Wow, talk about a curious turn of events. It was like every other weekend, when I poked around my website, cleaned out the dozens of spam comments etc. This is when I stumbled onto something peculiar: The windows version of my strategy-game, Blobbit, had been downloaded more than 8.000 times—this month alone!

Now if this were the Mac version, I’d be hardly surprised, as I have a download link for this game on Apple.com, a notoriously high-traffic site. But no—it was the windows version and the windows version only!

Further investigation revealed that a Czech website had reviewed my game, not only that – but from what I could make out with Google translate, the review was extremely favorable! The author praised the games strategy aspect, it’s fresh gameplay and ahem… the games’ polish. (I abandoned the project back then—thanks to the horrible spaghetti code within…) Soon other Czech game download/review sites followed suit and what happened … err happened.

Now spaghetti code & project abandonment or not: I am amazed and encouraged by the kind words and on-going downloads. A sequel to correct the predecessors shortcomings, suddenly has become a lot more likely. Hence a warm “Děkuji moc!” to my Czech readers!

For those that are able to read Czech, the original article is here.

All the others might consider the Google-translate flavor.