What strategy games are Outwitters players playing..?

[onealexleft]

(01-20-2014 09:44 AM)awpertunity Wrote:  

(01-19-2014 11:48 PM)Uyduruk Wrote:  

(01-17-2014 07:24 PM)awpertunity Wrote:  

(11-25-2013 06:25 AM)onealexleft Wrote:  

(11-04-2013 01:34 AM)awpertunity Wrote:  Faster than Light? My friend made that

Oh Cool! Love that game! Enjoyed their GDC talk as well. Was awesome to see them do well in IGF. Who's your friend? Matthew Davis or Justin Ma?

Matthew Davis! His sister lives with my college roommate. He made around $850k off it in the first 3 weeks or so if I remember correctly.

Steam is the place to release your games!

He deserved every penny of it, it's such a great game. FTL was my obsession before I started playing Outwitters. Finished the game with all 16 ships )

On a related note, i read somewhere OML lost a lot of money with Outwitters, which made me very sad. The piece was dated around the release of the game, so I was hoping things might have improved since. Anyone has any updates on this?

Wow that's impressive. I was only able to get like 5-6 ships lol.

Unfortunately I am pretty sure Outwitters ended in a loss for them =/

financially, it's not looking hot. critically, creatively? A smashing success. When looking to recoup costs of development we don't try to 'hit it out of the park' and recoup in a tiny amount of time. a couple of years recoup time is something we'd ideally shoot for. it keeps the lights on and let's us setup even more games and IP. Something longer is reasonable as not every game can be a 'hit'. given the business model and the amount of momentum we had it was clear Outwitters wasn't going to make even 60-70% of it's money for a very long time.