Little Ninja Update !

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Little Ninja Update !

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via http://dev.yuanworks.com/category/little-ninja/

Seems Yuan Works (of Wind & Water: Puzzle Battles fame) resumed work on Little Ninja back in February 2013:

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Hi everyone, welcome back to the Yuan Works DEV blog! ^^

We are slowly bringing Little Ninja back on his feet, as well as our GameDev blog, with information of what’s happening behind the scenes.


They kept updating their blog and uploaded a couple of WIP videos to Youtube. Here's the most recent one showing the progress of the game's engine:



More info: http://dev.yuanworks.com/2013/04/10/2d- ... platforms/
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The game development engine is looking great, that said they are not ready to announce it for any platform, they are just developing a game. Given how disappointing W&W was for Rsg it is possible a Dreamcast port will not materialize.
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Well, seems W&W has finally sold out, and both R4 and Sturmwind were a success...
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We have confirmed reports of Rsg given away W&W for free at conventions.

So sold out is not the best choice of words.
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They gave a total of something like 20-50 games away at one or two conventions, and only as part of some competition or lottery or whatever, but yeah, puzzlers don't sell.
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Goat Stores very foundation will disagree with that.

The games marketing on all levels was a fail. For starters it was priced over 50, wtf?
I could get the Goat 5 for cheaper, then you have to factor I. Shipping.

Even before it sold out it was over 20$ and add in shipping and you got 35$.
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Goat Store only produced a total of 2000 copies for each of their games and they're still not sold. Sturmwind likely will shift 10.000 units in its first year (The Limited Edition was more than 1000 units). Last Hope probably already sold that many copies by now. I'd love to know how many copies R4 sold...
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Where did you get the Goat sales figure?

First and foremost GSP has had an NDA, so with the exception of IRiDES limited edition, no print run information has been publicly shared to my knowledge.
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cube_b3 wrote:Where did you get the Goat sales figure?
They were tossed around here at the forums at release (or actually when the games got delayed).
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Well speaking of tossed around the forums, I remember Dan getting pissed off over Redspotgames claiming R4 has broken all indie records. He clearly said neither Last-Hope nor R4 can ever come close to selling as much as games being released while the system was a live. Lik-Sang alone sold thousands upon thousands of units.

That is GoatDan being paraphrased.
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