Lets Players can expose a lot of people to new indie games in ways advertising campaigns can’t, and a lot of times indie developers can’t afford to pay for advertising campaigns like bigger game development companies. It’s obvious that Let’s Plays can help make the video game footage more entertaining, but they also have a deeper influence on the gaming community. One of the YouTube videos shown: MCPIXEL Ep.2 “Push ups?” w/ Cupquake It was great to see a theater filled with people get genuinely emotionally invested while watching these Let’s Plays. Whatever reaction the Lets Play elicited, it was obvious the audience was enjoying immensely. Awe and wonder struck the crowd when Nerd Cubed played Proteus. The crowd laughed when the people from Inside Gaming played Mount Your Friends. Attendees cringed when they witness the gore-y cartoon violence of Happy Wheels and clapped as Captain Sparklez played and completed a difficult level. The crowd fearfully reacted when Let’s Play creator Nilesy played the first person indie horror game titled Illusion-Ghost Killer. Each Let’s Play shown elicited something from the crowd. Film Festival, but most of the seats were filled with a good mix of people from all walks of life. It was shown in one of the smallest theaters involved in the L.A. The indie games shown were: McPixel, Mount Your Friends, 140, Happy Wheels, Illusion-Ghost Killer, Proteus, Slender the Arrival, The Stanley Parable, and Stick It To The Man. Each video featured one indie game, all from varying genres. Film Festival showcased nine Let’s Play videos from YouTube in a 79 minute compilation titled Let’s Play. People enjoy watching Lets Plays because it can be highly entertaining but it also benefits indie developers in a huge way.įor the first time ever, the L.A.
A recent news piece revealed that the most popular Let’s Play creator PewDiePie makes around 4 million dollars a year with over 27 million YouTube subscribers. A Let’s Play is when someone records themselves playing a game while commentating over it. It’s no doubt that Let’s Plays have become a huge thing on YouTube. "Will the Linux version be available from Steam?". "McPixel becomes first Steam Greenlight title".
"McPixel Embraced Piracy, Lived to Tell the Tale". ^ Patrick Klepek (September 13, 2012)."McPixel is the first game endorsed by The Pirate Bay following dev's support". ^ Jeffrey Matulef (September 8, 2012)."The World's Most Infamous Piracy Website Wants You to Buy This Video Game". "McPixel Dev Joins Pirate Bay To Give His Game Away For Free". "How one game developer is making The Pirate Bay work for him". ^ Jeffrey Matulef (November 22, 2012).^ a b "McPixel Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More"."Gaming App Of The Day: This Game Blows You Up Three Times In One Minute". "Save The World 20 Seconds At A Time, Mostly By Kicking Things In The Crotch". "McPixel (iOS) review – 20 seconds to save the world". As of June 2019, the Linux version is not on Steam, however Proton can be used to run the game. Kamiński announced the rewrite in June 2013, writing that he hoped to be done by September 2013, though there had been no news as of September 2014.
To fix this and other issues, Kamiński has stated that he intended to rewrite the game engine to not use Adobe Air. Kamiński has stated on the Steam Forums that this is because the Adobe Air run-time can not be distributed via Steam. ĭuring August 15–22, 2013, McPixel featured alongside four other games in the Humble Bundle Weekly Sale ("Hosted by PewDiePie"), which sold 189,927 units.Īs of October 2013, a Linux version exists, but is not yet available on Steam. The game was also the first game to be released via Steam Greenlight. Īs of September 2012, McPixel had sold 3,056 copies. Due to this event, McPixel became the first game ever to be endorsed by the Pirate Bay. He found out that McPixel was being torrented from a Reddit post. Mostly by Jesse Cox and PewDiePie." Sos promoted the distribution of his game on The Pirate Bay to market it. The game's creator and developer, Mikolaj "Sos" Kamiński, said: "The largest force driving attention to McPixel at that time were 'Let's Play' videos. But it's stranger, grosser, funnier and far more blasphemous." The Verge gave the game a score of 8 out of 10, stating " McPixel is the step further, a parody of a parody.
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McPixel received positive reviews, with a critic score of 76/100 on Metacritic for the PC version, and 83/100 critic score for the iOS version. The game is available on Android, iPhone and as a computer game.
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