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Esoteric Ebb - No Demo rules forever

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Aug 18, 2024.

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    [​IMG]News that the current demo of Esoteric Ebb will be taken down:

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    Taking Down The Second Draft Demo! (And Some Fun Reflections)

    "No demo rules forever."

    It's time

    On the 6th of December, 2023, I released what I called the Second Draft Demo, of Esoteric Ebb. It was more or less a polished and updated version of the First Draft Playtest, (hence the name) which featured:
    • 11 characters
    • 15 very cool inanimate objects
    • Thousands of apples
    • 3 quests branches
    • Over 50k words written
    • ~1 hour of gameplay on average
    I'm still shocked at how playable it was.

    And best of all, it turned out to be actually kind of fun. In the first couple of weeks, a couple of hundred people were trying it out. Mostly those of you that tried the First Draft Playtest (the OGs!) and came back for more. It was great to spend that time releasing bug fixes and optimizing the build, but while the reactions were positive, it didn't end up receiving too much attention. That is, until February 2024.

    Ted Litchfield tried the demo. He kind of liked it and wrote an article for PC Gamer about it. I remember waking up that morning with a bunch of notifications and messages about people seeing it in their feeds, and whatnot. That got me in a real good mood- and considering the previous mentions Ebb had gotten in PCGamer, I figured this would give a big boost to the game's visibility. At the time, Ebb had around 8000 wishlists, so I expected to gain maybe one or two thousand from the article.

    It got 30,000 wishlists. In two weeks.

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    RPGWatch, Aug 18, 2024
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