Dear Esther selected for IndieCade2009 news

Dear Esther,
I will be flying, not entirely gull-like, to the west coast in October to the IndieCade2009 awards where we have been selected as a finalist. This news comes like an unexpected ray of light breaking through the hebridean clouds onto the bleak, dew-soaked paths and causeways of our dead shepherds and vanishing hermits. Scrawlings on the cliff, white lines and other strange diagrams about IndieCade can be found here: www.indiecade.com

So, obviously, we're really rather pleased about this. The fact that a low-key, low-budget, experimental mod has made the final list, up alongside some fairly major projects (like The Path and Zeno Clash) is great for us - and another indication that we really did something right and interesting here. It also confirms part of what thechineseroom is all about - that there's no reason why a research project that's about experimenting with what you can do with first-person gaming shouldn't or can't be a really interesting 'game' in its own right.

So thanks to everyone in the community who has supported the mod over the last year or so - we're now looking at over 30,000 downloads in total from here and other sites, which is just downright amazing...