Comments on: First Look: Comet Crash

By: audifan1

audifan1 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:42:02 +0000

What a great find and a great game – well done Pelfast, and I hope you make some money out of this game !

By: theshepanator

theshepanator — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:12:33 +0000

@john, will there be an “onslaught mode” where you can just fight off a never ending stream of enemies, and will there be a map editor as DLC perhaps? This looks amazing, I was going to download savage moon but it looks like I’ll hold no to my pennies until this comes out!

By: wildthyme

wildthyme — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:01:56 +0000

Hello pelfast and thanks for making a great looking game which i might say you have given a great name ‘comet crash’ love it! I love the tower defence genre which pj mosters got me into and i enjoyed savage moon as well. I just wondered if this game might have a editor mode which you could use to create your own levels with just to spoice this up! Anyway it looks great any idea on the price and date of release in the Uk?

By: John Bates

John Bates — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:02:33 +0000

Yes, all the latest US updates ship from day one for EU.

By: almighty-slayer

almighty-slayer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:49:04 +0000

If you had given it to us when you gave it to the US i’d have bought it. But you didn’t so i wont.

By: twistedintoform

twistedintoform — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:42:43 +0000

@26 – yeah, but then a developer would still get charged the bandwidth, regardless if someone then bought the game or not. so it’s still not possible to know how much providing a ‘free’ demo will cost. somtimes a demo is a lot smaller in size than the full game, so less bandwidth, and therefore lower costs. for a massive publisher, the costs can be more easily absorbed by marketing budgets, but most psn games are not by big developers/publishers, and don’t exactly sell by the hundred thousands.. sony does have a pub fund for small developers, which for some projects will match development costs in return for a share of guaranteed revenues, maybe sony could use part of its own fund to absorb the cost of a demo in those circumstances..

By: Presskohle

Presskohle — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:38:01 +0000

@24
As I see it, the EU version launches with the added content from the beginning.

By: Liamario

Liamario — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:56:39 +0000

@23 In fairness though, there are quite a few demos where all you need for the full game is an unlock key. So in essence, you only need to post the demo. You don’t need to post up a seperate full game

By: HazelAM

HazelAM — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:25:50 +0000

1000 units?
that’s my idea of strategy, have loads more units than the other guy.
>:) that’s supposed to look a bit like a devil.

By: twistedintoform

twistedintoform — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:36:29 +0000

@john – will the EU release have the additional content that’s coming as a free update for the US version?

By: twistedintoform

twistedintoform — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:35:48 +0000

@capeview – the difference is that the psn is free for users, xbla is subsidised by subscriptions. m$ charges no further publisher costs (outside of normal costs) to host content, whereas publishing on the psn encurs (small’ish) additional charges to developers. this would make it unfair to make demos mandatory, because if you are a small company with no major publisher behind you, it’s difficult to know how much this will cost upfront, and whether you have the budget for it. sony encourages demos, but it couldn’t demand them and then charge bandwidth costs for the privilege.

By: whoismilan

whoismilan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:41:49 +0000

Seems like a fun game, I look forward to trying it out.

By: Phuquit

Phuquit — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:56:57 +0000

aaaah, independent. Jesus, thats pretty obvious.

What will the price be for this title?

By: Mike Kebby

Mike Kebby — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:59:55 +0000

From a store point of view, all minis titles will be clearly labelled to avoid any confusion for you all when you’re browsing games on the store. Sorry to jump in, just seemed like a good place to point this out

By: Capeview

Capeview — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:41:23 +0000

Unsure what to make of it really. Will have to wait for a demo really, as there are so many of these games released lately, it’s a bit like shovelware on Wii. So many lookalikes with only 1 or 2 really good ones.

It’s great that there is a lot of things able to happen on screen at once, but this can also be really drastic in ruining the experience as well due to the over crowding on screen.

For me, Monsters is probably my favourite Tower style game and anything else in the genre really has to up the stakes. Just seems like an easy cop-out to produce something that is already in the markets heavily.

Still, will hold judgement till a demo arrives, as finding no demos when the games are released to be one of the major downsides to the PSN Network. All Xbox titles for XBLA have demos when they are released with an easy option for purchase. Sony should be demanding the same thing for all PSN Devs too. Would go a long way to pleasing the end users.

By: Psyvariar

Psyvariar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:39:20 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to this since it was first announced for the US a long time ago. A nice surprise to hear this is coming to PAL regions after all.

By: John Bates

John Bates — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:52:23 +0000

The closest I’ve gotten to guitar recently is playing Rock Band It’s more an abbreviation for independent in this case, since we don’t have a separate publisher behind us.

By: Phuquit

Phuquit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:58:59 +0000

the community feedback alone has sold it for me to be honest.

Slightly random question, but what is the definition of an “indie” games company? Does that mean you all play guitar and wear tight jeans? :/

By: wing126

wing126 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:54:14 +0000

hmm that “Pelfast” was a link lol i thought someone spelled “Belfast” lol

anyway will there be a demo?

By: Golho

Golho — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:36:29 +0000

Thank you so much for bringing this game to Europe!

I’ve been waiting from the day I first say the game for it to come to Europe.