Chime: Portal Edition Priced, Pre-Orders Open
The PC edition of Zoe Mode's splendid musical puzzler Chime will cost a mere $4.99, Steam has revealed by opening pre-purchasing--the s
A bit like Lumines blended with Tetris, Chime involves building up a music track by combining different-shaped blocks to cover the play area. Tracks from artists including Moby and Orbital's Paul Hartnoll are on offer, with the PC's 'Portal Edition' also packing Jonathan Coulton's iconic song 'Still Alive' from the Portal soundtrack--as seen below.
Chime: Portal Edition will be released on September 6 for download via Steam. A portion of Zoe Mode's royalties--working out to around 25¢--will go towards charity.
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deathofrats
replyIt's weird, reading the history on the game and how all the music was donated and it was for a charity you'd think more than just 25 cents would be going to the said charity. That's just 1/20th of the profits, considering it's a download game, with probably low overhead and low development costs.
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Better some than none?
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Yes but for a publisher that claims to be non-profit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneBigGame) shouldn't more of the profit be going out to the charities? Maybe i am mistaken, I don't know how these things are run...
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*shrugs* that's sort of what I am wondering.
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My wife works for a non-profit, and there are plenty of big salaries for "staff". I think it just means the company itself doesn't keep any money for reinvestment.
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It's sad that people are being mislead too: "IGN praised the game and rated it 8/10, saying, "Chime is easy to recommend. It's cheap, it'll keep you amused for hours, and the $5 you spend goes to charity."
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The publisher donates a much bigger percentage of its take to charity, since it's the publisher that is the explicitly non-profit entity, not the developer. Zoe Mode, the developer, is presumably just donating this as an additional bonus.
THAT SAID, I don't know if OneBigGame, the publisher, is still actively involved in this game. I think the way they work is they get a certain period of publishing exclusivity, during which time they do their charity thing, and then rights revert to the developer. Zoe Mode may not even need a publisher for this platform release, if they're just going through Steam.
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