Dim Bulb GamesSerenity Forge · Good Shepherd Entertainment
Hi folks, This patch should fix the video playback issues that players on Linux were experiencing. Please let me know if you see any problems.
Hi folks,
This patch should fix the video playback issues that players on Linux were experiencing. Please let me know if you see any problems.
Hi folks, You may be wondering about the latest update to the game! This is a maintenance update with a few good bug fixes in it - the biggest one is a fix for the problem some players saw where they could not find all the stories in the game. In addition, vignettes are better ra
Hi folks,
You may be wondering about the latest update to the game! This is a maintenance update with a few good bug fixes in it - the biggest one is a fix for the problem some players saw where they could not find all the stories in the game. In addition, vignettes are better randomized, some performance updates, other minor bugs, and the engine was updated to a newer version in order to make things run better and be easier to fix in the future. This should hopefully also fix the crash some users were seeing with newer MacOS versions.
Thanks for playing, and please let me know if you experience any new problems.
Dim Bulb’s quiet and contemplative story tell ’em up Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is still out there, trudging down America’s dusty depression-era roads, collecting and telling stories. Today, it has a few new ones to tell. Today’s Gold Mountain Update adds an official Chines
Dim Bulb’s quiet and contemplative story tell ’em up Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is still out there, trudging down America’s dusty depression-era roads, collecting and telling stories. Today, it has a few new ones to tell. Today’s Gold Mountain Update adds an official Chinese localisation, produced by a crew of dedicated Chinese-speaking fans led by one Ryan Zhang. More importantly for English-speakers, it adds a new set of stories to the game, focused on the lives of Chinese Americans and their alchemized folklore as they became woven into America’s fabric.
Developer Dim Bulb's positively received Depression-era storytelling adventure, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, is ready to spin a few more yarns, courtesy of its newly released, and free, Gold Mountain update. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, the brainchild of Johnnemann Nord
Developer Dim Bulb's positively received Depression-era storytelling adventure, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, is ready to spin a few more yarns, courtesy of its newly released, and free, Gold Mountain update.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, the brainchild of Johnnemann Nordhagen (co-founder of Gone Home developer Fullbright), sends players, in the guise of a roving skeleton, on a cross-country adventure around the United States. It's a game of tales, with the goal being to tease out new stories from the strangers you meet on your travels, trading yarns you've heard elsewhere to gain their trust and learn the end of their particular narratives.
The new Gold Mountain update introduces a fan-made Chinese translation, lead by Ryan Zhang, and a number of new stories focussing on the experiences of Chinese-Americans and their impact on American history and culture. As Dim Bulb puts it, the additions are intended "to honour the millions of Chinese-Americans generally overlooked in American history".
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an ambitious journey through the heartland of American history that unfortunately failed to live up to those ambitions, and is best remembered these days for being a " commercial disaster ." Despite that, a new update for the game called Gold M
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an ambitious journey through the heartland of American history that unfortunately failed to live up to those ambitions, and is best remembered these days for being a "commercial disaster." Despite that, a new update for the game called Gold Mountain was released today that adds full Chinese localization to the free Fireside Chats, and new stories based on the experiences of Chinese immigrants.
The Chinese localization was done by fans, according to the Steam update, who have been working on it for four months so far. "We are humbled and gratified by this, and we hope that Chinese players can play and enjoy our game, and understand our criticism of and reflection on America history and American culture," creator Johnnemann Nordhagen wrote.
"We know that China has its own wonderful and varied folklore in its thousands of years of history, and we hope that players there find our relatively small and brief American history and folklore to be interesting to them."
To pay tribute to the "generally overlooked" role played by Chinese immigrants in US history, new stories that focus on the role they played in shaping the country, written by Serenity Forge head Zhenghua Yang, have also been added to the game.
"From miners in California to the railroad workers who bridged the continent to a whole host of other folks, Chinese immigrants have played a huge role in building this country. We're happy to be able to write more exploring their stories," Nordhagen wrote.
Bolstered by those new stories, the addition of Chinese language support, which includes the full game and the soundtrack lyrics, could help Where the Water Tastes Like Wine find the audience that's eluded it thus far. The localization is currently limited to Fireside Chats, the free "standalone experience" released late last year, but will come to the full game once everything is finished. Owners of the game will get the new content as part of a free update; for those who don't, it's also 60 percent off on Steam until July 17, dropping it to $8/£6/€8.
We're incredibly excited to announce that the Gold Mountain content update is now available. Free for everyone who owns Where The Water Tastes Like Wine on Steam, the Gold Mountain update introduces new tales focusing on the experience of Chinese Americans and their impact on Ame
We're incredibly excited to announce that the Gold Mountain content update is now available. Free for everyone who owns Where The Water Tastes Like Wine on Steam, the Gold Mountain update introduces new tales focusing on the experience of Chinese Americans and their impact on American history and culture. It also introduces full Chinese language support thanks to the amazing work of a wonderful Chinese localization team led by Ryan Zhang.
The update also introduces a variety of performance and quality-of-life improvements, including the following:
The Gold Mountain update was created to honor the millions of Chinese-Americans generally overlooked in American history. We hope that you enjoy the new original stories that are included in the update and look forward to reading all of your thoughts.
Thanks a million for all of your continued support for Where The Water Tastes Like Wine from everyone at Dim Bulb Games, Serenity Forge and Good Shepherd Entertainment!
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Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
*Offer ends Wednesday at 10AM Pacific Time
It is always a hope for a creator that their work can be appreciated widely, across the divide of different countries and languages. 我们认为，艺术和文化理应跨越语言的藩篱，为世界范围内传播和赏鉴。 When we released this game, we are were pleased to see the passionate, excited fans who love the game, and to shar
It is always a hope for a creator that their work can be appreciated widely, across the divide of different countries and languages.
我们认为，艺术和文化理应跨越语言的藩篱，为世界范围内传播和赏鉴。
When we released this game, we are were pleased to see the passionate, excited fans who love the game, and to share American folklore and history with the world.
发布这款游戏，我们即为见证了粉丝们的热情而感到满足，也为世界各地的人们能有机会了解到美国文史而感到荣幸。
Some fans go above and beyond, and create their own art, or writing, or other work of their own to pay homage to the game.
不仅如此，一些粉丝更通过艺术创作、写作或其它作品方式来向游戏致敬。
Some of them speak multiple languages, and decide to translate the game into their own language. This is no small undertaking - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine has almost a million words, and the writing in the game is based very strongly on American culture and history. It is also beautiful and poetic, something often difficult to capture in translation.
他们中的一些人同时懂得英文和中文，并决定将游戏翻译成自己的母语：中文。这不是一件轻松的工作，《彼处水如酒》原始英文版大约包含近百万单词，绝大多数文字都是包含了美国文史背景的文学性描述。
A wonderful Chinese localization team, led by Ryan Zhang, has spent four months to translate the entire game, plus the lyrics to the soundtrack, for players in China. We are humbled and gratified by this, and we hope that Chinese players can play and enjoy our game, and understand our criticism of and reflection on America history and American culture.
Ryan带领的优秀中文本地化团队，历时四个月，为广大中国玩家把整个游戏翻译成了中文！不仅如此，他们还为游戏原声音乐重填了中文歌词！我们对此深感谦卑和欣慰，希望广大中国玩家既能玩得开心，也能了解到我们对美国历史、美国文化的批判和反思。
We know that China has its own wonderful and varied folklore in its thousands of years of history, and we hope that players there find our relatively small and brief American history and folklore to be interesting to them.
我们深知，中国在数千年的历史中，积淀了丰富多彩的民间传说。我们希望，中国玩家能对我们相对简短狭隘的美国历史和民间传说产生些许兴趣。
In addition, to honor the millions of Chinese-Americans generally overlooked in American history, we are also writing new stories for the game that focus more on the role of Chinese-Americans in the US. From miners in California to the railroad workers who bridged the continent to a whole host of other folks, Chinese immigrants have played a huge role in building this country. We're happy to be able to write more exploring their stories.
此外，为了表达我们对沉睡在美国历史中的万千普通华裔的敬意，我们正在为游戏撰写一批新的故事，着力关注华裔角色。从加州的矿工，到联结大路桥的铁路工人，中国移民为建设这个国家发挥过巨大的作用。我们很高兴能多多撰写探索他们的故事。
Today I am happy to release the free Chinese version of Fireside Chats, and to announce that we will release the full Chinese version of the game once we have finished the new content.
今天，我很高兴能首先发布免费中文版的《彼处水如酒：炉边夜话》，并宣布我们一旦完成新追加内容，就发布中文完整版游戏。
Thank you all for playing!
感谢您的赏玩！
Story-collectathon Where The Water Tastes Like Wine now has a free companion game, Fireside Chats, which falls somewhere between expansion and demo. The new release includes sixteen fresh stories, each told by one of the main characters that returning players will recognise, as w
Story-collectathon Where The Water Tastes Like Wine now has a free companion game, Fireside Chats, which falls somewhere between expansion and demo. The new release includes sixteen fresh stories, each told by one of the main characters that returning players will recognise, as well as the existing first chapter, so new players can get a feel for what to expect if they go on to purchase the main game.
The story of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an interesting one. Some game sites rated it very highly, while others—including ours—were much cooler on it. Some of the tales it tells "are beautiful, and they're all important," we wrote in our review , but they're told "at an a
The story of Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is an interesting one. Some game sites rated it very highly, while others—including ours—were much cooler on it. Some of the tales it tells "are beautiful, and they're all important," we wrote in our review, but they're told "at an agonizingly slow pace" that brings the entire experience down. And in any event, it was a sales disaster.
Despite all that, publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment isn't letting it go quietly. Today it released a free, standalone "companion" to the game called Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats, which adds new story content to all of the tales told in the 16 chapters of the core game.
"Like the full game, the Where The Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats experience allows players wander through the United States—and through a century of history—to meet a variety of people, each with their own stories to tell," Good Shepherd said.
Fireside Chats also serves as a demo for the original release, as it includes all of the Dire Wolf's first chapter from the full game.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats is currently available exclusively on Steam. Good Shepherd said there's a chance it will make it to GOG as well (the core game is available there), but "it won't be anytime soon."
Hi Folks, As a free companion game to WTWTLW, we've released "Fireside Chats". This contains new stories told by each of the 16 characters, plus the full first chapter conversation with Dire Wolf. This content is new and not seen in the full game. You can find it here . Thank you
Hi Folks,
As a free companion game to WTWTLW, we've released "Fireside Chats". This contains new stories told by each of the 16 characters, plus the full first chapter conversation with Dire Wolf. This content is new and not seen in the full game.
Thank you again for playing, and I hope you enjoy all these new tales, as well.
The old quote is wrong: neither death nor taxes are, it seems to me, as terrifyingly certain as the Steam Summer Sale . Yes, once more we can add to the heap that is our backlog by buying games for, what, five quid, on average? But there are so many to choose from that it’s easy
The old quote is wrong: neither death nor taxes are, it seems to me, as terrifyingly certain as the Steam Summer Sale. Yes, once more we can add to the heap that is our backlog by buying games for, what, five quid, on average? But there are so many to choose from that it’s easy to get flustered, so who better than the staff of RPS to hand-pick the best ones for your consideration (rhetorical question; do not answer)?
Check out the full list below for a mix of games that should suit all pockets and tastes.
Depression-era storytelling adventure Where the Water Tastes Like Wine just received a new update, adding 15 free new tales to enliven its captivating cross-country exploration. Developed by Dim Bulb, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a bit of an unusual one, setting players of
Depression-era storytelling adventure Where the Water Tastes Like Wine just received a new update, adding 15 free new tales to enliven its captivating cross-country exploration.
Developed by Dim Bulb, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a bit of an unusual one, setting players off (having been turned into a skeleton by Sting) on a genteel jaunt through a folkloric Depression-era United States. You'll meet strangers along the way, and, sitting by the flickering firelight, must gradually gain their trust, sharing the stories you've heard on your travels until they're willing to reveal their own tales.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is the brainchild of Fullbright co-founder and Gone Home programmer Johnnemann Nordhagen, and features stories by a wide range of writers, each brought to life by a strong cast - including Firewatch's Cissy Jones, Mass Effect's Kimberly Brooks, Gone Home's Sarah Elmaleh, and, yes, Sting.
Story-collecting stroll ’em up Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has added more strange, delightful, and terrible tales to hear in a free update. Our dearly-departed Adam praised the original game’s Americana stories, written by a wide team of writers, in his Where The Water Taste
Story-collecting stroll ’em up Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has added more strange, delightful, and terrible tales to hear in a free update. Our dearly-departed Adam praised the original game’s Americana stories, written by a wide team of writers, in his Where The Water Tastes Like Wine review and more are certainly welcome. The dead man wasn’t so keen on the game around the stories, mind, but the developers are continuing to tweak that. This update also added an auto-walk button, see, to make your skellington stroll without you hold a key or button. The game is on sale now too. (more…)
We were pretty excited about American folk-tale travelogue Where the Water Tastes Like Wine when we first heard about it, but upon release our reviewer Tyler Wilde was moderate in his praise : "It tells over 200 tiny tales, and several bigger ones, at an agonizingly slow pace. Th
We were pretty excited about American folk-tale travelogue Where the Water Tastes Like Wine when we first heard about it, but upon release our reviewer Tyler Wilde was moderate in his praise: "It tells over 200 tiny tales, and several bigger ones, at an agonizingly slow pace. There's truth to find within its choppy transcontinental trek, but it comes at the expense of sore eyes."
Since then it's been updated, and a patch from March added the ability to return to locations by using the mementos found there, and also increased the distance covered by fast-travel between cities in the second half of the game. The June 3 patch, called the 'Tall Tales Update', further tweaks the pacing, with an autowalk option activated by pressing F so you don't have to wear down the W key on your long trek across the United States (it's right bumper on controller). As well as modifying the way travel works, and catching a few bugs, this patch adds to the trove of tales you'll find while criss-crossing America.
As the patch notes put it, "We've released some new stories by some new writers! In the latest update you'll find 15 new vignettes scattered around the country, ranging from the terrifying to the disgusting to the hilarious." If you've been put off Where the Water Tastes Like Wine due to its stately tempo, seems like now is the time to give it another chance.
We've released some new stories by some new writers! In the latest update you'll find 15 new vignettes scattered around the country, ranging from the terrifying to the disgusting to the hilarious. All of them are voiced once again by the talented Keythe Farley. In addition, we've
We've released some new stories by some new writers! In the latest update you'll find 15 new vignettes scattered around the country, ranging from the terrifying to the disgusting to the hilarious. All of them are voiced once again by the talented Keythe Farley.
In addition, we've fixed a few bugs, and added an autowalk mode - Press the F key on keyboard, or the right bumper on controller to walk steadily forward without needing to hold the key or stick.
Thank you for playing!
Hi! Today I'm putting in a change that will hopefully smooth out the story distribution. Instead of having all of the stories in a spot show up right away, some of them will only appear once you're further along the main task. This will mean that visiting places you've already be
Hi!
Today I'm putting in a change that will hopefully smooth out the story distribution. Instead of having all of the stories in a spot show up right away, some of them will only appear once you're further along the main task.
This will mean that visiting places you've already been will be more interesting, and that you won't get more stories than you know what to do with early on.
As always, please let me know about feedback or bugs in the forum!
Thanks for playing.
Hi! Today I'm putting in a change that will hopefully smooth out the story distribution. Instead of having all of the stories in a spot show up right away, some of them will only appear once you're further along the main task. This will mean that visiting places you've already be
Hi!
Today I'm putting in a change that will hopefully smooth out the story distribution. Instead of having all of the stories in a spot show up right away, some of them will only appear once you're further along the main task.
This will mean that visiting places you've already been will be more interesting, and that you won't get more stories than you know what to do with early on.
As always, please let me know about feedback or bugs in the forum!
Thanks for playing.
HI folks! Today's patch adds more tutorialization, including an in-game manual! Press D-Pad up or H on the keyboard to view it. Please let me know if you think anything in there could be clarified or expanded. In addition, mousewheel should work on the story swap screen now, and
HI folks! Today's patch adds more tutorialization, including an in-game manual! Press D-Pad up or H on the keyboard to view it. Please let me know if you think anything in there could be clarified or expanded.
In addition, mousewheel should work on the story swap screen now, and I've fixed a few other minor bugs. As always, please feel free to give me your feedback, suggestions, or bug reports and I will do my best to help.
Thanks for playing!