But we were confident our ideas would resonant with enough gamers to make the endeavour worthwhile creatively and financially.Д«ut gamers can be harsh. To say the market is saturated is an understatement. We also knew that making a zombie game was a risk. Heck, we wanted it to be niche, in so far that we made a game that we wanted to play, a game that would do things largely ignored by the zombie game genre. When we started on Zafehouse: Diaries, we knew it wasnвЂ™t going to be a game for everyone. ItвЂ™s slowly progressing by about one-three per cent a day now. 44 per cent sounds pretty good, but about 20 per cent of that came in the first two days. WeвЂ™re hopeful the votes donвЂ™t dry up completely, but we wonвЂ™t have a better idea for another few days, when we can establish some sort of trend.

To the right you can see how Zafehouse: Diaries is doing so far.ДЄs youвЂ™d expect, we had a burst of activity the first day we were published, with numbers slowly dissipating as time wore on. If youвЂ™re not in the top 100, you get a bar telling you how far you are away from breaking into this exclusive group, while those who have breached the list are given a ranking. People might not be able to by the game from the digital distribution service, but we are there, a part of the Valve-created entity. What is surprising is the response itвЂ™s received.ДЄnd weвЂ™re on SteamвЂ¦ in a fashion. To be fair, we havenвЂ™t spent a dollar on any sort of advertising or marketing, so itвЂ™s not surprising. Yeah, publicity! Greenlight has far and away been our biggest source of interest in the game. The process, all up, took about seven weeks. I suppose we donвЂ™t really compare to the likes of first-person shooters when it comes to вЂњhigh-impactвЂќ content as it were, but still, we thought an M or MA 15+ was a certainty.

Diaries was handed a surprising PG rating, despite the gameвЂ™s content. ItвЂ™s the first chance anyone outside of the studio (of two people) and a few testers have had to actually see what weвЂ™ve spent the last 10 or so months making. Yes, we paid the $US100 and deposited our inside bits onto Steam Greenlight.

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