Enjoy the Midweek Madness! The Forgotten City is at 40% off
On July 29th, 2022, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of The Forgotten City release date. On this occasion, Modern Storyteller founder Nick Pearce shared a few words about the journey it has been and what these 12 months have been like.
Tweet thread originally published on Modern Storyteller's Twitter account. Read the original thread.
“Today is the one year anniversary of the launch of The Forgotten City, so I've been reflecting on what's changed for us in the last 12 months.
Launching the game has been a life-changing experience for me personally...
Before launch I'd been working 80 hours a week, for several years, and suffering from insomnia, worrying about whether the game would do well enough that we'd get to continue making games. A year on, I'm working normal human being hours, and sleeping like a log.
But it has taken a surprisingly long time to get to this point. I think most people assume that once you launch a game, the hard work is done, and it's time to put your feet up, or start work on a new game, but I've learned that that's far from the case.
In fact, we spent about 5 months after launch busily providing tech support to users, and we received about a hundred requests for interviews, which are quite time-consuming, and in the end I had to start turning them down.
We were nominated for a bunch of awards, and even managed to win some, which meant attending award ceremonies (including DICE in Las Vegas!) and recording several acceptance speech videos.
And of course we were porting the game to additional platforms, including most recently, Steam Deck. All that has kept Alex and I quite busy until fairly recently. Now that the post-launch phase is over, and because The Forgotten City was so well-received, our little team is finally working full-time on a new game. We can't wait to tell you about it, when it's ready. But it feels completely different for me because this time it's motivated entirely by the love of making games, rather than existential terror.
Making games has become fun, again. And I hope that comes across, when you eventually get to play it.”
Since then, the journey continued and The Forgotten City has been acclaimed again, especially by being included in the top 100 PC games published by PC Gamers, an annual list of the 100 PC games you should be playing.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-top-100-pc-games-2022/#section-100-91
If you wish to experience The Forgotten City, it is now at 40% off from October 17th to October 20th.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/
Tweet thread originally published on Modern Storyteller's Twitter account. Read the original thread.
“Today is the one year anniversary of the launch of The Forgotten City, so I've been reflecting on what's changed for us in the last 12 months.
Launching the game has been a life-changing experience for me personally...
Before launch I'd been working 80 hours a week, for several years, and suffering from insomnia, worrying about whether the game would do well enough that we'd get to continue making games. A year on, I'm working normal human being hours, and sleeping like a log.
But it has taken a surprisingly long time to get to this point. I think most people assume that once you launch a game, the hard work is done, and it's time to put your feet up, or start work on a new game, but I've learned that that's far from the case.
In fact, we spent about 5 months after launch busily providing tech support to users, and we received about a hundred requests for interviews, which are quite time-consuming, and in the end I had to start turning them down.
We were nominated for a bunch of awards, and even managed to win some, which meant attending award ceremonies (including DICE in Las Vegas!) and recording several acceptance speech videos.
And of course we were porting the game to additional platforms, including most recently, Steam Deck. All that has kept Alex and I quite busy until fairly recently. Now that the post-launch phase is over, and because The Forgotten City was so well-received, our little team is finally working full-time on a new game. We can't wait to tell you about it, when it's ready. But it feels completely different for me because this time it's motivated entirely by the love of making games, rather than existential terror.
Making games has become fun, again. And I hope that comes across, when you eventually get to play it.”
Since then, the journey continued and The Forgotten City has been acclaimed again, especially by being included in the top 100 PC games published by PC Gamers, an annual list of the 100 PC games you should be playing.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-top-100-pc-games-2022/#section-100-91
If you wish to experience The Forgotten City, it is now at 40% off from October 17th to October 20th.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/