Folks, listen: the videogame biz is a weird place. I can tell you, at least from my strange and specific vantage point as a creator and an entrepreneur, that it seems to be bananas. Sometimes, in good ways. Sometimes something intricate and strange like JETT is able to ride favourable industry currents, reach for the stars, and actually get there. Sometimes you end up with a line-up of interesting people, wishlists in hand, queuing up for what's on offer. More on that in a second, but first lemme get your eyes and ears on today's big item: This is a great great day. and we're *thrilled* to have delivered on JETT's videogame vision satisfyingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lfq60RO90 Today's the day! Arise with us?

• JETT's Steam debut + New 'Given Time' campaign is now available
• Oh and as of now, JETT's on sale: 40% off on Steam.
• Did I mention JETT is pretty great on Steam Deck? Well, yep - it is!

I'd love it if you checked things out and took the plunge. ...this generous and welcoming expansion is deserving of any time given over to it." - Edge magazine If you love #sworcery, odds are good you'll find a fair bit to love in JETT. Sure, on first glance they're wildly different, with JETT's 'Metroid Prime on a snowboard' mechanics and complexity, but on closer inspection they're cut from the same cloth. Both offer a fresh approach to design, a distinct A/V style, characters with soul, a rich audio experience and some kickass music woven into the fabric of things. If you do take the plunge, I should mention that February 2023 is a great time to play JETT, as we'll be playing and streaming too. More on that below.
Patrick at Pine Scented and I have been carving out the unusual genre-space and distinctive universe of JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time for a thousand years err.. I mean a decade now. Its a cool project and were plenty proud of it, and were so glad to have delivered on the vision, and in a satisfying style. Feels good. Bringing JETT to Steam in its now fully-realized form, with the brand new Given Time campaign hitting across the board on Steam, Epic and on PlayStation, feels cool-as-hell. This a special one, one we hope will find its people, stand the test of time, and go on accumulating JETT-heads from here on out.
To mark the moment we've lined up a Devs Launch Day Livestream from 12pm ET to 3pm ET on Tuesday, January 31 at JETT on Steam. I'll be hanging out on stream with JETT Squad folks like scntfc, Richard Flanagan aka @phosfiend, Pine Scented, Priscilla Snow aka @ghoulnoise, Sam Bradley, dev powerhouse Zack Wheeler aka @tankooni, and more. Come on over and hang out? We have some other livestreams on the calendar in February 2023, with some of us playing through Given Time over the course of three Thursday nights. More info on that towards the bottom of this post.
In any case, we hope you dig JETT's unorthodox videogame vision. Tsosi bless!

Oh, as for the misc videogame biz musings...
I'm a dev and creator, dreaming dreams and then building them, day in day out for years. Plenty of practical problem-solving and production chops involved there too. On JETT I have been serving as producer and publisher, too. Like a lot of other videogame entrepeneurs working in this space, I contemplate trends and ponder success stories, and I follow the twists and turns of the dwindling ranks of the videogame press with interest and concern. It's hard to know what to think about where things are going, this is a strange future and only getting stranger. However, I've learned a fair bit, and lived to tell the tale. Grateful for that. I'm eager to put some of these learnings into practice in future efforts, when the time comes. In my publisher/comms role, I've been monitoring the murmurings and spikes of our daily Steam wishlist data since late September 2022 with a keen interest. The spikes are exciting, and it has been gratifying to put something out, wait a bit, and then see the needle move on a meaningful graph.
We've put in a fair amount of amount of honest effort in the last several months preparing and publishing some pretty solid materials intended to get the word out on JETT and Given Time, and be a positive contribution in general. This work has involved me working alongside the excellent Dan Berry, Dustin Harbin, Richard Flanagan and Nick Verge at popagenda to get things done. Just to give you a sense of some of the thing things we've been putting together lately, here's a sampling. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3632750825578792262 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/5310340507211946263 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3642880749849600159 Oh, and: Our launch day post at JETT on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3642880749849611635 Our recent Given Time showcase post, including a mini-FAQ about JETT on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3642880749849600159 Go to the JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time - News Hub to see it all. On the JETT comms-side, I should note: we have another few weeks of goings-on in February 2023 with a 'Given Time Jubilee', including scntfc's JETT: Given Time OST roll-out -- it turned out so great! -- plus we have a series of 'Dev Livestreams - Given Time Debut Playthrough' slated for Thursday evenings in February starting from Feb 9th from 830pm ET to 1030pm ET. Oh, and there may even be few more slabs of JETTdev material in the weeks to come. Hope you dig.
--------------------------------------------------- Where can I find out about more about JETT and Superbrothers A/V? Look to JETT.fyi for all kinds of info, where you can also hop on the Superbrothers A/V - Enthusiasts newsletter. Plus there's Twitter @jettxyz @superbrothersHQ @craigdadams and Instagram @superbrothers. For more on Superbrothers A/V there's also superbrothersHQ.com and swordandsworcery.com. To dive deeper into JETT's creation myth, here are recent longreads from me.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3642880749849543862
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/6926004339899510462
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1761600/view/3625990351998747746

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