Cthulhu Saves the World – A Call to Arms

Cthulhu Saves the World will not come out tomorrow.

However, I think Cthulhu Saves the World will be done tomorrow. At that point, I’ll put it up in playtesting for people to do a final going over to hopefully catch anything we missed before putting it into peer review shortly thereafter. I don’t predict any major issues – CSTW is built on the BoDVII engine which is solid, plus we’ve stuck the game into playtesting a few times before so I believe all of the major issues have been caught by now – but we want to do a final check before putting it into peer review.

If you are an XBLIG developer with a creator’s club membership, we would greatly appreciate it if you could take some time out of your schedule to play through the game when it goes into playtesting late tomorrow or early Friday. I understand that it’s the holiday season so many people have plans, but it would mean the world to us if we could get this game out before the end of the year. If we could get at least a couple people besides ourselves to play through the whole thing by the end of the week, then we could submit the game on the 25th and hopefully get at least half a week of sales before the pay period ends. Plus fans of RPGs who have the rest of the year off would get plenty of time to play it before having to go back to work/school.

Also, when the game does go out, we would appreciate any and all help in spreading the word. Tell your friends, posts on message boards, email websites, the works. As I mentioned in an earlier post, how much time we have free to work on game development in the first quarter of 2011 hinges on how many copies of Cthulhu Saves the World we manage to sell this month and since we don’t have much time left, those first few days will be crucial.