look great from the screenshots,
the atmosphere is very good and the model is good too.
but I can't download the demo because is too big (~400megs).
can you make the little demo version?
because I wanna play it badly.

Heheheh, just buy it, it's worth it, isn't too expensive either, so .. ,

Cheers

There's a new patch:

http://www.adventuregamers.com/newsitem.php?id=1228

Yeah, I also saw a review on gamespot. Actually the review was kinda bad, the game is better than what they want us to believe. Or at least that's my opinion off course ... They gave a 4,2 mark, but visiting users think it's more like a 7,2, which sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Cheers

Very nice work !
The problem for me is the long texts ...I am kinda man of action

Gamespot isn't exactly the most objective site for reviews. They have reviewed some of the great adventure games very high(in the mid 80s to mid 90s), but they are inconsistent. Some reviews are scathing for no other reason than the author is an adv. game hater and has no business reviewing a game in a genre they despise.

The overall average ranking of Daemonica is 73% according to the Game Rankings website. Reviews are all over the place from the absurdly low 4.2/10 at Gamespot to close to perfect from others. Most are around the 7 to 8(70-80%) mark. Interestingly, two of the biggest adv. game sites on the internet, Just Adventure and Adventure Gamers, are two of the lower scores(3.5/5 and C+). However Gameboomers and Quandary are higher(8/10 and 4/5):

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/926011.asp

TripleX

The game is the first game made with 3DGS where I can not see that it is made with 3DGS with the first view

Just as a matter of curiosity
How can you normaly distinguish a 3DGS game at a first glance ?
What kind of details I mean ?

Thanks

Hello,

in the German magazine Gamestar (07/2006) the game got a rating of 47%. They critisized the long text passages and that you just have to click on every answer in the dialogues. However, they said that the story was very good.
Unfortunatly, I haven't tested it myself yet, but the screenshots look very nice and professional.

I don't know why, but the big sites (with some exceptions) and paper magazines do mark Daemonica low.

However as far as I can tell we got also some more positive reviews in Germany (most of them being webzines though):

4Players 78%
GBase 6/10
PC games 60%
X zine Extrem gut
CNet.de Average
GameCaptain.de 68%
WithinGames.net 3/5

In America, according to gamerankings.com, we have average 73% (with about 25 reviews).

There's still a _lot_ to learn but I guess it's quite a good start

Adventure games are "hot" in Germany right now. The genre still reigns supreme in Europe it seems with certain titles selling hundreds of thousands of units(Runaway, Syberia, etc). However, your game is doing remarkably well, overall, in the rankings when compared with most adventures. Some of the more well known, much larger budget titles get horridly low scores. For example, "The Moment of Silence" scored I believe a 25% or maybe a 15% in PC Gamer US. I recall X-Play on G4 tearing it a new one, too. I own the game, and it does have issues, but it does not warrant such a score. It's a C+, maybe B- title.

Gamespot seems to have a reputation for being an adventure game hating Mecca, however I once did a quick search of scores for some of the "big boys" and here's what I found:

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The Longest Journey - 9.3
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - 8.1
Grim Fandango - 9.3
Curse of Monkey Island(part 3) - 9.0
Escape from Monkey Island(part 4) - 8.1
Syberia - 9.1
Syberia II - 7.8
Runaway: A Road Adventure - 7.5
Myst - 8.9
Riven - 7.8
Myst III - 8.7
Myst IV - 8.5
Myst V - 7.9
Myst Uru - 7.8
The Last Express - 7.9
Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy - 8.4
The Moment of Silence - 6.4
Daemonica - 4.8

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It all comes down to who reviews the game. I can't recall the game, but there was one review on there that was so bad and had so many opinions stated against the genre that it was readily apparent that the author absolutely hated the genre as a whole regardless of title. They did everything short of coming out and saying "I hate adventure games and here is my review." Hell, I think they did, and I think I even posted about it here. I know Adventure Gamer's forum users had a field day with it.

Is Daemonica selling well? Are you satisfied and do your returns warrant a new game? If you are allowed to, you should submit your statistics to the guy who runs http://www.gameproducer.net/ It features a very cool Sales Statistics section, and he is always on the lookout for new entries. A postmortem would be something to think about, as well.

Anyway, it's trendy to throw some hate at the genre because of a bandwagon effect created by young, uneducated(in regards to their experience with the genre...gaming started with Half-Life for some of these clowns) reviewers. However, it's "cool" and "hip" to love on classics like Grim Fandango, Curse of Monkey Island, Syberia, The Last Express, and The Longest Journey. They certainly deserve to be loved, but some of that love is as phoney as TUSC on a good day.