The campaign was successful enough that Shadwen’s launch price was brought down to $14.55, from an initial $35 pricepoint. The higher the Community Score, the greater the discount Frozenbyte would offer on Shadwen at launch. An overall Community Score was tallied up by taking every player into account. The crux of the demo discount campaign is this: Steam player stats were collected for all players who downloaded and played the demo. In a Gamasutra interview, Frozenbyte’s Marketing Manager Kai Tuovinen spoke of how, as a relatively small indie studio, Frozenbyte didn’t expect a demo of the game to elicit significant interest in and of itself, and conceptualized the demo discount campaign to give Shadwen greater visibility. In addition to giving players a taste of what was to come in May, the demo was also a part of a unique promotional campaign. In February, Frozenbyte released a playable demo of Shadwen. As shown in the announcement trailer, physics-based environmental kills-such as rolling barrels onto enemies-can add to the straight-up stealth aspects of the game. As with the Trine games, Frozenbyte makes extensive use of environmental physics in Shadwen, for platforming and combat. Shadwen runs on an in-house engine, and features an implementation of Nvidia PhysX. Shadwen’s time-manipulation feature was also highlighted. The announcement was accompanied by a one and a half minute debut trailer focusing on the game’s core mechanics-platforming, assassinations and physics-based environmental kills were showcased.
This brought the final launch price down to just $14.55.
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The demo was used to promote the upcoming full release of the game in a unique manner: Shadwen’s launch price was discounted for every person who installed and played the demo. A playable demo of Shadwen arrived on Steam in February, giving players a taste of Shadwen’s core mechanics.
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Shadwen is powered by Frozenbyte’s in-house engine, and is slated to release in May 2016, for PC and PS4. Trine 3: Artifacts of Power launched to mixed reviews last August. There is a feeling that contemporary AAA titles have little space for stealth-even the Assassin’s Creed series, positioned by Ubisoft as a “social stealth” franchise eschews skill-based evasion and platforming for sheer spectacle.įrozenbyte is best-known for their Trine series of puzzle-platformers. Shadwen is set to be a return to form for the stealth genre, going back to the skill and mechanics-driven gameplay of the early Thief games.
Shadwen is an upcoming first person stealth/action title by independent Finnish developer Frozenbyte.
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