Game News Balrum is on Steam Greenlight, coming late summer

[Vault Dweller]

It is important, imo. Bubble means the market is over-saturated and all the opportunities are long gone. The current situation is very different. In a world where successful RPGs sell million plus copies and midrange RPGs sell 400-600k copies:

Witcher 1 - 2,271,591 ± 32,659
Witcher 2 - 3,349,806 ± 39,573
Witcher 3 - 711,846 ± 18,340
Divinity: OS - 855,733 ± 20,103
Shadowrun - 830,736 ± 19,808
Wasteland 2 - 454,293 ± 14,659
Pillars - 435,390 ± 14,351
Dragonfall - 439,992 ± 14,427

Indie RPGs are scrapping at the bottom of the barrel, which suggests extremely low market penetration, which, in turn, suggests that the opportunities are still there.

^ indie RPG developers entering the market

^ A successful indie RPG developer who found a way to penetrate the market

 

[cpmartins]

I even forgot I had backed this one untill I opened up the codex and see the news blurb. Looking good so far. They had an alpha back a ways, but I decided no to touch it untill it's finished propper, much like Underrail.

 

[Vogelmannometer]

Seems pretty cool. Are there any more news on the combat system? I can't find any. Maybe I'm just too stupid to google right tough...

 

[Brayko]

It seems like an eLeKtRiFyEd version of Eschelon Books 1-3, which isn't a bad thing however my lusts are already well quelled this year w/o having to resort to Indie Welfare (tm).

 

[Blaine]

old-school... deep... epic... deep... living world... complexity... dozens of dungeons... huge... choices... dozens of quests... epic... deep....

The buzzword quotient is off the charts. I predict disaster, particularly in light of the presence of the word "epic."

 

[Andhaira]

It is important, imo. Bubble means the market is over-saturated and all the opportunities are long gone. The current situation is very different. In a world where successful RPGs sell million plus copies and midrange RPGs sell 400-600k copies:

Witcher 1 - 2,271,591 ± 32,659
Witcher 2 - 3,349,806 ± 39,573
Witcher 3 - 711,846 ± 18,340
Divinity: OS - 855,733 ± 20,103
Shadowrun - 830,736 ± 19,808
Wasteland 2 - 454,293 ± 14,659
Pillars - 435,390 ± 14,351
Dragonfall - 439,992 ± 14,427

Where are you getting your sales figures from VD?

Also Vogels model is successful for him yes, but it depends on him cranking out a game a year, each game being a remake of what he did previously. He also seems pretty bitter about this, but appears to be trapped as he is too old to get a job, and it is too financially dangerous for him to break off and try something new. (he has dependents/kids)

He got a nice boost from Steam though, as well as Humble Bundle.

edit: Vogel is also the real indie fossil, not Derek Smart. This was back when indie was called Shareware. He released Exile in 1992; I played the first spiderweb software game in around 1994. (Exile II )

 

[Vault Dweller]

It is important, imo. Bubble means the market is over-saturated and all the opportunities are long gone. The current situation is very different. In a world where successful RPGs sell million plus copies and midrange RPGs sell 400-600k copies:

Witcher 1 - 2,271,591 ± 32,659
Witcher 2 - 3,349,806 ± 39,573
Witcher 3 - 711,846 ± 18,340
Divinity: OS - 855,733 ± 20,103
Shadowrun - 830,736 ± 19,808
Wasteland 2 - 454,293 ± 14,659
Pillars - 435,390 ± 14,351
Dragonfall - 439,992 ± 14,427

Where are you getting your sales figures from VD?

SteamSpy. The numbers are fairly accurate.

 

[LESS T_T]

Greenlit: http://balconyteam.com/balrum-has-been-greenlit/

Thank you everyone for voting for us! Balrum has been Greenlit!

We are still working hard on the next beta version update. Again, thank you for helping us with your votes!

Have a great day folks!

 

[Androv]

That game seems to look a hell of a lot better at night, with the dark shader on; making most graphic assets pop out more.

Looks solid though.