[20100116] Evil Aliens now available on PC!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
COAMITHRA, creator of the hit indie-game REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS (over 100 copies sold!),
is pleased to announce the release of REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS for PERSONAL COMPUTERS running MICROSOFT WINDOWS OS worldwide!
In REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS, players take control of the starship THE UNNAMED HERO to do BATTLE with thousands of alien ships
and monsters, visiting such exotic locales as SPACE, MARS and ALIEN BASE. A gradually unlocking campaign tells the EPIC story
of JACK PERIL, an ex-space marine commando, and his quest to save the world from the EVIL ALIEN OVERMIND.
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was rated by notable website INDIETANK.COM with a 5/5 and described as "ONE OF THE BEST XNA GAMES OUT THERE".
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was rated by notable website GAME-PAD.NET with a 4/5 and described as "A WINNER"
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was rated by notable website MISTERRANDOM.NET with a 4/5 and described as "GREAT FUN TO PLAY".
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was rated by notable website HOMEBREWWELT.COM with a 3.5/5 and described as "RECHT NETT GEMACHT".
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was reviewed by notable website XNPLAY.CO.UK and described as "UTTERLY STUPID".
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was reviewed by notable website SMALLCAVEGAMES.BLOGSPOT.COM and described as "EYE-CATCHING" and "SOLID".
REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS was rated by notable website GAYGAMER.NET with a "YAY" and described as "FRESH THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH".
Key features:
- Innovative dual stick control for 360 degree MOVING AND SHOOTING!*
- Keyboard and mouse based control for ENHANCED ACCURACY!
- Aliens!
- Multiplayer!*
- Missions!
- Selectable Difficulty!
In accordance with the RACE TO THE BOTTOM, REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS will be made available for the BARGAIN PRICE of ZERO DOLLARS US (approximately € 0,-).
To download REVENGE OF THE EVIL ALIENS, consumers are advised to follow the instructions on the game's OFFICIAL WEBSITE.
*requires Xbox 360 Controller
[20091110] Communications opened
A new private communications channel has been added to the website, courtesy of Digsby. Now you can tell me how much you love me!
[20091021] Price drop tomorrow
The great price experiment starts tomorrow. That is all.
Actually, it's not. I found out that there is a written counterpart
to the video review done by Beefjack, and have added the link. What's interesting is that Charles McManamy tells the viewer that he
is "tempted to buy" the game in his video review, and then discusses the full length game on his blog. That means he probably caved in and bought the game! Thanks Charles!
[20091019] Late review
j00ce, conspicuously secretive about his true identity, got it.
[20091015] I hear the guy from the vibrator game made 20 million
Somewhere this month, possibly tomorrow, the price of Revenge of the Evil Aliens will drop to 80 points, down from 200, to comply with the new pricing policy. Personally I find this price preposterous and insulting and was therefore planning on increasing it to 240 instead.
However, this automatic price change allows me to circumvent the usual three month waiting time on changing the price of admission, a measure undoubtedly instated to prevent the system from collapsing into anarchy.
This enables a unique experiment of rapid price iteration. With the game's sales having stabilized (at a rather pathetic level), I should be able to get a fair view of the effect of pricing on sales.
Therefore:
Revenge of the Evil Aliens has been 200 points for quite some time.
It will be 80 points soon, and remain that way for a few weeks.
It will then skyrocket to a whopping 400, where it will rest for at least three months.
The sales figures for the three levels will be interesting. Somehow I feel that lowering the price will have no effect while raising it will reduce sales significantly. But I'm a pessimist.
[20090818] Another interview for to read! And a contest!
Kris Steele, of xboxindies.com and developer of upcoming game Nasty, asked me some questions over msn and managed to knead the responses into something resembling coherence!
By way of mutual promotion, I have offered him two game codes for Revenge of the Evil Aliens, which can be claimed by no more than a simple message on twitter!
[20090817] A flick of the wrist, a bright spark, and then... nothing
I am writing this message from hostile territory: an unfamiliar OS where control is called command and is positioned where windows should be. This is necessary because my own PC has perished.
The game codes that were seeded have since blossomed into healthy reviews. I will share these with you now.
Joerg, or perhaps one of his lackeys, over at Homebrewwelt.com has penned a German review. If this frightens you, allow me to provide a hilarious translation.
Secondly, the up-and-coming review site game-pad.net has a dual-type review of which you should probably only read the second part.
[20090801] Stuff what is brewing
Apparently the only requisite for acceptance was to replace "Community" with "Indie". Subsequent to the name change a multitude of reviewers have crawled out of the woodworks. We are now all the rage!
Game Codes (perhaps not so much the name change but these have sparked all this interest) have been sent to various supplicants. Expect addenda to the Reviews section soon! In addition, I have a scheduled msn chat with xboxindies.com, which will undoubtedly feature more self-promotion.
In other news, I may have found a partner for a possible sequel! Wouldn't that be neat!
[20090724] Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You too will get old.
In an effort to drum up awareness, Microsoft are redesigning the Community Games channel. This means pricing changes and that, my friends, means that I will increase the price of Revenge of the Evil Aliens to 240 Microsoft Points. I am confident that the hundred of sales this game has enjoyed more than warrant this 20% price increase.
The price will change exactly on "somewhere before October 22", which is the date on which Microsoft will otherwise lower it to a laughable 80 points.
On the bright side this allows me to go over the 50 meg limit. A size that fit my game only just. Not unlike Microsoft's recent addition of Silverlight, this will probably mean more and cooler advertisements!
Buy Revenge of the Evil Aliens now while it's still cheap(er)!
[20090705] Negative Gamer's negative review
A Google Alert for that other project I've worked on informed me of a site called Negative Gamer. I liked what I saw and started reading some of the articles. Turns out they do Community Games reviews! Turns out mine's in there as well! I don't know how Google missed them but maybe I should have been glad it did because...
Turns out they honored their name and shat all over it! To be honest I don't really know why I put negative reviews on this site. In the interest of full disclosure, I guess? Or perhaps because my ego is so massive! The rest of their site is pretty neat tho - I, for one, am adding it to my RSS feeds!
[20090702] Epic sales milestone
Word has reached me that Revenge of the Evil Aliens has now officially made one hundred sales! Incidentally, none of those have been made in France.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect it to do better but like my music guy said: a hundred sales is better than a kick in the face. The mostly positive reviews have been a great consolation.
For those of you with an obsessive interest in my personal finances, that's 2.50 * 70% * 0.71 = 124 euro for me. Almost enough to buy Rock Band. I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of money on assets or marketing. Would a $500 spamvertisement have resulted in over 285 extra sales? I doubt it.
[20090627] I am so happy right now
Nick the Dude, of the formidable XNARoundup video podcast, shows only trial footage in his review of Revenge of the Evil Aliens. I suspect he may have pocketed the enormous sum of money I sent him to purchase the full version with! I am on to you, NickTheDude!
Nevertheless, his treatment of the game is all I could have ever wished for. <3
[20090625] New review
Max Braff, who has a website called The Jig Brigade, informed me that he had reviewed my game. He appended this message with the words "thought you might like it" which, having some experience with The Internet's sense of humor, made me fear that he had burned it to the ground.
As an interesting aside, 13% of the people who bought my game wrote a review about it!
PS: He didn't (burn it to the ground)!
[20090622] A torrent of reviews - positive reviews!
The web has been figuratively flooded with Revenge of the Evil Aliens reviews! It would almost seem disproportionate to squeeze them all into a single newspost.
Spearing off is XNPlay with my favourite review to date (not that there's a contest going on, I love all my pretties. Except you, IGN. Go sit in the corner). XNPlay, you had me at "utter stupidity". I have but one complaint which is the author claiming the game too easy, which merely means it wasn't played on Hard. Perhaps he could have called it "too medium".
The second review to catch my eye is a tiny blurb on 411mania that actually does nothing except quote my own tiny blurb and then proceed with a recommendation to "buy all of this". Yes, dear reader, it's bizarro reverse IGN! But I am not one to complain.
Thirdly we have the good people of Small Cave Games who, despite their confusion which I feel I have cleared up concisely in the comments section, awarded the game with a B and two emblems! This is probably a good score in the metric system!
Our fourth speaker today is Quanrian, whose review, even though marked as unofficial will be added to the official review section. There is simply nothing he can do to stop me, and I don't see how a forum post can be more or less official than some guy's blog these days.
And last, but definitely not least: ExL Studios, stroking my ego like a kitten, offering me an interview on their website! How could I refuse, susceptible to flattery as I am (warning: review may induce boredom). As if this weren't enough, they have also placed a fully featured review of my game. Thanks a lot, ExL Studios!
When tallying these scores this puts me at 7 in favor and 2 against. I guess that makes Revenge of the Evil Aliens 22% rotten! Or maybe 78% rotten. I'm never quite sure how that works.
PS: It seems my public appearance has already born fruit: two sassy ladies have replied to the interview to declare their love! My colleague David Goemans (twitter) (blog) tells me it's probably some dude with a beard- such negativism!
[20090617] Xbox LIVE snafu :(
If you are one of the 100 people who were going to download the Revenge of the Evil Aliens trial today then have been sorely disappointed!
After the Xbox LIVE update of last tuesday, something has gone horribly amiss, leaving all of last week's releases stuck in the void. Revenge of the Evil Aliens has ceased to exist.
What's worse is that a certain new release in the LIVE Arcade department has now also missed its deadline - one for which we were expecting more than 100 trial downloads today! The ambiance at the launch party was, shall we say, tentative.
Update: I just received an email that the game has been approved for the marketplace! I guess that's code for "we fixed it."
[20090616] Two positive reviews!
Just in time to collect my ego, so violently shattered, come two absolutely delightful reviews!
Charles McManamy at Beef Jack thought I wouldn't notice that he had the difficulty turned down all the way to Easy, and tried to dazzle me by making Evil Aliens his title of the week. But I'm on to you, Charles! Only big boys get to fight the Overmind!
Speaking of big boys, we also got a "yay" from gaygamer.net, so that must mean we're doing well with the gay demographic, a segment known for consisting solely of trendsetters and market leaders! Eat that, IGN!
[20090612] RSS
Thanks to a handy site called page2rss I too can have an RSS feed - and without having to do any programming! What will they think of next?
[20090612] If it is weak, either kill it or ignore it. Anything else honors it.
To my dismay I found my game featured in IGN's Cold Soup list today! And I use the term "featured" lightly: the article deems the game unworthy of even a single word of critique. I guess neither its flaws nor its virtues merit more than a passing mention. I have demanded an explanation via the following letter: (to be read in an angry voice)
,,Hey Sam,
I saw you placed my game (Revenge of the Evil Aliens) in the Cold Soup section, under the flattering "more cold soup" header which means it didn't even get a review to highlight its (apparently apparent) flaws. Does that make it better or worse than Cyber Racer 2060? At least I now know it's on par with Tic Tac Toe and Illusions 360...
I have to ask though, did you play the game, or is "more cold soup" just code for "games we didn't even really try"?''
In other news, using a makeshift cooling system fashioned out of towels and blankets, Andrew Russell of rustedviews managed to run a copy of Evil Aliens long enough to properly review it. Unfortunately, he wasn't very impressed. I guess his 3/5 score nicely rounds out the spectrum of possible reviews so far :/
[20090611] First Review!
Google Alerts, diligently scouring the web for any whisper of the words "Evil", "Alien" or "Revenge" has informed me that the good people of ExL Studios have already posted a review of the game. And they liked it!
[20090610] Evil Aliens are LIVE!
Hurrah! The game has succesfully past Peer Review and is now for sale on the Xbox Community Games channel. Impress your friends with Revenge of the Evil Aliens! CLICK ON MARKETPLACE NOW GO GO GO!
[20090607] All Website Are Go!
Welcome to the official Revenge of the Evil Aliens website! Revenge of the Evil Aliens is a game for Xbox, available on the Community Games tab for 200 Microsoft Space Bucks®.
Check out the Trailer to see what the game is all about, then quickly hit Marketplace to download it directly to your Xbox 360 game console!
Use the above menu to navigate the website. Any updates or news will be posted here on the front page.
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