before i do that though i’d like to point out that i love lilt line & am very happy i made it. this will not turn out to be a whining post about how piracy is ruining the industry, the world owes me more money, gamers are not discerning enough & all pensioners are sluts or anything like that. i threw that pensioner reference in at the end to check you were still paying attention.

right so here’s a chart* for you:

lilt line’s price has remained pretty steady at £1.79 / $2.99. you can probably work out by yourself that i am not a millionaire. yet.

all very interesting, and a lovely reagan-era bar chart, you might be thinking, but what is the point of this ramble? well, gaijin games, fully (or at least partially – sorry guys!) aware of the iphone sales, were determined to bring the game to the wii anyway. they knew it might well struggle to make money (or at least sort of knew – sorry again guys!). but they made it anyway, because they love the game. and i love them for that. how many companies do you know that would do something like that? don’t you think they deserve just a little bit of payback?

if memory serves i also get a slice of the pie, but that’s incidental and nothing to do with the general thrust of this noble, principled blog post.

right so here comes the big finish and plea for money:

~ lilt line wiiware is coming to europe this friday, march 11th ~

so far the wii version has sold 3,756 copies in the us. if we don’t get past a threshold around twice that in america nintendo will never pay us anything.

the eu store has a similar threshold.

you know what to do.


* disclaimer: numbers might not be 100% accurate. i had to appoximate based on income as i don’t keep formal records. or indeed informal ones. also this is the first time i’ve ever approximated based on income. in fact i’m not even sure what that means.

1 ~ secret project!

first off we have a confession to make: we’ve been working on a secret project.

the reasons that it has been kept secretive are as follows:

a) we haven’t told anybody about it
b) nobody has asked

this screen is from the current prototype, the final version probably won’t look anything like it:

it’s for the iphone, and it’s due for release late spring/early summer/premature autumn.

unfortunately we cannot reveal any further details on this project at this time – despite the overwhelming lack of interest that it has so far failed to generate (see reasons a and b above).

2 ~ something on a console

we are looking to get a downloadable game onto a console in the first half of the year; possibly with the help of some friends.

i know, what a pathetically vague announcement. if you think that was disappointing, though, just wait for the next one.

3 ~ maybe something on a personal computer

we have an all new brand spanking freshly buffed organically reared game idea which we hope to be able to release for PC this year at some point.

this one involves a crazy kind of flight simulation. haven’t started it yet though, so let’s pencil in a chillingly late winter release date.

watch the engines flicker into hyperdrive and listen to the avian warblings as we burn up the clouds and race towards planet sozialolos.

yeah, it’s a german planet with predominantly greek inhabitants.