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Well, I'm a commenting kind of guy, so I thought I'd provide context for this bit of drama, something to explain why Cathala would destroy a copy of his own game. The reason becomes clear once you read this post (now not viewable without an account) by Monsieur Phal, editor of the French game site Tric Trac. In brief, the post explains that on Jan. 23, 2013, Tric Trac was visited by a bailiff and three national police officers with a demand for the IP addresses of six forum users who had participated in an act of denigration or public insult against the publisher.
Tric Trac was also notified that the sustainability of the publisher was being threatened due to a post by Monsieur Phal in which he noted that the publisher – which funds games along a Kickstarter model, but only for titles to be published under its banner – had raised €200,000 and he was curious about the publisher's future operations, given how different its business model is from other publishers. For now, Tric Trac has deleted the post as Phal notes that he didn't want to have to monitor all posts from users and worry about future visits from the bailiff. (For the same reason, he asks readers not to pile on to the publisher, but rather to let the facts lie where they will and get on with other things.) All of which lead to Cathala's apparent desire to disassociate himself from the publisher.
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...[T]he experience was frustrating, and maybe even humiliating.
It was frustrating because, until the very end, I was not sure we will make it – or rather you will make it – and because I'm a bit disappointed that André, Sergio and I had found only 400 gamers to trust our word on a game. It was humiliating because I posted several times on my blog and on Facebook about money, about the financial aspects of producing a game, blatantly asking for support. Of course, I’ve always used my website to promote my games, to suggest that people buy them, but it was less direct, more subtle. The directness of crowdfunding sometimes feels almost obscene.
It was frustrating because, until the very end, I was not sure we will make it – or rather you will make it – and because I'm a bit disappointed that André, Sergio and I had found only 400 gamers to trust our word on a game. It was humiliating because I posted several times on my blog and on Facebook about money, about the financial aspects of producing a game, blatantly asking for support. Of course, I’ve always used my website to promote my games, to suggest that people buy them, but it was less direct, more subtle. The directness of crowdfunding sometimes feels almost obscene.
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• In a February 2013 Postcard from Berlin, writer/designer Jeffrey D. Allers writes about the challenge of playing with the visually impaired. Interesting to think about how theme is conferred only visually in nearly all games, leaving visually impaired gamers in a largely abstract-only gamespace.
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