Puppygames mentioned on Penny Arcade

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  1. wazoo

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    http://www.penny-arcade.com/

    Right there on the homepage I see a mention of Cas and crew's "Revenge of the Titans".

    Booya! Hopefully you get a sale or two from that man. ;)
     
    #1 wazoo, Jan 12, 2011
  2. jpoag

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    A sale or two, perhaps a crashed server. Lol, back in the day it was called getting 'slashdotted', now it's "PA'd" (only slightly different than "PAid" ).
     
    #2 jpoag, Jan 12, 2011
  3. bantamcitygames

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    Wow... congrats Cas! Between this and the humble bundle we better not hear you still complaining about 'just barely making enough to survive'... blah blah blah... we're not buying it anymore! :p
     
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  4. Jack Norton

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    No no he still does. But you have to understand, golden plated toilet paper is expensive! :D
     
    #4 Jack Norton, Jan 12, 2011
  5. princec

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    My bogroll is made from £20 notes.

    PA doesn't seem to have had any effect particularly though that I've noticed yet. Server's still alive, sales still ticking over at minimum wage or thereabouts.

    Cas :)
     
    #5 princec, Jan 12, 2011
  6. vjvj

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    Kids are just getting out of school now here in the US... So maybe there's still a good sales surge looming around the corner?
     
    #6 vjvj, Jan 12, 2011
  7. princec

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    Bah, kids have no money.

    Cas :)
     
    #7 princec, Jan 12, 2011
  8. ionside

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    Well, at least more people are aware of your games now. :)
     
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  9. princec

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    Yes, that's always good. Interestingly nowhere near the volume or quality of traffic that RockPaperShotgun drove though.

    Cas :)
     
    #9 princec, Jan 12, 2011
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    You're making minimum wage? Just keep rubbin' it in Cas, just keep rubbin' it in.
     
    #10 lennard, Jan 12, 2011
  11. princec

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    :cool: C'mon, it's taken me what 9 years to get to minimum wage!

    Cas :)
     
    #11 princec, Jan 12, 2011
  12. cyodine

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    Between Rock Paper Shotgun and the Humble Indie Bundle your game has saturated the entire market so thoroughly, there isn't any market left that hasn't heard of it. ;)

    So stop hogging the publicity and share some of it with the rest of us! ;)
     
    #12 cyodine, Jan 13, 2011
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    LOL, good point! All the same, congrats on the progress (and thanks for the little nugget about RPS...).
     
    #13 vjvj, Jan 13, 2011
  14. Jack Norton

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    Well as soon as you moved from a dead genre (shooters/arcade) and made a game like RoTT (RTS) you instantly made x100 more money. So, next game...;)
     
    #14 Jack Norton, Jan 13, 2011
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    More RTS of course :) Sort of. And online.

    For everyone's information, eventually we had a sales spike of about five times normal daily sales. Now all we need is another 200 sites like Penny Arcade to blog Revenge once a day for the next 200 days and we'll be quite well off :)

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    Oh yeah.

    Cas :)
     
    #15 princec, Jan 13, 2011
  16. zoombapup

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    Wow, those look so..... classy :)
     
    #16 zoombapup, Jan 13, 2011
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    #17 lennard, Jan 13, 2011
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    Especially after drinking some Danziger Goldwasser, for that double golden flush experience.
     
    #18 Adrian Lopez, Jan 14, 2011
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