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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Aveyond Music Pack
I was checking my stats for the last couple of months, and I found that only about 1 in 8 people who download the fantasy RPG Aveyond also download the free music pack that goes with it.The music pack works just fine with the demo. I promise! :)
Okay, there's an ulterior motive at work, here. The music to Aveyond is pretty high quality - especially the intro music during the opening credits. It's really sweeping and epic-sounding without being overblown or overly dramatic. Quite appropriate for a game that starts with a village farm-girl who is about to get sucked into world-shattering events. In fact, I've heard from some people who said that the opening credits with the soundtrack was what got them hooked on the game from the outset.
Since I know how addictive the game can be, I wish to encourage that all I can. More free music packs getting downloaded could equal more sales or something like that. After all, it's only bandwidth, and this insignificant little website doesn't come close to consuming all it can. And maybe more sales will help pay for that unused bandwidth or something. So if you've downloaded Aveyond but not the music pack, please feel free to do so.
You can download the music pack by clicking on this link.
If you haven't downloaded either, well, I really suck at marketing. But you guys already knew that. But you can check out the Aveyond page by clicking on the link below:Aveyond: Almost Certainly 2006's Indie RPG of the Year
(Not only because it rocks, but because there were so few indie RPGs that came out this year. And I'm not helping that any! I'm such a slacker!)
Labels: Aveyond, Game Announcements, Roleplaying Games
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I don't know any of the file sizes involved, but if the intro music is so important, wouldn't it make more sense to split the intro from the rest and include it in the main download?
That might not be a bad idea, I'll have to recommend that.
I know the download size is a big factor - the game is already sitting at about a 22 megabyte download, which is a little painful if you don't have broadband. I've had one person complain about the download size already (because she was on dial-up). The music pack is an additional 18.1 megs, but maybe the intro music by itself might not add too much.
I know the download size is a big factor - the game is already sitting at about a 22 megabyte download, which is a little painful if you don't have broadband. I've had one person complain about the download size already (because she was on dial-up). The music pack is an additional 18.1 megs, but maybe the intro music by itself might not add too much.
I tried the demo, and it wasn't bad...but I got to the part where the girl, having been captured and sold as a slave to an abusive family, suddenly discovers she has magic powers.
Oddly, there was no option in the game for her to now kill her former masters, burn down the town they lived in and salt the earth so that nothing would grow there again. So I stopped playing.
Oddly, there was no option in the game for her to now kill her former masters, burn down the town they lived in and salt the earth so that nothing would grow there again. So I stopped playing.
We've been toying with the concept of really pushing music and animation as a reward mechanic in our next title. (And why not? People like pretty, moving things, and they like noises.) Aveyond's intro, of all things, help push us in favor of this experimentation -- I think it's a great sequence.
I'm thinking about billing the game as a musical.
"The sun'll come ooooout.... Tomorrow... With spaceships... Bet your bottom credit that tomorrow..." (Maybe not that bit.)
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I'm thinking about billing the game as a musical.
"The sun'll come ooooout.... Tomorrow... With spaceships... Bet your bottom credit that tomorrow..." (Maybe not that bit.)
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