80% in PC Gamer

[cliffski]

W00t. I just read the democracy 2 review in UKs PC Gamer magazine and it got 80%, the third highest score in the magazine, 1% behind Aquaria, and 4% below Armageddon empires. It's a glowing review too, and listed as a 'bargain'.
I'm dead pleased :D
The drinks are on me!!!!!

[oNyx]

Heh. Congratulations! :)

[JoKa]

Damn cool, congrats! :)

[zoombapup]

Hehhe.. youre bloody right the drinks are on you :)

[OremLK]

Very nice, cliffski! Congratulations!

[sillytuna]

Nice one fella!

[Game Producer]

W00t. I just read the democracy 2 review in UKs PC Gamer magazine and it got 80%, the third highest score in the magazine, 1% behind Aquaria, and 4% below Armageddon empires. It's a glowing review too, and listed as a 'bargain'.
I'm dead pleased :D
The drinks are on me!!!!!

Excellent! Congratulations!

Please mail my drinkS as soon as possible :D

[MiceHead]

Congrats! That's great news.

Positech is carving out a real niche.

[ragdollsoft]

Why isn't there a cliffski's achievement announcements section on the boards? :P

Great job dude. I was in PC gamer UK's free dvd once.

[radishan]

Great stuff.

Did you notice a surge in downloads or sales when the magazine went out?

[MrPhil]

Awesome! *evil homer dance*

[Chris Evans]

Congrats! :)

[lennard]

Sweet - so you'll be down at Hankies tomorrow night or was that a "virtual beer" that I can enjoy now?

All kidding aside, congratulations. Democracy seems like a great category for a designer/programmer to turn into a long term franchise.

[tentons]

Is this a sign of the times? I hope the "mainstream" gaming world is starting to realize that there's more to gaming than big guns, big boobs, and expensive system requirements.

Congrats on the review! :)

[Adrian Cummings]

Large portion! :)

[cliffski]

The magazine isn't in stores yet AFAIK, I get a subscriber copy. I never noticed big sales spikes before, although this is my best review score so far. Still very welcome though :D.

[xDan]

That's awesome! You continue to inspire wannabes like me :)

[Jamie W]

Wow, congratulations Cliffski!! More to follow hopefully. Keep up the good work.

:)

[lakibuk]

Cool. Any scans?

[BantamCityGames]

Thats really awesome because when Invadazoid was in that mag it only got like 35% or something like that... so Congrats on the great score!

[Grey Alien]

Congrats on the great mainstream review!

[RinkuHero]

Nice -- one question though, how do you get magazines like that to review your games? Do they pick it up through press releases, do you send them copies, do they just see the game and decide to review it themselves, etc.?

[vjvj]

Dude, I'm shocked they even reviewed you (and Aquaria)... That's fantastic! Maybe the mainstream media really is starting to take indie devs seriously...

Congrats on the score... Hopefully this results in some more sales :)

[cliffski]

Cheers, well it can't hurt I guess.

[cliffski]

On a related note, I have a column here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2008/02/13/the_curse_of_genre/1

submitted to digg here:

http://digg.com/pc_games/The_Curse_of_Genres

Feel free to digg me up :D

[lennard]

Cool article. I agree with what you are saying although I would say the strength of what we have in this little indie scene of ours... is that we can throw off the shackles. Democracy would have been hard pressed to be green-lit at any big shop I have worked at - too many mouths to feed. But if have the courage of your convictions, as a capable indie., you really can design and make any old (or, err, new) game you want and, we can define success in a way that big shops would define as dismal failure. I remember back in the days of SNES playing a little scroller and somebody said that the game only sold 5K units and we all rolled our eyes and pitied the folks who had lost their shirts... well, we all know that the #'s have only gotten worse for the big shops but most of us can finish and polish a game in a year and, if we get 5K units sold sold then we are doing fine.

[cliffski]

yes, in fact 5k in a year is pretty damned good, if they are $20 sales direct.

[RinkuHero]

Does any indie game sell 5k from its own site, though? I've only had 200 for my first shareware game's first 8 months, and I have the feeling even that may be higher than average.

[AnotherDev]

Congratulations sir .

[Jesse Hopkins]

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[cliffski]

Does any indie game sell 5k from its own site, though?

Yes. But it takes a while.

[Jack Norton]

selling 5k directly will take definitely more than 1 year for 99.9999% of indie games :D

[Bad Sector]

Congratulations. You also had half a page of your own in the last issue of the greek magazine PC Master, in the strategy news page :-).

[cliffski]

Oooh, thats good to hear, cheers!

[cliffski]

and another interview :D
http://digg.com/pc_games/GamingShogun_Interviews_Cliff_Harris_of_Positech

[ChrisP]

On a related note, I have a column here:

http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2008/02/13/the_curse_of_genre/1

submitted to digg here:

http://digg.com/pc_games/The_Curse_of_Genres

Feel free to digg me up :D

I dugg it before reading, on principle... then I read it and decided I would have dugg it on its merits anyway. Good article.

[Nikster]

Boxed version of your first outing and online for second outing are reviewed in this weeks micromart, if you can't get hold of a copy let me know and I'll do some scans for you.

[cliffski]

ooh I'd love some scans if poss. I'm rapidly losing track of all this. D1 even got a review in my local paper (Camberley news) somehow

[cliffski]

Yet more diggable stuff:
http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/949/Democracy_2_-_Review

http://digg.com/pc_games/GamingShogun_reviews_Democracy_2

Cheers!

[Leon]

Yet more diggable stuff:
http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/949/Democracy_2_-_Review

http://digg.com/pc_games/GamingShogun_reviews_Democracy_2

Cheers!

Dugg and shouted as well.

Good luck, cliffski.