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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