My, what low prices you have: The Path will run you $9.99

Yeah, for me too the choice often comes down to video games or BlackBerry App World apps... I guess that really is the great debate for all of us, isn't it?

@AoE The joke was that BB AW apps are overpriced at the cheapest non-free level.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/blackberry-app-world-minimum-paid-price-2-99/

no, the joke was how you brought an irrelevant topic into fruition, here, now. go home.

@JerJer Thanks for your feedback. I saw it as expanding the conversation. How much can you say about The Path? Including this comment and as of this writing, this thread represents 22% of the overall comments to this post.

I'm hoping for the same...

You could always use Boot Camp.

That shouldn't be too difficult.

That's just Manny being Manny. Er wait, nevermind. The only it'd really driven me nuts was after the big Piston/Pacer fight broke out, seems like ESPN was on that for ages.

Happy ending? The original tale didn't have a happy ending. I suppose in "The Path" we can choose between the 'twisted' version where the girl survives, or the violent ending of the original telling.

oh later this month. would help if I could comprehend, i still have 8 hours of work left tonight

heh yeah. that's about it ^_^ you can youtube the whole game :P but there's something darkly alluring about being the old lady, knowing death is so close....reminiscent....

The thing is, it doesn't matter how "indie" it is. It matters if it's any good, and the problem is that it's not. Like "Facade", it's just a bunch of self-important goofs making non-games and pretending that it's high art.

Using indie status to try to override lack of content is pretty common - people do it all the time with indie music as well (for example, note that any mind-dribble that Madlib releases generally gets rave reviews). But these things need to be judged honestly. And honestly, all I see in this pompous company's future is bankruptcy and burger-flipping.

I wasn't saying being indie was an excuse for lack of content within the game, but more the lack of content they've been able to show (trailers, etc.). But even then being an indie team with 6-8 people at most is not easy. Have you ever tried to make a game with a small team of people, a complete game? I have and its not easy. It took tale of tales 2 years to complete The Path and its a 6 hour game, and from what I understand they had no Publisher's help, just a Gov't grant. One thing I've learned from my experience, both with an indie team and with a game dev/publishing company, is depending on the resources available to you, money, tools, people, etc. lots of your grand plans dwindle away very fast. You have to live with what you have do the best you can. Indie developers sometimes have the benefit of more time, more creative expression, but the money is not there like it is for big companies. Meaning they can't afford all the people, tools, and other assets that go into bigger budget games. So I'd say, depending on the scale and just how "indie" you are does factor in to the content you produce.

I can see where many people come from thinking they're just some pompous artist types trying to change the whole medium to fit their own ideals. There have been times I got that same impression. But if you had the means wouldn't you try to make your own version of an ideal game too? I can't really blame them for trying, or really criticize their game when I haven't played it. But I'm willing to give it a try for $10... They themselves said, as well as several other game site reveiws/walkthroughs, that it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea. There are several different genres of video games, I see no harm in adding another, even it is a very small niche compared to most.

I thought Facade was a research project, not a game.

Wow, it was made with a government grant? Yet another reason to despise these people. My taxes pay for this nonsense?

If you live in Belgium then yeah... If you don't - no need to fret. They wont be getting any of your money unless you want them too...