile…
GIW (from The Path) from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.
Looks like someone put a lot of love and a lot of time into making that video. Thanks a million Lainy, its beautiful!
One night in Amsterdam
April 5th, 2009 by Auriea
The Path was part of an exhibition at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. We were in the sates and couldn’t attend but we received this documentation from a friend ;).
The Path Group on Steam
April 3rd, 2009 by Auriea
Now that we’re back and settling down, we’re making plans on how best to support The Path now it’s released. Putting plans into ACTION! For one thing, we’ve created an official group on Steam for the game. Behold!
The direct url is: http://steamcommunity.com/games/ThePath
There seems to be some interesting features to the Group… Like seeing how many are playing. That’s nice, like playing the game all together as a big community. And there’s a chat room too, though that scares me.
We will use the group to keep Steam players informed about news and updates and such… And who knows what THAT may lead to… o_0b
Anyway, I hope all of you Steam players (and you know who you are) will come join the group and let’s see what that does, eh.
The Path has been out for 2 weeks
April 2nd, 2009 by Michael
And this is what the sales graph looks like:
Nice for skiing!
But not so nice for everything else. Damn, those sale figures dropped quickly. And it’s not for lack of attention in press and such. Curious to see how Steam sales and sales from our own site have gotten close together. I wonder how that will continue.
Oh and for those who are interested in such things:
I deduced the gender from the name of the customer. Not a very precise method, especially given the amount of names that I was unsure about. But still, one thing is clear: ladies, you’ve got some more work to do!
(ToT) Store Orders Sent!
April 2nd, 2009 by Auriea
It has begun.
All orders bought on or before April 1st through the Tale of Tales store have been mailed out, just now, by us. And we will be mailing things out weekly from now on.
Big THANK YOU to everyone who ordered! We packaged everything up nice :). While we were doing it we had a thought… Why don’t we sign the posters? so we did. Hope you like that. Since you didn’t know, we kept it simple.
AND
this got us thinking… “Why don’t we have a Poster Sale?”
So we are!
Every month we will discount 2 of the girl posters and send them to you signed, in silver ink. Trust us, its pretty, i’ll draw a little pictogram on there, just for you. 😉
The entire month of April Robin and Rose can be yours for the lowered cost of €18. 😀
ALSO
The USB sticks are going fast! If you have an interest in seeing work in progress outtakes from The Path and the (in)famous early interactive demo with a dance-off between Ruby and Charming Wolf, I suggest you go for it now. 😉