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Avernum 6 stealing11/1/2022 ![]() ![]() It's knowing which tools to not steal, which ones to steal, and how to assemble them together to makes a real craftsman.Ĭomputer Gaming World called Exile 3 the best shareware game of the year. Here's the thing about stealing ideas: Everyone does it. I played every game that was popular at the time, stole the very best idea from each, and synthesized them all into one coherent title. So I did what I usually do when I want to design something good. I decided that I was really going to stretch my wings. (You didn't have to be an Amazon employee with a mega-salary to live in Seattle then.)Īt that point, I'd been writing shareware for two years, was starting to feel a tiny bit confident and comfortable. It was a modest living, but entirely adequate for a 26 year old in Seattle. ![]() ![]() When I started Exile 3, I'd already put out Exile and Exile 2, and they'd sold well enough for me to go full-time. This is a brief story of writing a game that did really well and figuring out how to deal with it.Įxile 3: Ruined World. If my email is to be believed, a lot of people want it. Then, this week, twenty years after its first release, we shipped Avernum 3: Ruined World, the second remaster of this title. In 2002, I remastered the game into Avernum 3. It didn't make enough to buy a mega-mansion. It made enough to buy a modest 1997-priced house. It and its remasters are the most popular games I've ever written.īear in mind this game was a hit by 1997 shareware standards, not 2018 indie standards. ![]()
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