RE: [GD-Design] Indie games?

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

> >Ummm, do you want a digest of the "graphics" sections of 
> Celtic Kings 
> >reviews (by the way, published by the aforementioned StrategyFirst)?
> 
> Out of curiousity, did your company independently develop this title 
> and then shop it around?  
> 
> It sounds like you're not happy with the reviews, but when I read 
> them they seem fairly positive.  In fact, I'd say "congratulations!" 
> to your whole team given that it has sold well in Europe (your Spain 
> blurb caught my eye).
> 
> www.gamerankings.com shows that you got 4.5/5 from GamesDomain, 
> 87/100 from Gamespy, 8.4/10 from GameSpot, etc.  Not too shabby I 
> say.

Thanks!

We shopped it to publishers on several rounds, but found a sensible
deal when it was almost done.

The reviews are mostly positive, yes, with avg of 80% according to
GameRankings,
but the sales outside Spain are nothing to write home about.
So I know first-hand the correlation between sales and review scores is
very weak.

But in almost all reviews there was a mention of how dated the graphics
technology was. If the reviewer had an overall favorable impression
of the game, it was along the lines of "dated but OK", otherwise it was
"too dated to compete".