{"id":13911,"date":"2016-03-19T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13911"},"modified":"2016-03-19T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T15:08:14","slug":"firewatch-one-month-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/firewatch-one-month-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Firewatch: One Month Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/firewatch-one-month-later\/\">Cabel Sasser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/panic.com\/blog\/firewatch-one-month-later\/\">\n<p>Firewatch&rsquo;s budget, while huge for us, was modest for a game of its quality and scope, but we made our investment back in about one day. Firewatch has sold around 500,000 full-price copies in its first month. (It was even the top PlayStation Store digital download in February!) As an indie game, or heck, even as a &ldquo;real&rdquo; game, ok fine but not as a Call of Duty or Star Wars game, Firewatch can be considered a sales success.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know if you heard, but Panic did an insane thing for Firewatch &mdash; at one point you find a disposable camera in the game, and at the end of the game, you can choose to upload the photos you took to our server. [&#8230;] And then, if you want, you can actually order physical prints of the photos for $15, shipping included.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at that price, this was never designed to be a massive profit center. We saw it as a very special opportunity to try something we&rsquo;re not sure has ever been done before: give users a customized, personalized keepsake from a virtual journey, on demand, when they beat the game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabel Sasser: Firewatch&rsquo;s budget, while huge for us, was modest for a game of its quality and scope, but we made our investment back in about one day. Firewatch has sold around 500,000 full-price copies in its first month. (It was even the top PlayStation Store digital download in February!) As an indie game, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,1355,418,30,32,420,1224,807],"class_list":["post-13911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-firewatch","tag-game","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-panic","tag-sony-playstation","tag-windows-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13912,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions\/13912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}