Hello Everyone,
The Steam Summer Sale is here and for us, this is a great opportunity to celebrate with the fantastic VR community! It's no secret that while Rainbow Reactor does well and ranks in the top 5-10% of VR-only games in Steam, this is not an area where you make money, due to the small user base. From our experience, only the top 1% can make back their investment with VR at the moment, but for us, this doesn't matter too much, as we have great fun with all of you guys! So our take is to be patient, make the game grow and make a lot of noise for VR while doing so, so the community will become bigger, ultimately enabling more and more indie devs to create financially sustainable VR games :D
One big source of motivation this year was the German Remix Competition held by the popular local blog VR-Legion.de - there were lots of great entries and prizes. To share the fun we had with everyone, we now inlcuded the winning title "Game Over" by D.u.B. TV featuring GamingLady Nici into our Original Soundtrack. This music collection has also been enhanced with another title, the music from the trailer, which is the "Theme from Wonderful World 3D" by Swedish composer Andreas Ahlm. Currently, the OST is on sale at a 60% discount, so if you want to pass a little tip in our direction, feel free to buy it ;D
As an additional incentive, we have now added uncompressed WAV files of every title to the OST.
The game itself is currently 70% discounted, but the biggest saving is in the combo bundle of game + OST, which has its biggest discount yet. If you have some friends who could be interested in Rainbow Reactor, you would do us a great favor by letting them know. Another thing that helps small devs immensely, is writing Steam reviews. For us, this is now more true than ever, as we are very close to the threshhold where we are allowed to introduce Trading Cards to the game! We have already set everything up and are only waiting for the Steam algorithm to confirm that we have enough positive reviews. So that is another thing to look forward to. :-)
For now, we also added more unlockables to the game - the "museum tour" now features several TV sets showing background information about the game. The inventor of Chroma Fusion, Alfred Luzian von Hoffenhasselbrock, will explain to you the origins of the Rainbow Reactor. And going back to the community, we received even more "Fan Music" outside of the official Remix competition in the form of user Wuzzel's "Imaginary End Credit Theme For Rainbow Reactor". Well, it's not imaginary anymore! We have included another TV that can be accessed after beating the game, playing this great piece of music and showing the credits for the game.
We hope you all have a great summer, a lot of fun playing, and that you can snatch up a couple VR titles in the sale, and maybe even write reviews for them. This means a lot to small developers and we can tell you first hand, it will definitely help improve and grow the world of VR, which ultimately is great for all of us :D
All the best from the Rainbow Reactor team :-)