Hey Everyone!
I’m happy to announce that I’m making some Caster t-shirts! (as seen above, white ink on a black shirt see also http://elecorn.com/blog/2010/02/t-shirt-design/).
If you are interested in getting one of these fine limited edition shirts, send an e-mail with your preferred t-shirt size and style and a shipping address to:
*Put “Caster” somewhere in the subject line so that it will pass through any filters and I’ll be sure to get it.
No need to pay now! Once you get your shirt, you can pay for it by clicking on the “Donate” button found here:
The shirts will cost me about $20 to $25 USD each plus shipping and handling but feel free to pay what you like. I’d rather people have t-shirts that want them than not getting one because of price.
In addition, each t-shirt will ship with a unique hand drawn sketch from your’s truely (requests are encouraged)!
I’ll only be taking orders for a week, so be sure to send them in soon.
One more thing!
For this next week I’ve set up a pay-what-you-want* option for Caster similar to what has been done for several other independent video games. If you think Caster is too over or under priced, this gives you the option to pay what you think the game is worth! Spread the word! All the fun fast paced action of Caster at a price that anyone can afford! Just follow the instructions found at the bottom of the page here:
Thanks all! And thanks for supporting Caster!
*Pay-what-you-want only applies to the PC, Mac, and Linux versions of Caster.
May 25th, 2010 on 11:58 am
Hello Elecorn
I have a few questions about your latest news “The T-shirt designs”. I am greatly anticipating the release of the Caster T-shirts, but when I was reading the email I wondered if there would be any restrictions to the shipping address and what possible styles can you have the shirt in. Aside from the T-shirt is it possible to request any character that appeared in the Caster game for the unique hand drawn sketch. Apart from that I have no further enquiries and I hope that Caster… may appear on a video game console, in the future.
P.S will there be any future designs with a boy caster?
From a Fellow Caster Gamer
May 25th, 2010 on 3:24 pm
Richie, The first version of Caster came with a male character called “Ethan” he is still a playable character in all the recent releases.
May 25th, 2010 on 3:32 pm
Cool news about jumping on the pay-what-you-want bandwagon. I might just have to throw some money in to get a Linux port (I own Caster on Steam).
Have you sent news about this to the various video games websites? The ones I read (Rock Paper Shotgun, Shacknews, Bluesnews, TIGSource, Indiegames Blog) all seem to have posted about most of the pay-what-you-want indie sales in the past, so I imagine they’d be interested. You do seem to be making it hard for them to link to you, though. There’s this blog post about it, but mostly about your T-Shirts (and if the T-Shirt offer made it to the front page of various games sites, you’d, ahem, lose your shirt on printing and shipping), and then there’s a box down at the bottom of the game’s site which is pretty easy to miss sitting amongst the regular $4.99 links. Anyone linking to it has to explain exactly how to take advantage of the sale rather than just tossing out a link, which can’t be good for getting the word out. It might be worth setting up a page just for the sale, with a big obvious donate button.
May 25th, 2010 on 9:29 pm
Fantastic feedback all. I’ll make some changes and contact some more people.
I’ll ship anywhere I can. I should be able to handle about any style of shirt as well.
Yes, please request a drawing of what you would like! If you don’t, you’ll just get whatever I happen to feel like drawing at the moment.
Thanks All!
May 26th, 2010 on 1:39 pm
Hi,
Are there any plans to track the amount and number of donations per platform, similar to how the Humble Bundle handled things?
At least on the Mac/Linux side of things this seems to create a bit more incentive 🙂
May 26th, 2010 on 3:35 pm
Sounds like a good idea. It’s too much work for me now to keep track of the stats each day, but I’ll look into reporting some stats when the week is over. Thanks!
May 26th, 2010 on 5:44 pm
I just picked up Caster a week ago off of Steam. I wish I’d picked it up before the price cut, but this gives me an easy way to make up for that. I tossed a bit more your way to say thanks for the great game.
May 26th, 2010 on 6:26 pm
…And after having read your, at best, extraordinarily misguided justification for supporting Prop 8, I rather regret doing so.
May 28th, 2010 on 6:32 pm
I wish I knew I could get it off steam beforehand, I would’ve just gotten it there, if only it came with a steam license key code to activate it.