The Special Edition of Dirk Dashing: Secret Agent! has been released!
I have ported the original game to the new Dirk 2 engine, so it looks, sounds, and plays better than ever! I've also added 8 brand new levels and made hundreds of tweaks to the existing levels.
You can download a free demo of the new version from http://www.dirkdashing.com
There's also a new strategy guide available for the game. This 128-page electronic booklet includes full-color maps for all 38 levels, walkthroughs, conceptual art, and more! You can download a free sample of the guide and purchase it from here: http://www.dirkdashing.com/dirkdashing1guide.htm
This year marks my 10th anniversary of professional game development, so it's fitting that my first Dirk Dashing game has received a major upgrade. This game (and its sequel) really reflect me, as a person - who I am, and what I like - my love of comic books and classic gaming, my sense of humor, my art, my style of story-telling, and more. The Dirk Dashing games are the kinds of games that I've always wanted to make, and I'm grateful that I've had the opportunity. I hope I can continue to make more of them, because I've got so many other stories I want to tell - not just about Dirk Dashing but about Rick Rocket and some other wonderful characters you haven't even met yet.
I hope you enjoy the game. And "thank you" to everyone who has supported me over the years by buying my games and telling your friends about them! I couldn't keep doing this without you!
Sincerely,
Troy Hepfner
My Game Company
I have ported the original game to the new Dirk 2 engine, so it looks, sounds, and plays better than ever! I've also added 8 brand new levels and made hundreds of tweaks to the existing levels.
You can download a free demo of the new version from http://www.dirkdashing.com
There's also a new strategy guide available for the game. This 128-page electronic booklet includes full-color maps for all 38 levels, walkthroughs, conceptual art, and more! You can download a free sample of the guide and purchase it from here: http://www.dirkdashing.com/dirkdashing1guide.htm
This year marks my 10th anniversary of professional game development, so it's fitting that my first Dirk Dashing game has received a major upgrade. This game (and its sequel) really reflect me, as a person - who I am, and what I like - my love of comic books and classic gaming, my sense of humor, my art, my style of story-telling, and more. The Dirk Dashing games are the kinds of games that I've always wanted to make, and I'm grateful that I've had the opportunity. I hope I can continue to make more of them, because I've got so many other stories I want to tell - not just about Dirk Dashing but about Rick Rocket and some other wonderful characters you haven't even met yet.
I hope you enjoy the game. And "thank you" to everyone who has supported me over the years by buying my games and telling your friends about them! I couldn't keep doing this without you!
Sincerely,
Troy Hepfner
My Game Company
Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month:
Over 50% of my sales yesterday and today have been for the Linux version. So far, I've only posted the news here on GOL, and updated the game's LGDB listing. So I'm pretty sure my surge in sales has had a lot to do with you folks here. So thank you!
I really thought Dirk 2 would do better on Desura than it has, especially with the game's stealth elements and fairly decent production quality (at least compared to some other popular platformers on there that have dozens of pages of reviews). Most of the few reviews/ratings I've received are fairly positive. I don't know if it's the cartoon-style graphics, or the price, or what that has kept it from being more popular... wish I knew...
Also Desura doesn't really do any advertising for games where as Steam does with regular sales (all over the front page), featured games sections etc etc.
Desura don't exactly do much for their games.
I was thinking if I can get Dirk 1 on there, maybe I could run a sale on it and use Dirk 1 to help drive sales of Dirk 2. That's one of the reasons I've spent the past few months upgrading the first game - so I can use it to drive sales of the sequel (not just on Desura but also other channels).