It turns out Friday night is actually a pretty good time to announce an indie game. It gives a small PR team enough time to put the message out, see the initial response, make course corrections, and still have the opportunity to get all the press releases sent off by Monday morning.
One of the first people we wanted to notify was the journalist Dan Griliopoulos, who you may have noticed putting party political manifestos through Democracy 3 in the run-up to the UK elections.
When he covered the Green Party, he was thoughtful enough to give us a paragraph mention, which was the first press coverage Fate had received in over two years. The team got to read it as we were slogging through the thousand tiny frustrations of the design process; it gave us just the fillip we needed to press on.
On Friday, Dan retweeted our announcement immediately, along with paying us a compliment that we found frankly humbling (though we did stick it on the front page of the website too).
Monday saw us get our first press reaction, as Rock, Paper, Shotgun gave their response to the news.
RPS have always had the nicest things to say about Fate, with their quotes illuminating not just our home page, but the TV Tropes entry too, so we were thrilled to see them pick up the news.
Meanwhile, Klaude is itinerant somewhere in Central Europe, while Sian and I continue to push the boat forward. Oh yeah, we got an e-mail from some guy called Delnar, too…