Horror-adventure Amnesia: The Dark Descent releases tomorrow. But it almost wasn’t to be, according to developers Frictional Games.
“There have been several occasions when we seriously considered dropping the project,” Thomas Grip told BeefJack today.
The game’s been rather a financial struggle for the small independent developer, whose previous game – the three-part Penumbra series – was something of an overlooked gem. “We have had to cut salaries almost in half – and they were low to start with,” said Grip. And the troubles aren’t over just because the game’s finished: “Our future as a company depends on this game not flopping, so plenty of butterflies in the stomach.”
You can read more of Thomas’ thoughts on Amnesia’s development, as well as our review of the game itself, tomorrow on BeefJack.
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Damn, Penumbra is such an interesting series and i’ve wanted to get my hands on it for ages, I’m going to read more about this game and hopefully purchase it to support the company.
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Azoth (September 7th, 2010)
I loved the penumbra series, scary as hell (nothing compared with silly games like fear or resident evil 5).
BUY THIS GAME!!
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Peter (September 7th, 2010)
BUY THE GAME
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FUCKOFFPIRATES (September 7th, 2010)
Arrrrrg…. avast ya deckswabber… swag off yerself
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Cap'nKidd (September 9th, 2010)
heard about this this morning from steam’s specials page. on my crappy work speakers i watched the trailer. i’ve been watching this game all day and bought it on steam an hour ago. i hope the frictional team hangs in there, they’re in the toughest phase trying to get off the ground.
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munchmunch (September 8th, 2010)
I remember buying the penumbra series for like nothing on steam on a bargain weekend. Only played through part of the first one but definetly need to pick it up again. It sure has some interesting stuff in it that’s for sure. They don’t deserve to be forgotten!
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Riccardo Bolzan (September 8th, 2010)
This game rocks!! I totally hope people will continue to support the creators and developers of this game. Plus, this game doesn’t make use of those silly boring and tiring cliches of the other games like RE5 and Silent Hill. Please support the people by buying this game and not by downloading pirated version.
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HonestLiar (September 20th, 2010)
Wow I couldn’t believe it when I heard these guys were struggling. I thought Frictional Games was up there. Well guess what Resident Evil and you so-called scary games, Frictional Games is coming back and there’s no way of stopping them. Amnesia and penumbra are definitely some games to play, don’t hesitate. Buy it NOW!!!
I really want to see more from Frictional Games.
I have a dream, that one day, when I go on Google, and type “#1 scariest game”, that I would see Amnesia pop up as the first site. And till that day comes, I will dream of this day every night.
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