I don't remember exactly what I said last time about The Good Apprentice, but from where we stand, that game is done!
We received the last bit of art last Saturday, we updated a couple of things, and, most importantly, we've addressed many of the comments that our test players have pointed out.
Unfortunately, now, we're running into a new problem. We actually spoke about this problem in an earlier article (Reading Your Markets Will Be Difficult) so be sure to read that article as well to really get into our minds.
Basically, we don't know what to price The Good Apprentice at.
While the game is 100 % better than the The Cherokee Indian, it still isn't perfect. Trying to be as objective as possible, we feel like the game is 50 - 50 good and bad. There are plenty of things we did right and plenty of things that we would do over if we had the time / money.
Then again, we could release the game FREE. We'd probably charge people for ads and ask for donations or something like that if we did. Thing is we feel like the game is worth more than ZERO. But, this brings up the entirely different point that, apparently, the price of ALL digital goods will be zero. I'm too lazy to be looking up any links, but there are plenty of experts and what not pointing out how people expect digital goods to be free now adays.
It's funny. It's taken us a long time to get here, we're excited to be here, but we're still not exactly sure what we're going to do...
