Written by on in Business, Retrospective.
2015 was a weird year. Somewhere in that year is a typical tale of an indie game studio underestimating project timelines and changing directions based on surprises and things they learned.
But I want to talk about budgets.
...It's been a while since we've updated our morbid Discordian satire Ossuary, but there are some issues that have been nagging at us. We improved the introductory experience and made some additions and fixes to accessibility and usability.
For full details, check out the update news.
If you ...
Written by on in Development.
Ossuary—which is currently 50% off on Steam, and will be 50% off next week on FireFlower—is getting an update soon to provide some user experience improvements.
One in particular that we noticed in watching folks play on YouTube is that colorblind players find the floor puzzles impossible to solve without brute forcing a solution through trial and error.
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In honor of the Discordian holiday of Bureflux, our creepy, satirical, conversation-based adventure game Ossuary will be 50% off on Steam from September 21-27, 2015.
In Discordianism, there are five seasons, each with 73 days. These seasons reflect the cyclical periods of history, which start with Chaos, fall into Discord, ...
Our macabre Discordian adventure game Ossuary is now available on Steam! As part of its release, it's available for a limited time at 15% off, making it $8.49.
It's always exciting to be available in a new store, and Steam is the biggest store of all. If you haven't ...
Our funny, philosophical, pixel-horror adventure game Ossuary will be released on Steam on May 27, 2015. It will be available on Windows and Mac OSX. You can visit its Steam store page, add it to your wishlist, and download the demo now.
Ossuary is a conversation-focused adventure game that ...
Written by on in News, Retrospective.
We're not sure how Ossuary got Greenlit.
On April 8, we posted a blog entry marking the one-year anniversary of our creepy-funny game Ossuary's journey on the Steam Greenlight service. On April 13, the game was approved, letting us start preparing it for release on Valve's major online ...
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Early this week we received the fateful email: our darkly funny satire Ossuary is coming to Steam!
It's been a rough road on Steam Greenlight, but we finally got approved. The process from here on is covered by a non-disclosure agreement, but all that's left is the basics of ...
Written by on in News, Retrospective.
Our creepy-funny adventure Ossuary has now been in the Steam Greenlight program for a year. It's frustrating and demoralizing, and we're sharing some details about our experience. Whether you are in Greenlight right now, are considering it, or just buy games on Steam, it's good to know what the process is like.
One year in, and we're 84% of the way to the top 100.
Images in this article are taken directly from Greenlight's stats page for Ossuary.
...Written by on in Development, News, Retrospective.
Hello! Gregory here. Almost a year ago we released our dark, funny, satirical game Ossuary. It's a story about descending into a static underworld, talking to the people there, and corrupting them with sins that are really virtues.
A year on, it's a good time to look back and talk about how the game was made and received. In short: those who played it seem to have really liked it and understood where it was coming from, but it hasn't had the exposure, popularity, or sales that we wanted from it.
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