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If you guys are interested in more data, here's the sales stats for our game Dustforce: http://hitboxteam.com/dustforce-sales-figures

It's a non-mobile game, and has also been on the Humble Bundle. The article has a lot of details like dollar amounts and sales over time.

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Also, your game didn't spam people constantly to tweet their progress or have the high amount of pretentiousness. Though, I'm sad you never implemented the level boss battles into the game.

#sworcery was pretentious? It seemed to me to be a game that took itself very un-seriously in some ways. I can't remember them, but I do recall laughing hard at some of the things that happened even in the first few hours of play.

I think jmomo is referring to the way the cigar-smoking businessman introduces the game as a "psychosocial audiovisual experiment" or something with pretentious wording like that. I personally wasn't bothered by that because I didn't get the idea that the developers were making the claim seriously.

> tweet their progress or have the high amount of pretentiousness

That kept the game interesting. The tweets were funny. No need to be mean about it.

I don't care how funny the tweets were. I don't want to tweet about it and I definitely don't want to be spammed about it.

Yeah, we just didn't have enough time to add in the boss battles :(

I stumbled across the Dustforce soundtrack randomly about a month ago and it's been the most played thing on my Spotify since!

I've had a long running dream to produce a game and your soundtrack inspires me to think about it more...

Thanks! Glad you like my music.

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