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Hello again.

Since I love this mario-meets-portal game, I'd like to spread it among the gaming world. I was thinking about something : would a "Pay what you want" action will benefit to Grappling Hook ? Similars offers have been tried lately by indies, with some success :

- World Of Goo, with a huge success (83 250 copy sold for an average price of 2,03€, aoutch) http://2dboy.com/2009/10/26/pay-what-you-want-birthday-sale-wrap-up/
- Caster, which I just bought for 5$ (its normal price), a funny 3D action shooter. By buying it, you'll get all the coming episodes for free (http://www.elecorn.com/caster3d/index.html)
- Sleep Is Death, another german original creation. Note that the "Name your price" operation comes with a minimum of 1,75 to cover payment processing fees and download bandwidth. (http://sleepisdeath.net)
- The Lunar Pack, which contains two games by BossBaddie (http://satansam.co.uk/bossbaddie)
- not to mention the humble indie Pack, which raised more than 1 200 000$ shared between 3 charities and the 5 developpers of the given games. http://www.wolfire.com/humble

What is better ? To sold a hundred copies at 12€ or 2000 copies at 5€ ? Of course, there is always the risk to get a very small price for the game, but you could put a minimum as it was done for Sleep Is Death to prevent that For example, 5€ would be correct, I think, but also, by doing this, you'll loose the "support some indie games by fixing yourself a correct price"...

With some communication and a bit of buzzing among forums (which I could highly contribute), you could gain a bit of success.

What do you think about it ?

Hello. I love Grappling Hook. I wonder : will you make it avalaible on online stores like steam or Direct2Drive ?
By doing so, you will be able to sell lot more copies and enlarge your p...ublic ;-)

Hello Nico,

the online stores decide which games are part of their catalog.

Right now people can buy Grappling Hook in this online shops:
Gamersgate: http://www.gamersgate.com/all?q=Grappling+Hook+SpeedRun
Archive Games: http://www.archivegames.net/game.php?gameID=grappling_hook
Macgamestore: http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=1294

I'm confident that with more users more stores will accept Grappling Hook in their catalog.

Best regards,
Christian