{"id":103,"date":"2015-12-31T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythicbattles-scenarios.com\/wormwood\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/31\/auld-lang-syne\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:07:26","slug":"auld-lang-syne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormwoodstudios.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/31\/auld-lang-syne\/","title":{"rendered":"Auld lang syne"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nNotwithstanding the continuing lack of any new games, 2015 has been an amazing year for Wormwood Studios for a couple reasons. <\/div>\n
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\nFirst, Primordia<\/em> sold about 50% more copies in its third year than it did in its second, received a beautiful French translation, and rose into the top 15 user-rated games on Steam.  It also crossed a significant threshold: over 100,000 copies sold.<\/div>\n
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\nSecond, I fulfilled an adolescent dream of being able to work on the closest thing to a second Planescape: Torment<\/em> — namely, Torment: Tides of Numenera<\/em>.  It’s been a humbling experience to be just one of many writers<\/a>, with only a small part to play in the greater scheme, but all the same, the 70,000-odd words I’ve poured in so far seem to me to be among the best I’ve written.  As I’ve said many times, Primordia <\/em>was heavily inspired by the original Torment<\/em>, so this feels like closing a circle.<\/div>\n
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\nWhile life has a way of going awry, next year looks to be even more exciting.  Primordia<\/em> will be getting a Spanish translation (currently about two thirds complete) and — if Wadjet Eye Games can clear its pipeline — an iOS release. There are also Polish and German translations, and a new Russian translation, although I am not especially confident that these will be finished anytime soon.<\/div>\n
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\nMore importantly, we have three games in the works, which I’ll list in order of my confidence that they’ll be done in 2016.<\/div>\n
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\nFirst, James Spanos — Primordia<\/em>‘s coder — will be releasing Until I Have You<\/a><\/em>, an action game that is rather tricky to classify.  It has elements of Canabalt<\/em>, Ninja Gaiden<\/em>, and Hotline: Miami<\/em>, but is absolutely its own distinct creature.  I’ve had some peripheral involvement in revising the writing, but otherwise this show belongs to James and his artistic collaborator, Andrea Ferrara.  UIHY<\/em> has been in development for over a year and it’s fully playable, with about 90% of the content in place.  This kind of game requires a huge amount of testing and honing, but I can’t see any way that James doesn’t get it over the finish line.<\/div>\n
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