The handsome men (man, really) of Zombie Cow have decided that fiftyish Rock, Paper, Shotgun readers should have the chance to purchase a copy of the most splendid Time Gentlemen, Please for half price. It’s not a competition, just a first come, first served sort of deal (our lovely subscribers got first dibs on the first round of discount copies yesterday), so if you’re after one of the best, funniest, and smartest adventure games in many years for the ludicrous price of £1.50 (that’s around $2.50), click here. Once fifty are gone, they’ll revert back to the still incredibly reasonable regular £3 ($5ish) price, and Zombie Cow’s Dan Marshall will have some money to spend on sweets and developing more games for us to play. Or maybe he’ll even extend the deal if demand’s high enough.
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ALSO: thanks everyone for your support, it’s awesome. Sorry those 50 ran out so quickly, I’ll look into doing it again when I work out whether or not it’s likely to bankrupt me.
Is there any chance that TGP will come to Steam or other DD services? Not that its a necessity , but I get the increasing feeling that the modern age requires me to have way too many accounts/passwords/emails with important URLs. I’m even considering springing for the CD for an extra $10 if the case is no. I assume the CD doesn’t also come with Ben There, Dan That, right?
@Jad
Since the download is DRM-free (right?) you could just burn it to disc yourself for a buck. That’s how I usually handle DRM-free indies, I never plan on redownloading, I just burn off a disc and pretend I bought them retail.
Yeah, I’d ignore the CD version, it’s nothing exciting. I keep turning it off, but every time I re-upload the .exe it gets switched on again. There’s no DRM waffle, so it’s probably smartest to just burn it to a dikette yourself.
@Vinraith
You’re right, I should do that. I was kind of imagining the CD to come in a nice box/jewel case or something; but now that I think of it, it probably would be just a CD in a paper sleeve.
Its more a case of forgetting I even have the game than anything — I know I have all these retail games because they’re sitting on my shelf, and I know I have these Steam games because they’re in my Steam games list, but I’m afraid that other games just can just slip through the cracks. Especially when I really have no time to play games right now, and won’t be able to get to this one for a month or so.
Anyway, this isn’t a real complaint for Zombie Cow, as I realize these problems are all my own doing. Maybe I’ll download Ben There, Dan That tonight and put the shortcut on my desktop so I’ll remember it later when I have the time to play. Put some exclamation points on the shortcut name. Yeah.
I missed the half off members only sale too, but I feel I need to buy this girl at full price and gladly will, as I hope you fine gentlemen can continue making games I enjoy immensely. Even at its current full price it is a bargain, if BTDT is anything to go by. I’m ashamed to admit I only recently (yesterday) finished BTDT but I had been going through an Adventure Gamoritorium there for a bit. Your singular game reawakened my desire to puzzle and explore with a VENGEANCE! Thank You, Good Sirs.
@Jad
Yeah, it’s getting harder and harder to organize things because of all the different places from which games come these days. I have games on a multitude of download services, retail boxes, and downloaded burned discs, and like you I’ve accumulating a pile of stuff I haven’t touched and need to remember I have. Personally, I just keep a list of “stuff I need to play” so I don’t forget, but believe me I understand the problem.
I personally dump shortcuts to everything non-Steam in a ‘Games’ folder – when something gets uninstalled, the shortcut blanks out, so I get handy reminder of what I own and I what I’ve actually got installed. You can just add non-Steam games to your games list, of course!
Oh, and I’m one of the lucky few who took an early lunch break and stumbled upon this – so many thanks to Ben and Dan, and I’ll be sure to spread the word!
bought game for full price and kicked back the suggested retail donation for ben there dan that
Bought and I also thought it was about time I subscribed as well. Someone has to keep Kieron in penny chews after all.
You guys do realise that there’s this thing in Windows called a Start menu, don’t you? All the games you’ve installed are there. In a folder called “Games”, if you’re organised.
Speaking of adventure games:
http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2009/08/unfinished-last-express-prequel/
http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2009/03/the-last-express-remixed/
I just wanted to post this singular comment in order to show my acquiescence to my all benevolent Hivemind Overlords. Just this once… ;)
I still game on XP primarily and I have 8 separate folders (Action, Adventure, FPS, MMO-Online, Platform, Puzzle, RPG and Strategy) nestled in my Games folder which is nestled in my Start Menu. I use that classification system for Vista as well, though, because sometimes I think I have too many games. Other times I know I have too many installed when I sit there for 20 minutes trying to decide what to play… There’s actually 9 subdivisions if I count my “Controller” folder I use when I game on my HDTV upstairs.
Nice share from Mr. Mechner’s page as well. Thank you.
@Ginger Yellow
I tend to only install things when I intend to use them.
I will buy anything that is less than the price of a pint.
Damn! I just checked and it’s back to $5.
…
I guess I’ll buy it anyway.
I’ve gotten more fun and playtime out of this game than DoW II ($50 USD) and Empire: Total War ($80 AUD).
But I’m a bit weird and I’m shit at strategery.
I bought this the other day as a game for my netbook in prep for the month-and-a-half I have here in Kiev. Thing is, I added the same amount again as a donation for Ben There, Dan That – the way I saw it, I was happy to pay six bob for these. That half price is just ludicrous (and more fool me for not yet changing my PayPal email to one that I ever bother to check…)
But, hooray for sensible (well, really mad pricing in this case – but the right end of the mad pricing spectrum) priced indie games. I’m getting a bit annoyed by the occasional announcement of a mildly intersting but short indie game being flogged online for over 15 quid. I don’t even pay that much for major games, I wait until retail goes down. Thing is, online game prices don’t ever seem to drop with age
Another one of their games, Gibbage, is on special offer now too:
http://bit.ly/8QknN
Demo here: http://www.zombie-cow.com/?page_id=15
^in fact, I saw that on their twitter, maybe they’ll announce more special offers there too
http://twitter.com/thezombiecow
Finally bought this, its genius. Shot in the cock indeed. (And, in case the good gentlemen
But; good people of RPS, I am really effin’ stuck with the boot disk. I know all the data (I think) but it just tells me I did it wrong. Can’t find a walkthrough that gives what exactly I have to type in and I NEED MORE. Are there any trips? Do I have to type, e.g., “42″ rather than “v4.2″ as the version #, cus it gives vX.X as the format?
Or am I just doing something stupidly wrong? (This, I guess, would be hard for people to gauge.)
v4.2 IIRC.
A walkthrough is here: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/06/time_gentlemen_please.php