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Sidaro was one of the levels that was meant to be part of the official ECE add on around 2004 or 2005, that I built. It never got released unfortunatnely, until now :)
Thanks a lot to Lasercar for getting in touch, and happy to see this level finally going public! Enjoy.

Not yet, but we will probably put the soundtrack online at some point.

We are still working on getting the game out in stores in the USA. Hopefully soon but I have no ETA at this moment. The European release is planned for in about a week.

The game is uncensored in Germany! There is a problem on Valve's side, and we are all working on it right now. This was not the intention and this will be resolved shortly!

Thanks for nothing to all those people who sent hate mails! We got absolutely nothing to do with this problem! It is entirely out of our hands! Please try to be more considerate if you do not know what is going on!

Yes.

Not censored. Even while the game is rated 16+ by USK (PEGI 18+, ESRB 17+) it is the exact same version as the rest of the world has.

About 40% is new or modified. The full game is what we've always had in mind for the game, so if you liked the mod, then play the game in its full glory, as it was intended.
And if not for that, then get it to support us! We still have no office, we are just working from our bedrooms, literally, and we've come a very long way. We've had some luck here and there, but it above all it took us a huge amount of time and effort to get the game to this point.

ModDB, Epic Games, ~19 previewers, and the 4 publishers who signed up for the game seem to think otherwise.

Perhaps it is just not your type of game. Can happen. It is impossible to make a game that every person on this planet likes.

Taken offline because it is now almost a year old and no longer accurately represents the game.

Yes

To be announced at a later date, but it will a very reasonable price in line with what other titles in our segment cost (Trine, Killing Floor, etc.)

Tripwire is not taking over production or funding production, we still do that. They publish and distribute it.

PC only for the time being, and it will be released both online as in the retail stores.

Not yet, but there will be something else :)

We will make the footsteps a bit more subtle then :)

Yeah we heard that a lot. We are still messing around with how we are going to fully implement this. Right now it goes transparent while pressing and holding a button, but some people want it to go transparent by itself whenever you go close enough.
Also the effect right now kind of feels as if it is there just for the sake of gameplay, so we are trying to make it cooler and more blended into the world now. As if there actually is a somewhat proper reason why it goes transparent. Let me know if anyone has suggestions for us on how to tackle that best :)

It is technically supporting it yes, but we are not certain yet if the option will also be available in the menu. Some people seem to have trouble getting DX10 to run smoothly so we may do more bad than good by adding it into the menu.

But in any case, one way or another you will be able to turn it on if you would want to.

You don't necessarily need Steam for achievements.

We intend to get it out on as many of those platforms as we can. We will talk more about who/what/where closer to release.

It is going to be sold, but it will be a very reasonable price.

The particle effect of the old one was good for visibility yeah, but it was much too random. Where did those tentacles come from? The new one isn't perfectly flat either. It has small tentacles in its four corners, and big particles the size of the entire button that raise up all the time too. It should be enough.

And if not we will scale the effect up a bit again, easy fix :)

Communication problem within the team, two people thought they had to take care of the pending newspost and they both posted it... We deleted the first one now.

There are no characters. Hard to have conversations then.

There are deliberately no characters you can speak to. The player must feel totally on his own in this dark world, without the comfort of being able to talk to someone.

Yeah we might actually do that :)
We will do something like that later, March or April.

Likely, yes. You will hear more about our distribution plans in a ~month.

It is hard to say because we are not only adding content, we are also changing the old levels a lot. We aim to extend the game with about 40% new or heavily modified content.

Same story but many new areas and features will be added, and a lot of parts will be improved.

Korjax:
-It was last released as UT3 mod in November, just two months ago.
-The UDK build is nothing but a small level demo, it is far far smaller than the mod version, which is about ten times larger than the UDK build.
-The mod version released in 2008 was just three levels large. The one released in November 2009 is many times larger than the 2008 build. The 2009 build had over 5 hours of singleplay gameplay. The 2008 one had 1 hour...

It helps looking into things before commenting.

Congrats to TNM!

That will depend on how the Make Something Unreal contest works out. If we win (you get a full license if you win), then yes there is a possibility that we will support custom levels, but if not then I fear it will not be possible to support it.

We will find out in three weeks.

Already talking to ModDB about getting it on Desura. We will look into API integration later and see how doable it is.

Thanks :)

We are changing a lot of areas for the full game to make it even bigger, and especially, to make it more coherent. Fewer long corridors, more variation, more suspension building, more destructible stuff to roll over with the ball. And so on. We are really changing quite a lot of areas. The second level Oztoc, we just deleted half of that level and replaced it with all new material including a train ride, a train station, a puzzle involving oil, a new mummy introduction, and so on :)