https://www.polygon.com/steam-games-piece-by-piece-bundle/
“With hundreds of games releasing each week, discoverability is a well-known
issue for game developers and publishers on Steam, even as the storefront has
made moves to address the issue, like a personalized release calendar for
users. Still, the final boss of game development for indies and their AAA
counterparts is getting players' eyes on their games.
What likely doesn't help that issue? Releasing your game the same week as
another game with the exact same name. That's what happened to the developers
of
Piece by Piece and
Piece by Piece, but they've made the most of it.
Gamkat's
Piece by Piece is a cozy management sim. You'll play as an adorable
orange fox who runs a repair shop. Neon Polygons'
Piece by Piece, which came
out two days later, is a puzzle platformer whose levels are divided into puzzle
pieces. You'll connect, move, and rotate them to progress.
A Reddit post gained traction last week when a user searched for one of the
games, presumably this one that's a literal puzzle platformer. "I feel this is
going to mislead a lot of people," the post was titled, with its description
reading, "marketing should prevent this sort of thing."
An employee of No More Robots, publisher of the cozy shopkeeping
Piece by
Piece, noticed and commented on the post. "The actual situation is that both
ourselves and the dev team behind the other
Piece by Piece somehow managed to
announce the same week of release for both our games, had a good laugh about it
together, and then put both games into a Steam bundle together," they said.
"Not exactly sure how anyone is being 'mislead', but on our side, we’re all
happy and having fun with it :)"”
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
