The Remainder Expanded Edition - Coming Nov 7th, 2024 - Price Increase
Nov 7th is the date, mark it.
Do you know what we said to ourselves when we started the kickstarter for the Expanded Edition? We were building some gameplay systems for The Hunger — the next big game in the Taldun universe, and it was hard work. We said: "Boy, this thing is gonna take years, and it's already burning us out. We should do a ‘small thing, quick-like’, as a break. What if we made a definitive/director's cut of The Remainder? Shouldn't take us long, right? Four months should do it? Six tops?"
Fast forward to fourteen months later, we're finally going to launch it. I recently learned about a rule of production planning: Take what you think a project will need, and multiply it by pi, and you'll get the actual time you'll spend.
The math checks out.
Let's see just exactly how much we expanded the game, shall we?
It started at around 145,000 words, now it is 171,000.
Some of this is new deaths, some are new ending variations, and some just generally fleshing out things that were too thin or adding more flavour and interest in what we found to be bland. Now it should be a feast through and through.
On top of that, we pretty much re-wrote the entire thing over via several editing passes.
We added five new artworks, revised around twenty —a few of which significantly, composed four more ambient tracks, and added 467 unique sound effects.
Because of how much we feel the experience has been improved, we're raising the price to us$27.99. This will not affect those who already own the game.
Once the digital release is out, we will start producing the physical art, the prints, linocuts, CDs, and original artworks. It will likely be another few months before all those are done and shipped out.
After that we're onto the next story: Chronicles of Taldun - The Longing.
If you liked The Remainder, you should, probably, wish-list that.
Do you know what we said to ourselves when we started the kickstarter for the Expanded Edition? We were building some gameplay systems for The Hunger — the next big game in the Taldun universe, and it was hard work. We said: "Boy, this thing is gonna take years, and it's already burning us out. We should do a ‘small thing, quick-like’, as a break. What if we made a definitive/director's cut of The Remainder? Shouldn't take us long, right? Four months should do it? Six tops?"
Fast forward to fourteen months later, we're finally going to launch it. I recently learned about a rule of production planning: Take what you think a project will need, and multiply it by pi, and you'll get the actual time you'll spend.
The math checks out.
Let's see just exactly how much we expanded the game, shall we?
It started at around 145,000 words, now it is 171,000.
Some of this is new deaths, some are new ending variations, and some just generally fleshing out things that were too thin or adding more flavour and interest in what we found to be bland. Now it should be a feast through and through.
On top of that, we pretty much re-wrote the entire thing over via several editing passes.
We added five new artworks, revised around twenty —a few of which significantly, composed four more ambient tracks, and added 467 unique sound effects.
Because of how much we feel the experience has been improved, we're raising the price to us$27.99. This will not affect those who already own the game.
Once the digital release is out, we will start producing the physical art, the prints, linocuts, CDs, and original artworks. It will likely be another few months before all those are done and shipped out.
After that we're onto the next story: Chronicles of Taldun - The Longing.
If you liked The Remainder, you should, probably, wish-list that.