{"id":926,"date":"2010-06-04T20:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T01:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2019-06-15T15:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T20:58:54","slug":"the-oil-blue-coming-june-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"The Oil Blue: Coming June 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray, a release date! The Oil Blue is coming out on June 22nd to Gamersgate and other distribution sites to be announced.
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\nIt was always my intention to release the game in May if not early June, however the private beta for the game has gone very well. I’ve added whole new segments to the game, taken out large portions of it, fixed a slew of bugs, and I’m finally getting to that checkered flag. The last beta version goes out over the weekend, review copies go out next week and the game will be finished (as of right now I need to add colorblind support, go through the code one more time for any bugs, and…that’s basically it.) So why not release it next week? Well, there’s one very big reason: E3 week is right after that, the biggest gaming trade show of the year.
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\nI feel that I have a really strong game (to the point that I’ve been looking for a custom sticker printing<\/a> company to make some stickers of my newest release for the show) and I don’t want to botch it like I did with Spirits of Metropolis, which was released during Christmas (what the heck was I thinking?). E3 week is going to flood news sites with game announcements, previews, and so on, and smaller games like mine will be a casualty to the slew of gaming news. So, to play it safe, I’ll be releasing it the week after. Hopefully we’ll get more coverage that way.
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\nSo what’s been going on in the private beta? Tons really. This beta has been a phenomenal success as far as finding bugs, shaping the gameplay and tweaking the feel just right to make it fun. I’ll dive into more details later in the month, but suffice to say the game is about 250% better than it was last month.
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\nWith the gap between the game’s release I’m going to be working on trailers, getting the game to more distribution sites, and working on some unannounced games. Woo!
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\nOh, and if you’re a review site that would like to be on the review copy list, be sure to contact me<\/a>.
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