The user immediately begins playing without an initial title screen and direction, leaving the user confused but in an immediate sense of wonder. You can tell right away that the small team of developers truly cared about the atmosphere of this game to immerse the player, especially after a massive redesign that the game underwent.
The aesthetics are desolating and beautiful. A 28% increase in pay is a good chunk of change for developers to miss out on, given the same platform benefits! Who could refuse that offer? This appears to be the strategy Epic Games plans on sticking with for a while, and I know why, it’s because it’s working.ĭarq immediately immerses you in the bleak monochromatic dreamworld, starting in the Lloyd’s (the protagonist) home. Now, that’s a pretty good deal if I don’t say so myself. It’s not unheard of that some corporations go to war with each other in this dog-eat-dog gaming world, but Epic Games has been offering developers better terms for their games, offering developers 88% in revenue, instead of the 60% like Steam, according to Gameinformer and Polygon.
The controversial issue behind Epic Games is that it has been offering exclusive deals to developers to not put their content in the Steam Store and only their own, providing better margins for the developers to make more money. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Epic Games, it released high-grossing games, such as Fortnite, which drove revenue over $2.5B in 2018 with over 250M active players, growing Epic Games closer in size to Steam’s creator, Valve. In the first week of August, Epic Games Inc offered Wlad Marhulets, the sole developer behind Unfold Games, for Darq to be exclusively distributed in the Epic store and not on Steam, according to PCGamer. Some developers have received abuse follower the decision to be limited to the Fortnite maker's store, as was highlighted by Ooblets maker Glumberland, which received hate mail following its exclusive deal.Before I get into the details of Darq gameplay, I wanted to provide some interesting insight into the game’s distribution drama. In a statement on Medium, Marhulets explained it would discredit his studio to accept an exclusivity deal, as the game was on Steam wishlists since 2018. However, Unfold Games turned down the opportunity to make Darq an Epic Games Store exclusive. Many games have been signed exclusively to Epic's storefront including Oddworld: Soulstorm, Deep Silver and 4A's Metro Exodus and Obsidian's The Outer Worlds.īorderlands 3 is also exclusive for the first six months of release, though as of April 2020 the title will be available on additional storefronts. If you accept, the charity can be picked by the gaming’s community at a later date. If you change your mind and accept DARQ to your store non-exclusively, I’ll donate 100% of my EGS revenue to a charity. The promise was made via Twitter (below), as the indie developer responded to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s comment about the success Darq is seeing. Unfold Games has offered to donate all its revenue from the Epic Games Store to charity if it's released on the marketplace - as long as it gets a non-exclusivity deal for Darq.
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