"I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed", says dev of a game that's now been Steamrolled by Valve twice

Sci-fi sandbox Planet Centauri keeps being the unfortunate of unfortunate timing connected the storefront

Sometimes things hap that you can't control. That's present been the lawsuit for developers Permadeath and their 2D sandbox Planet Centauri doubly connected Steam, with archetypal a wishlist bug and much precocious the uncover of Valve's caller hardware landing astatine conscionable the close clip to marque the devs' task of getting eyeballs connected their crippled much challenging than it would usually be.

As reported by Polygon, Planet Centauri's 1.0 motorboat successful December past twelvemonth saw it tally into what its developers were aboriginal informed by Valve to beryllium "a bug that impacted a precise tiny fig of crippled releases (less than 100 since 2015) wherever wishlist email notifications for the motorboat of a crippled were not sent". Oof. Valve, to their credit, did connection Permadeath a make-good successful the signifier of having the crippled popular up arsenic 1 of Steam's regular deals, which the steamy storerunners hoped would "help marque up for mislaid visibility" from that motorboat time bug.

The workplace were reportedly initially hesitant to instrumentality up the offer, but ended up picking November 12th from a enactment of dates Valve offered. That time rolled astir and boom: Valve announced a caller Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame VR headset. Naturally, Valve switched up the Steam storefront to blare that large quality beforehand and centre, making it overmuch much hard than usually mightiness beryllium the lawsuit for immoderate deals oregon income to instrumentality retired and drawback folks' attention.

Laurent Lechat, 1 of Planet Centauri's devs, says they've had to chalk this up to yet different lawsuit of "bad luck". They cognize they couldn't person expected Valve to connection a heads up by blabbing their large Steam instrumentality quality to the workplace up of time. "The time was chosen much oregon little randomly connected our end," Lechat said. There's possibly an statement that, depending connected erstwhile it locked successful that day for the large reveals, Valve could person blocked retired the 12th arsenic a no-go portion for deals, truthful whichever games mightiness person been successful enactment to beryllium featured during it didn't extremity up successful a conflict they'd not expect.

Though, Permadeath's devs marque wide that they did inactive get immoderate traction retired of the regular deal, contempt the pugnacious eyeball competition. A small implicit 5,000 copies shifted connected that day, which is little than the workplace hoped and seemingly little than the bump successful sum erstwhile the quality of the bug affecting Planet Centauri's 1.0 motorboat netted them erstwhile it broke a mates of months ago.

Despite that, Lechat stressed that these income volition inactive assistance successful the studio's efforts to support connected trucking, saying: "what seems similar a tiny magnitude volition beryllium a large assistance due to the fact that it's capable for america to past for astatine slightest a twelvemonth and let america to decorativeness our 2nd game, which is presently successful development." That game's a 2D roguelike which'll beryllium getting a demo erstwhile it's acceptable and won't beryllium pursuing Planet Centauri's aboriginal entree path.

What the latter's destiny successful presumption of further updates ends up being depends connected however good its fresher sibling does. Permadeath aren't against returning to it, adjacent if Lechat understandably has "the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed" fixed conscionable however overmuch amusive it's tally into implicit the past twelvemonth and a bit.