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It’s like the beta of The Path is making a tour through Europe. Claudio Todeschini wrote an interesting preview on Games Village about how The Path is not exactly fun and offers a deep emotional experience instead. He explores his confusion further in an editorial article about the meaning of the word videogame.
It’s nice to see how much thought our little project can provoke. Though we personally think The Path can be fun. Perhaps just a different kind of fun.
Maybe I should stop linking these, so as not to spoil the game too much. But I couldn’t help but be charmed by Jenni Lada’s little preview of The Path on Gamertell. If only because she shows how to play the game: by making up a story as you go along.
The Austrian kids at Random Rocket have interrupted their usual menu of war simulations and Ego-Shooter for a little stroll on The Path. Auf Deutsch, selbstverständlich.
And before we forget, Dutch-speaking French Belgian ClémentXVII posted a wonderfully written preview of The Path on Factor News. If you know even a little bit of French, I highly recommend it.
Achim Fehrenbach has turned a telephone interview into a nice article and got it published in both Zoomer and Der Tagesspiegel. It’s about The Path, but also about some of our other projects. In German. Hopefully this helps getting the word out in the German speaking world.
Philip Cremers heeft een artikel geschreven over zijn ervaringen bij het spelen van een beta versie van The Path. Als het korte wachten je teveel wordt, kan je je even gaan laven aan zijn bron: hier.
This post is in Dutch because it refers to an article written in Dutch. The Path will be released in English and Dutch. Dutch my mother tongue.
The Path will be released on 18 March 2009, exactly ten years after Auriea and I met in person for the first time and launched our first collaborative project. We are planning to repeat this event in one month from a room in the exact same hotel in San Francisco, with The Path. There will be no witnesses.
To celebrate the announcement, we have opened a new website for The Path:
The Path will be available for purchase and download form our own website, from Direct2Drive and from Steam. As of March 18. There’s a countdown here. 😉
Jarboe and Kris Force have created the first track of what we hope will become The Original Soundtrack of The Path, simply entitled Safe Song. You can listen to it here or download it here.
I say “created” because in the game, the music is completely dynamic and never the same twice. So this linear song is only an approximation of the experience of the music in the game. A distillation of its perfume. Like a blossom picked from a tree. 
Warning: SPOILERS!
Although…
The discussion of some of these plot points might be considered spoilers in other games but since the focus of The Path is squarely on your visceral reactions and not to the actual narrative importance of the events themselves, we can be fairly specific about what happens without ever really compromising the experience that the designers intended.
