We’ll have some new area screenshots out later this week (maybe today), but in the meantime, here are some new battle screenshots from Cthulhu Saves the World.
Leave Home – a truly fantastic sidescrolling shooter where the level changes depending on how well you’re doing – just had a price drop to 80 MS points recently. It was well worth the higher price point before so now you have no excuse.
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning, the first RPG from indie game developer, Zeboyd Games, has achieved a LTD conversion rate of over 66.6% with sales of over 20,000 copies in the first 70 days since release. Conversion rate is defined as the number of sales divided by the number of demo downloads. Breath of Death VII has also achieved the second highest user rating of any XBox Live Indie Game on the US marketplace with an average rating of 4.75 out of 5.
“We are thrilled with these results,” says Breath of Death VII creator, Robert Boyd. “Most casual game developers consider their game a success if they manage to achieve a double digit conversion rate. To have achieved a rate of over 2/3rds is just phenemonal.”
“I attribute our high conversion rate to the high quality of the game, the positive press we’ve received on sites like Yahoo and Kotaku, and the tremendous value the game provides. In a world where even indie RPGs frequently have price tags of $20 and above, being able to buy a great RPG like Breath of Death VII for $1 is unheard of.”
Zeboyd Games’ next RPG, a dark comedy called Cthulhu Saves the World starring the insanity-inducing monstrosity from the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft will have a slightly higher price tag of $3 due to price/size limitations imposed on XBox Live Indie Games ($1 games are limited to 50MBs, whereas $3 & $5 games can take up to 150MBs). However, the developers at Zeboyd Games are hard at work to make Cthulhu Saves the World just as much of a value as Breath of Death VII.
“Cthulhu Saves the World is longer, the visuals look better, the gameplay is deeper and more balanced, there’s more music and the music we are using is of higher quality, and the story is more interesting than the already great Breath of Death VII. Not only that, but there will be greater incentives to replay the game with multiple difficulty levels and three unlockable bonus modes, one of which (Cthulhu’s Angels) will include new dialogue and a bonus playable character.”
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning was released on April 22, 2010 on the XBox Live Indie Games Marketplace. The demo and full version can be downloaded at http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802585504bd/ or directly on the XBox 360 Games Marketplace.
Cthulhu Saves the World is currently scheduled to be released on the XBox Live Indie Game Marketplace at the end of August 2010.
Breath of Death VII just passed 20,000 copies sold!
To celebrate, here’s a little gift – a copy of the Breath of Death VII world map. You can get it here.
Did you love Breath of Death VII? Why not show your support by voting for it in the best RPG category in the 2010 Golden Joystick Awards? You can cast your vote for Breath of Death VII and other games here.
Sales data reporting for XBLIG is working again and Breath of Death VII did better than that early spreadsheet report led us to believe.
4/22-5/2
5701 Sales
10727 Trials
53.15% Conversion Rate
1847 Sales in our first week (7th best selling XBLIG)
3481 Sales in our second week
373 Sales yesterday
We were hoping for 5k+ sales by the end of last week and we made it! Woohoo! If sales manage to stabilize at 1k or more average a week, we’re looking at a big financial success here.
Thank you everyone who has purchased the game and who has helped to spread the word. With your help, we’re looking forward to making many more high quality RPGs for the XBox Live Indie Games service.
Hi everyone. Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve submitted the new version of Breath of Death VII to Microsoft. This version doesn’t really add any new content, but it does fix all of the problems that people have brought to our attention since the game was released one week ago.
I’ll let you know when the new version is approved and up. Once it goes up, just try to play the game like normal and it should prompt you to download the new version. Also, your old saves will work with the new version so no worries there.
Right now, we’re the highest rated XBLIG in the US! This honestly boggles my mind. I don’t know how long it’ll last (we’re obviously very close to IMAGWZII since we dropped back to #2 briefly yesterday before going back to #1), but even if we only end up staying in the top spot for a short time, we’re extremely pleased.
Reviews have started coming in for Breath of Death VII and they’re very positive. Here and here both really liked it. This article was also very positive. Also, I was on the RPGamer Podcast last Saturday to talk about the game and various RPG stuff.
We were just informed of the first (and hopefully last) major bug in Breath of Death VII. In the first cave of Undeath Mountain (the cave you go to after getting your fourth party member), there’s a very small chance that getting into a battle will crash the game. The reason why no one discovered this beforehand is because that cave is very short and you generally only get into 2-4 battles in it before finishing the cave so none of our playtesters ran into it.
The bug has already been fixed in the code and we’ll submit the new version to the XBox Live Marketplace ASAP. Thank you for your patience while we take care of this problem.
We did it! Breath of Death VII: The Beginning is now on the XBox Live Indie Game Marketplace! Follow this link to download the demo or purchase the full version (or you can download it directly on your XBox 360 – Game Marketplace -> Indie Games -> Breath of Death VII).
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802585504bd
We’ll have the new trailer up later today.