The Final Countdown


Dee da dee doo, dee da dee da dee...

One week remains before the launch of Arcade Spirits and hype levels (along with rising anxiety levels) are soaring. Once the 12th hits and the game drops things are going to get very interesting 'round these parts... but even in the week prior, we've got interestingness in dangerous amounts.

I'm keeping our homepage up to date with links to new press, streamers, and videos as they're made available. For instance, do you speak German or have Google Translate handy? If so you may like this glowing review of our game. Want to hear interviews with the devs? Sure thing -- Stefan was on the GameGrin podcast recently, and Aenne, Molly, and Steph spoke to Gaming Access Weekly about inclusivity and our design philosophy.

Want to watch someone play the game? Okay -- StumptGamers will be streaming our game TODAY, Monday Feb 4th, at 3pm Eastern. Later this week, LoadingReadyRun streams it Friday Feb 8, 12:30pm Eastern. We're also arranging for a charity stream to play it, with details to come. Many, many, many other streamers and youtubers will be diving in starting Feb 12th and we'll be linking to as many as we can when that starts.

(One note, though. Generally speaking we're going to collect links to all content we can, but we draw the line at anyone who mocks the game or its entirely optional pronoun feature. Negative reviews are just dandy, criticism is great... but when it's a thin excuse to make fun of us or disrespect anyone's gender, nothankyou.jpg. We won't issue DMCA or takedowns or anything, that'd be silly and evil, but we also don't have to promote their content.)

Lastly, if you want to preorder, we've got options on the table from itchio, greenmangaming, and humblebundle. ALL of these will get you Steam keys, so pick your favorite. Me, I like itchio, because it offers a great developer split -- but it's entirely up to you. Or don't pre-order! That's fine too, we'll have a matching discount for launch week on Steam itself. You won't miss out.

Not long now. Not long at all...

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Hi there! Thinking about getting the game from itch.io but to be sure: the Steam key is a "bonus" and we still get a DRM-less version from itch, right?

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That's correct! You get both a direct DRM-free download from itch, and a bonus Steam key. (The Steam version is also DRM-free, for that matter. DRM sucks and is anti-consumer)

Awesome! You got a sale then :)

Nice touch on using Steam merely as a launcher/organizer/downloader. Not many do that. At the moment I can't use it because of the recent support drop for older Windows, but it's good to know.

And if I may fanboy a bit, I'm super happy to see Stefan is still creating after all these years. Big fan from the NWN days ;)

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I've been wanting to get back in the swing of game development since leaving NWN. I learned one key thing in my NWN days... I cannot be a one-man-band of a game studio. I burned out hard doing that. But this time I have a great team backing me up and together we've carved out the game of our dreams. Hope you enjoy!