Where did you hear about FTL?

General discussion about the game.
Warbird
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Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Warbird » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:26 am

I'm curious as to how the word's getting around for the game. I'm dabbling in marketing, so this kind of thing interests me. Being a MIS major, I also tend to get overly excited an new Ubuntu distributions; I live a strange life.


Personally, I came across the below Kotaku article, reprinted from RPS, and got in on the Kickstarter.
http://kotaku.com/5889331/ftl-is-the-st ... ed?tag=ftl

I haven't seem much buzz about it anywhere else though. I do know that there are a few other fans of it on /v/ (terrible site, but good for finding indie games), but there hasn't been much talk about it lately. Where did you come across the game?
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Gorlom » Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:26 am

Through kickstarter after going there for double fine's adventure game.
Hoa_Binh
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Hoa_Binh » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:54 am

Read about it in Swedish PC Gamer, had a 1/3 of a page that got me interested.

/Anders
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Stelly » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:57 am

I heard about it on a forum... forums.overclockers.co.uk heard about alot of inde games in the Pc gaming section, they promote them alot.

Stelly
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby chanman » Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:31 am

US market PC Gamer or whatever we get in Canada
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Able_Baker » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:35 am

Voodoo Extreme 3D, although it's dead now because IGN stopped paying for staff :(
Samson
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Samson » Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:43 pm

My brother! We were talking about Kickstarter and he mentioned FTL.
CEO
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby CEO » Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:49 pm

US PC Gamer here as well. Was a fantastic article.
Chief
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby Chief » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:32 pm

RockPaperShotgun had the article that drew me in. In fact, here it is: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/28/beaming-ftl-is-the-star-trek-game-ive-always-wanted/
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Re: Where did you hear about FTL?

Postby fallout » Fri Apr 27, 2012 4:41 pm

Chief wrote:RockPaperShotgun had the article that drew me in. In fact, here it is: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/28/beaming-ftl-is-the-star-trek-game-ive-always-wanted/
Same here. After reading that, seeing the response on Kickstarter probably got me even more interested.

On the point of marketing, though ... the game has to interest me for any of that to matter.