UPDATE 26/02/2016 5.37pm Shadwen's upcoming launch price has dropped from $35 to $24 after only two days of this latest promotion.
The developer noted that there's been over 10k downloads and 1.5m points acquired by users. The promotion runs for another three days so at this rate Shadwen might launch for a very cheap price indeed.
In other Frozenbyte news, CEO and design director Lauri Hyvärinen took to
Reddit for an AMA wherein they addressed the backlash to Trine 3. When asked about whether the studio would ever add more content to the infamously brief Trine 3, Hyvärinen said, "We will continue to update the game, and hopefully some day we are able to publish also more content to it. We added one small level in November and the user-created content has been flowing in constantly."
The developer explained that they're proud of Trine 3, but understands the criticism it received over its length and hopes that Frozenbyte's first foray into full 3D won't be for nothing as a lot of the lessons learned can be applied to Shadwen.
"We built our success solely on Trine franchise, and with Trine 3 we destroyed all the hard work overnight, leaving us with very few pieces to start over with," Hyvärinen said. "With Trine 3 majority of technical work went to the 3D movement, and we greatly underestimated the work needed. However, now we have that work done it would be foolish not to use that as a foundation, and that's how Shadwen was initially designed."
"Personally I don't completely agree with the harsh criticism Trine 3 received," the developer stated. "Had it been a new IP or from someone else it would have been viewed very differently. We are still proud of what we achieved it, even it fell short. With Shadwen I'm hoping we can start with a clean slate, but time will tell if we are ever forgiven."
Let's see what happens.
