Heyo!

We're closing in on that arbitrary 300 review mark we set for ourselves! HUZZAH!

DEV CHAT IS NOW LIVE! We'll be hanging out for about an hour (2pm-3pm CST). Come say hey and ask a question!

Didn't want to ever see our faces? WELL TOO BAD.

See you soon!
-samuel

Heyo!

We're closing in on that arbitrary 300 review mark we set for ourselves! HUZZAH!

We'll be doing a devchat via google hangouts in about two hours (2pm CST). I'll post the link in here. There's Q&A and we'll just be hanging out for an hour or so so you can ask Crashlands and Butterscotch questions all you want!

Didn't want to ever see our faces? WELL TOO BAD.

See you soon!
-samuel

TotalBiscuit just tweeted about Crashlands...

You guys are great.

UPDATE ON THINGS WE WERE WAITING FOR:

• Kotaku posted a glowing review
  
• PC Gamer posted a not-quite-so-glowing but still good review (73/100)
  
• TotalBiscuit tweeted about Crashlands
  
• We got TouchArcade's Game of the Week
  
• Over 1500 concurrent players on steam alone, and growing!
  
• Current Metascore of 83 on PC and 100 (!) on iOS
  
• Adam (the tools and web brother) seems to have fixed most of our server problems. It only cost him 6 months of longevity due to the stress! SYNC AWAAAAY!

One last thing we'd like to get to wrap this launch UP:

• A freakin' review from IGN. Tweet them!

NOW GATHER ROUND FOR SOME DEV CHATS!
There's something I'd like to note about our design choices with Crashlands that I see in some of the comments and that the PC Gamer review touched on somewhat:

This game was designed to be platform agnostic:
Meaning it plays equally well on PC and Mobile. This put us in the precarious position of possibly being unclaimed by EITHER platform, since gamers on each occasionally have hard biases against another platform. Initially, this took the form of us stepping into threads to clear up the dual points of the game either being "A shitty mobile game trying to get on PC" or "a PC game trying to get a shitty port onto mobile."

Now that the quality of the game has been established this is less of an issue, but for those here who are concerned that Crashlands' presence on mobile SOMEHOW means it is an inferior game on Steam, it doesn't; what it means you can play it wherever you want however you want and it remains a great, cohesive experience.

Further, nearly all of our Beta testers (whom we used for the final tuning of the game's balance and design improvements) primarily played on PC - that's what the game is actually most optimized for, from a feedback standpoint!

A note about the controls:
The game is designed to work extremely well with a mouse, which makes it work perfectly on a touch device. However, this control scheme choice is viewed by some on PC as a holdover that's sprung from the game's presence on mobile, which is an understandable assumption but a bit odd if you extend it to other PC games that rely on the same scheme. For example, Diablo uses extensive mouse control - but its lack of presence on mobile means its controls are considered only with regard to how well they work, not as though they're a necessity for touch screens. (For those of you who simply prefer controllers/WASD movement, that's a different thing entirely!)

All of this leads to the final question of different pricepoints on Steam ($15) vs Mobile ($5), for which the answer is 2-fold:

1) We believe Crashlands is easily a $20 value. But we want people to play on everything they have (crossplatforminess!), so we split the price for a buyer between the two.
2) The mobile market has massively suppressed pricing - putting a game on that market for $15 from a generally unknown studio would be a complete financial disaster. Trust us - we did it with our first game (for $2.99) and it fell on its face so hard it burst through the crust of the earth and nearly destroyed our fledgling studio with the resulting magmic eruption.

Hope that answers a few of the most frequently asked / assumed things! Thanks for helping make this launch RIDICULOUS. (Seriously, we made high-pitched yet-still-extremely-manly noises when we saw the Totalbiscuit tweet).

Feel free to drop your thoughts below, but remember to not be a jerk. We're all humans here, playing games because we love them or making games because we love to.

Stay frosty,
samuel
1/3rd of our 3 brother studio

TotalBiscuit just tweeted about Crashlands...

You guys are great.

UPDATE ON THINGS WE WERE WAITING FOR:

• Kotaku posted a glowing review
  
• PC Gamer posted a not-quite-so-glowing but still good review (73/100)
  
• TotalBiscuit tweeted about Crashlands
  
• We got TouchArcade's Game of the Week
  
• Over 1500 concurrent players on steam alone, and growing!
  
• Current Metascore of 83 on PC and 100 (!) on iOS
  
• Adam (the tools and web brother) seems to have fixed most of our server problems. It only cost him 6 months of longevity due to the stress! SYNC AWAAAAY!

One last thing we'd like to get to wrap this launch UP:

• A freakin' review from IGN. Tweet them!

NOW GATHER ROUND FOR SOME DEV CHATS!
There's something I'd like to note about our design choices with Crashlands that I see in some of the comments and that the PC Gamer review touched on somewhat:

This game was designed to be platform agnostic, meaning to play equally well on PC and Mobile. This put us in the precarious position of possibly being unclaimed by EITHER platform, since gamers on each occasionally have hard biases against another platform. Initially, this took the form of us stepping into threads to clear up the dual points of the game either being "A shitty mobile game trying to get on PC" or "a PC game trying to get a shitty port onto mobile."

Now that the quality of the game has been established this is less of an issue, but for those here who are concerned that Crashlands' presence on mobile SOMEHOW means it is an inferior game on Steam, it doesn't; what it means you can play it wherever you want however you want and it remains a great, cohesive experience.

Further, nearly all of our Beta testers (whom we used for the final tuning of the game's balance and design improvements) primarily played on PC - that's what the game is actually most optimized for, from a feedback standpoint!

Which leads to the question of pricepoints on Steam ($15) vs Mobile ($5), for which the answer is 2-fold:

1) We believe Crashlands is easily a $20 value. But we want people to play on everything they have (crossplatforminess!), so we split the price for a buyer between the two.
2) The mobile market has massively suppressed pricing - putting a game on that market for $15 from a generally unknown studio would be a complete financial disaster. Trust us - we did it with our first game (for $2.99) and it fell on its face so hard it burst through the crust of the earth and nearly destroyed our fledgling studio with the resulting magmic eruption.

Hope that answers a few of the most frequently asked / assumed things! Thanks for helping make this launch RIDICULOUS. (Seriously, we made high-pitched yet-still-extremely-manly noises when we saw the Totalbiscuit tweet).

Feel free to drop your thoughts below, but remember to not be a jerk. We're all humans here, playing games because we love them or making games because we love to.

Stay frosty,
samuel
1/3rd of our 3 brother studio

TotalBiscuit just tweeted about Crashlands...

You guys are great.

UPDATE ON THINGS WE WERE WAITING FOR:

• Kotaku posted a glowing review
  
• PC Gamer posted a not-quite-so-glowing but still good review (73/100)
  
• TotalBiscuit tweeted about Crashlands
  
• We got TouchArcade's Game of the Week
  
• Over 1500 concurrent players on steam alone, and growing!
  
• Current Metascore of 83 on PC and 100 (!) on iOS
  
• Adam (the tools and web brother) seems to have fixed most of our server problems. It only cost him 6 months of longevity due to the stress! SYNC AWAAAAY!

One last thing we'd like to get to wrap this launch UP:

• A freakin' review from IGN. Tweet them!

NOW GATHER ROUND FOR SOME DEV CHATS!
There's something I'd like to note about our design choices with Crashlands that I see in some of the comments and that the PC Gamer review touched on somewhat:

This game was designed to be platform agnostic:
Meaning it plays equally well on PC and Mobile. This put us in the precarious position of possibly being unclaimed by EITHER platform, since gamers on each occasionally have hard biases against another platform. Initially, this took the form of us stepping into threads to clear up the dual points of the game either being "A shitty mobile game trying to get on PC" or "a PC game trying to get a shitty port onto mobile."

Now that the quality of the game has been established this is less of an issue, but for those here who are concerned that Crashlands' presence on mobile SOMEHOW means it is an inferior game on Steam, it doesn't; what it means you can play it wherever you want however you want and it remains a great, cohesive experience.

Further, nearly all of our Beta testers (whom we used for the final tuning of the game's balance and design improvements) primarily played on PC - that's what the game is actually most optimized for, from a feedback standpoint!

A note about the controls:
The game is designed to work extremely well with a mouse, which makes it work perfectly on a touch device. However, this control scheme choice is viewed by some on PC as a holdover that's sprung from the game's presence on mobile, which is an understandable assumption but a bit odd if you extend it to other PC games that rely on the same scheme. For example, Diablo uses extensive mouse control - but its lack of presence on mobile means its controls are considered only with regard to how well they work, not as though they're a necessity for touch screens. (For those of you who simply prefer controllers/WASD movement, that's a different thing entirely!)

All of this leads to the final question of different pricepoints on Steam ($15) vs Mobile ($5), for which the answer is 2-fold:

1) We believe Crashlands is easily a $20 value. But we want people to play on everything they have (crossplatforminess!), so we split the price for a buyer between the two.
2) The mobile market has massively suppressed pricing - putting a game on that market for $15 from a generally unknown studio would be a complete financial disaster. Trust us - we did it with our first game (for $2.99) and it fell on its face so hard it burst through the crust of the earth and nearly destroyed our fledgling studio with the resulting magmic eruption.

Hope that answers a few of the most frequently asked / assumed things! Thanks for helping make this launch RIDICULOUS. (Seriously, we made high-pitched yet-still-extremely-manly noises when we saw the Totalbiscuit tweet).

Feel free to drop your thoughts below, but remember to not be a jerk. We're all humans here, playing games because we love them or making games because we love to.

Stay frosty,
samuel
1/3rd of our 3 brother studio

HEYOOHOOOOO!

Crashlands launch has gone really well! Let's run down the LIST OF GOODNESS:

• Nothing broke (too terribly, anyway)
  
• Steam, Apple, and Google all did their part to feature/promote the game
  
• Our players nearly universally love the game (note: If you have a bug, report it to us, not in the review section you MANIACS!)
  
• The gaming press seems to be catching on to the idea that Crashlands is a great game that can be played anywhere, instead of thinking it's either a) a pc port to mobile or b) a mobile port to pc. We'll slowclap for them when they finally get it figured.
  
• Forums, subreddit, and BSID usage is up approxmiately 1 BILLION PERCENT.

We're still hoping for a few things to happen, which you can help with:

• 300 Steam reviews (Drop us one if you haven't yet - THEY'RE LIKE WORDGOLD)
  
• a Total Biscuit WTF IS show (tweet at him here!)
  
• PC Gamer and IGN reviews

Now we're back with our faces to the Butterscotch grindstone to iron out a few of those reported bugs and technical glitches, and then we can begin work on the first update!

HWHWOHOHOHOHOHOHOOOOOOAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
-samuel

HEYOOHOOOOO!

Crashlands launch has gone really well! Let's run down the LIST OF GOODNESS:

• Nothing broke (too terribly, anyway)
  
• Steam, Apple, and Google all did their part to feature/promote the game
  
• Our players nearly universally love the game (note: If you have a bug, report it to us, not in the review section you MANIACS!)
  
• The gaming press seems to be catching on to the idea that Crashlands is a great game that can be played anywhere, instead of thinking it's either a) a pc port to mobile or b) a mobile port to pc. We'll slowclap for them when they finally get it figured.
  
• Forums, subreddit, and BSID usage is up approxmiately 1 BILLION PERCENT.

We're still hoping for a few things to happen, which you can help with:

• 300 Steam reviews (Drop us one if you haven't yet - THEY'RE LIKE WORDGOLD)
  
• a Total Biscuit WTF IS show (tweet at him here!)
  
• PC Gamer and IGN reviews

Now we're back with our faces to the Butterscotch grindstone to iron out a few of those reported bugs and technical glitches, and then we can begin work on the first update!

HWHWOHOHOHOHOHOHOOOOOOAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
-samuel

If you're still on the fence about purchasing the game just check out one of these Let's Plays or search for #Crashlands on twitter and see all the fun you're missing out on!

Thank you all for making this possible for us! You're the best gaming community we could ask for!

-samuel

If you're still on the fence about purchasing the game just check out one of these Let's Plays or search for #Crashlands on twitter and see all the fun you're missing out on!

Thank you all for making this possible for us! You're the best gaming community we could ask for!

-samuel

Heyo!

We took a short break from freaking out yesterday to record our weekly gamedev+comedy podcast - and we tackled all the Crashlands related questions that were in the backlog.

If you want to pass one of the <24 hours to go by learning more about the development of Crashlands and how it evolved, slap some earbuds in and give this a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/butterscotch-shenanigans/ep35-coffee-w-butterscotch

We can't wait for tomorrow! AHHHHHHH!