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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP sells 1.5 million
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP has over 1.5 million cosmic friends, developer Capybara Games announced on their site today. A stylized graph included in the post details the breakdown of Sword & Sworcery's sales. 33% of lifetime sales (550,000 copies) were sold through iOS, the game's launch platform. 54% were through the combined results of the cross-platform Humble Bundle 5 and Humble Bundle Android 4 and 5. The remaining 13% was split between sales via Steam, Google Play, the Mac App Store, or direct purchases from Capybara. Sword & Sworcery launched on the iPad in March 2011. It has since reached PC, Mac and Linux and received a specialized Japanese release. Capybara's announcement describes the hours after the game's initial iPad release as "exciting, stressful, celebratory and even terrifying."
Humble Android Bundle 5 adds Sword and Sworcery, Splice, Crayon Physics Deluxe
Humble Android Bundle 5 has reason to brag with the addition of three new games to its lineup of unlockables: Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP, Splice and Crayon Physics Deluxe. This trio joins Super Hexagon and Dungeon Defenders as games available by paying more than the average, which generally stays below $7. All unlocked games come with their original soundtracks.Games available for any price at all are Beat Hazard Ultra, Dynamite Jack, Solar 2 and NightSky HD, along with all of their soundtracks (excluding Dynamite Jack). All games come for PC, Mac, Linux and Android devices, with system requirements here. There are six days left to get some games on the cheap and donate to charity at the same time, right at Humble Bundle.
Fez, Johann Sebastian Joust win at the IndieCade 2011 awards
The 2011 IndieCade Awards were held in Santa Monica last evening and, in a pretty informal event, Phil Fish's Fez came away with the biggest wins of the night. It received two awards, one for Story/World Design, and the second for the Best in Show prize. Johann Sebastian Joust, a physical game that challenges players to hold PlayStation Move controllers still while getting audio feedback in musical form, also picked up two awards: one for Best Technology, and another award for Impact on the community. Tom Sennett's manic Deepak Fights Robots won the award for best Gameplay Design, Superbrothers' Sword and Sworcery EP picked up the award for Visuals, and Proteus, in which players are offered up a musical environment to explore, won for best Sound. Interaction went to German physical game Ordnungswissenschaft, and the Special Recognition award went to side-scrolling puzzler platformer The Swapper. The ceremony itself was short but wacky. Presenters like Samm Levine and Martin Starr (of TV's "Freaks and Geeks"), as well as web video stars Team Unicorn and Sandeep Parikh, cracked sometimes awkward jokes, while the indie developers themselves acted (unsurprisingly) indie. Joust's team used one of their awards speeches to silently demo the game, and Tom Sennett took the stage to simply announce, "I'm Tom Sennett, and I don't give a fuck!" Fish himself (above) laughed maniacally after winning his second award, and then joked that he thought the Canadian Sword and Sworcery team was going to win. "Take that, Toronto!" he joked. We'll be at IndieCade over the rest of the weekend, so stay tuned for more coverage.
Sword & Sworcery EP and LP on swale today
To celebrate the equinox, the magical Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP and LP are on sale today. The regularly priced $4.99 iPad edition and $2.99 iPhone version of the EP video game are down to $1.99 and $0.99, respectively. The soundtrack, which is usually $7.99, is discounted to "pay what you can." What happens if you miss this sale today? We're going to bet the next major discount will occur during the solstice in three months. Call it a hunch.
Sword and Sworcery devs talk with Adventure Time creator, for fun's sake
Two of the bombastic dudes behind the iOS gem Sword and Sworcery EP recently sat down with the creator of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward, in an hour-long discussion with Juegos Rancheros, the independent video game collective in Austin, Texas. Kris Piotrowski of development studio Capy and Craig Adams of Superbrothers had a talk with Ward about the fine lines between cartooning and gaming, pitches for a possible Adventure Time video game and the superb soundtrack to Sword and Sworcery, composed by Jim Guthrie. Take an adventure into the entire video above, moderated by Canabalt creator Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman.
Sword & Sworcery LP available in analog and digital forms April 5
The Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP record by Jim Guthrie, Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies, will be available at midnight on Tuesday, April 5. As foretold by Capy (Critter Crunch n' Munch) prez Nathan Vella, the availability of the game's soundtrack comes two weeks after the title's iPad launch, which means the iPhone version should release two weeks after the record hits. The 12" 180g vinyl record, with limited edition print, will cost $30 and includes a downloadable version as well. The soundtrack will also be available with bonus songs through digital distribution outlets like Bandcamp for $7.99 and iTunes for $8.99. Also, just in case you don't know what a "vinyl record" is, we have this handy link to explain the artifact.
Sword and Sworcery launch plans detailed
Capy's iOS title Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP has maintained its approximate iPad release date of "vernal equinox" (March 21) and now we have further audio and iPhone launch details. Capy's Nathan Vella told us at PAX East that two weeks after the iPad launch that the company will release a vinyl LP of the game's music (at Bandcamp). Don't worry if the words "vinyl LP" don't mean a thing to you, the music will also be available at iTunes. The iPhone version will launch "a month" after the iPad version (or two weeks after the LP, depending on how you want to tell time). The only difference between the iPad and iPhone versions will be the resolution and a couple dollars in price.
Prepare to find out you're already prepared for Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP
Even if you haven't seen Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, the collaboration between Capy, musician Jim Guthrie, and artist Craig "Superbrothers" Adams, it's likely you've acquired the method to receive it. The trailer after the break purports that, no matter why you thought you were purchasing that iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad -- "internet?" -- you were actually implicitly preparing to welcome the indie action-adventure game into your life. After actually seeing it, you might even decide to buy it! Consciously -- volitionally! The trailer hints at a release around the vernal equinox, which is March 20 for those of you not as attuned to nature as we are.
