#sworcery is now on Steam for PC

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Ladies & gentlemen,

It's time to point & click on PC via Steam with an olde fashioned new edition of S:S&S EP for electric computers. Explore the foothills, forests & subterrenean caverns of Mingi Taw as never before - with a two-button mouse! Have you completed The Scythian's woeful errand and borne witness to the awful torment of martyrdom?

• Get/gift S:S&S EP + S&S LP on Steam today (get it now for a 25% discount).

From a robotic representative from Superbrothers Inc.:

"This new edition includes Jim Guthrie's legendarily epic Sword & Sworcery LP in its entirety. Fitting into the continuum of great adventure games on PC, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP has been re-engineered by videogame wizards at Capy to be a faithful representation of the original touchtronic edition, only it has been adapted to better fit the input style of the two-button mouse. The new edition looks & sounds pretty fancy, plus it's still pretty darn affordable, so we're hoping to connect with a whole new audience with this 'choice cut of myth & dreams' that has been hilariously described as "A landmark achievement, it does for independent game design what the Washington Monument did for independent obelisk design"(Rob Dubbin, Kill Screen Magazine).

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Some other relevant blurbz: 

• "Apart from a few glaring spelling errors, I found this game to be extremely pleasant." - Tim Schafer, Double Fine honcho, known for Day Of The Tentacle, Full Throttle & Psychonauts

• "I was almost crying when I was burning to ashes." - Eric Chahi, known for Another World, From Dust

• "One of the top 10 videogames of 2011." - Lev Grossman, Time Magazine

Note: This new edition will also be available for Mac before the summer solstice.

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Enjoying the music in that clip? That's a remix of Jim Guthrie's song The Ballad of the Space Babies. The new mix is by Scntfc, who also provided lunatic soundscapes for a hidden room in S:S&S EP known as The Moon Grotto, a location that only a few of you found (you need to get to Session 3 & fight The Grizzled Boor on Side B, retrieve his key & use it on the locked door on the road up to Mingi Taw near the stone tablet with the lunar pictrograms).

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Confession: We had to mess with Scntc's remix a bit for the clip but you'll be able to enjoy the full-length song  via Scntfc's Moon Grotto 7" on vinyl (available soon to the folks who kickstarted Venus Patrol). Scntc's remix will probably be available via the internet a little later on.

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LISTEN? If you'd like to listen to an excerpt from this Scntfc remix then you might like to click here. Thank you for your attention, patience & faith.

 

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3 days to get psyched

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Here are three reasons why we're super psyched about the new edition of S:S&S EP for electric computers that will be launching for PC via Steam in only three days (!):

oo1. PRESS PLAY X 2. For the first time we're able to bundle Jim Guthrie's legendary S&S LP record in with the videogame. This record is more than just a videogame soundtrack, it's Jim's first full-length solo record since 2004's acclaimed Now More Than Ever, and the music is in many ways foundational for the whole project. Some of the songs on the record directly inspired the creation of specific sections of S:S&S EP (Under a Tree, Dark Flute, Lone Star, Little Furnace), some of the songs go way back (And We Got Older, How We Get Old). Many of the songs were composed specifically for the project (Doom Sock, The Ballad of the Space Babie, Unknowable Geometry). Says maestro Jim Guthrie: “One of our earliest goals for the game was to create a space that could also be described as ‘an album you can walk through.’ That concept changed a bit along the way, but I always wrote the music with the album in mind.” 

oo2. THE BROADEST, MOST LITERATE AUDIENCE. Soon, anyone with an electric computer will be able to participate in our 'psychosocial audiovisual experiment'... perhaps it will cure soul sickness once & for all? The S:S&S EP project was handcrafted by a tiny team: it was made with love, with imagination, with warmth, with artistic ambition, with humility & with jokes. Our efforts have so far been rewarded beyond our expectations: the original touchtronic edition found a broad, enthusiastic audience - it even ended up in a lot of end-of-year top ten lists & scooped a pile of awards. Now, one year later, it's a genuine thrill to be releasing S:S&S EP on a platform with a rich history of experimental, literate, interesting, music-inspired videogame-type-things. 

oo3. REMASTERED FOR THE HOME THEATRE. This new edition looks pretty fancy & it sounds plenty nice, plus it feels natural as a 21st century re-imagining of the classic point & click adventure. If you've been meaning to replay S:S&S EP, or if you never quite completed The Scythian's heartbreaking story and you're looking for a reason to start again, then we think this is a pretty sweet opportunity to jump back in (and who knows, maybe there are still secrets to discover). 

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So yeah - if you've never played S:S&S EP but you fondly remember the Sierra & Lucasarts adventures of the early 90s AND/OR if you are in love with the mood & style of Eric Chahi's Another World or Fumito Ueda's Ico AND/OR you find yourself pining for something with a classic The Legend of Zelda vibe AND/OR maybe you just want to play around with something laid back while hanging out in a prog rock videogame concept album... well, then... you have 3 days to get psyched!

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP launches on Monday, April 16th for PC via Steam, it will be made available for Mac before the summer solstice. The Steam editions of S:S&S EP will include Jim Guthrie's record Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies (also available at Jim Guthrie's internet record shop on vinyl & audiocassette). The whole thing together will only cost a coupla dollars more than what it currently is on Apple's touchtronic machinery, so please do get or gift it & help us spread the word!

point & click?

POINT & CLICK? from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery on Vimeo. 

/////////////////////////// ANNOUNCING A NEW EDITION OF S:S&S EP

Ladies & gentlemen, old friends & uninitiated participants:

We are genuinely psyched to announce and/or acknowledge the existence of a new edition of S:S&S EP for the electric computer (ie: PC & Mac).

Here are the relevant bullet points: 

• Play this new edition at the Capy booth at PAX East in Boston in early April.
• Point & click on PC via Steam 'before the next dark moon' aka 'very soon'.
• This new edition will be made available for Apple computers 'before the summer solstice'.

Last spring around the vernal equinox, the original touchtronic edition of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP was made available for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad. Jim Guthrie's full-length companion record Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies was launched alongside. Both have been warmly received by audiences & critics alike. It is our sincere hope that this new edition of the project will connect with a broad audience, people who have access to a computer and who have a fondness for musically-inclined computer-enabled stories of myth & mystery.

Note: This edition is intended to be a faithful representation of the original S:S&S EP experience. It has been minorly adapted to better suit player input via the two-button mouse, and some audiovisual elements have been subtly refined as appropriate by Capy, Jim Guthrie & Superbrothers Inc.

To stay in the loop as more information becomes available you may wish to bookmark the S&S project's news feed (ie: swordandsworcery.com/news) and/or Capy's news feed www.capybaragames.com.

Should you wish to receive instantaneous micro-bulletins from Capy, Jim Guthrie & Superbrothers Inc on Twitter or if you'd prefer to be looped in via the Teletex Bulletin, an erratic email broadcast from Superbrothers Inc, then please click here. 

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