" ... coming soon for Linux..."
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Indie game made by 2 people out-selling Spore, Left 4 Dead, & Fallout 3 at Amazon
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#22Shockingly popular indie games aren't really anything new--its just that people seem to be noticing them more, especially in this day and age of extremely high budget games. People are always surprised to see one or two-man projects earning money on the same level as games like Crysis, but it seems to have been going on for quite a while.
See my post at http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=398305 for another example of a very successful indie game developer.
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#24That's very cool -- has it been like that for a while or is it temporary spike? I remember when my book hit #56 on Amazon for one hour, right after it was reviewed by Slashdot. I was so happy to have a screenshot where I was just ahead of Michael Pollan.
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#25Update: now it's #1!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/videogames/229575/ref=p...
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#26I feel like Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead are probably moving better through retail and Steam. Amazon isn't exactly the marketplace where gamers go to order games so they can wait a few days to play it. Most games I buy are impulse purchases, and if I can't have it now then I can't be bothered to get it. World of Goo seems like the kind of game that parents and non-gamers would buy, and I would guess that that demographic shops more on Amazon.
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#27i bought the Wii version (it's online in the Wii store or whatever it's called) for $15. It's a lot of fun.
I also bought the Wii version, makes great use of the Wiimote. Lots-O-Fun, Highly recommended.
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#28" ... coming soon for Linux..." :(
Cheer up! At least it's coming to Linux :-)
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> with a dark undertone reminiscent of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I'm confused... I thought the Burton/Depp version was more recent than the Stuart/Wilder version? Or are you referring to the original novel?
Both movies had somewhat dark undertones. I know many people were freaked out by the Wilder "tunnel" sequence -- apparently enough to get the movie on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments list.
Don't forget the "We'll be chopped up by the exhaust fans unless we start burping" and the "fat kid gets stuck in a pipe until the pressure blasts him out". Oh, and Wonka's creepy counterspy guy.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> with a dark undertone reminiscent of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I'm confused... I thought the Burton/Depp version was more recent than the Stuart/Wilder version? Or are you referring to the original novel?
Both movies had somewhat dark undertones. I know many people were freaked out by the Wilder "tunnel" sequence -- apparently enough to get the movie on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments list.
I can understand that, but I read the novel in childhood. To me, the 70's film's scariness seemed superficial and insincere compared with the 00's version. (Which is not what you'd expect, given that I was still a kid when I saw the first film version.) Maybe it's just Depp's portrayal pushing the "creepy" meter to 11 is what did it for me. (Wilder's seemed resigned to each child's fate, while Depp's possessed morbid fascination with each "accident.")