Well, they probably won’t, as they’ve had it for years, but the fact that there’s only 32 of them is still worth mentioning. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Polish Casual Game Developers Codeminion have released the first game they ever developed, Pteroglider, for free. Why are they making such an act of generosity? “Basically the game was a commercial failure.” they say, ” It sold an outstanding number of 32 copies worldwide and simply (from today’s perspective) was a bad game in our opinion”. More of Codeminion’s comments and some analysis of my own, beneath the cut.
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Pteroglider For Free (aka 32 people get right narked)
By Kieron Gillen on May 20th, 2008.
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