Speed Dating for Ghosts
Teeny Tiny Expansion Update
Just a quick update regarding the Speed Dating for Ghosts expansion.
Personal circumstances slowed work on it, but it's getting done, dang it. I'm hiding in a hole until it's finished. Then it should appear in your games via update like a ghost in the corner of the room, wavin' hello.
More specific news soon and thanks for your patience!
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
60% off Ghost Love for One Day Only!
To celebrate the IGF Awards, happening tonight (March 20, 2019) at GDC, Speed Dating for Ghosts is on mega sale for a measly 24 hours!
From now until Thursday at 10 am PST, take 60% off here on Steam!
A ton of other great nominees are also being featured in an indie-centric sale for the ages! Support our fellow indies. The people who made these games are good and worked pretty hard probably.
Here's a neat page that collects all the nominated indies available on Steam in one place.
Rue Morgue's Best Indie Game of 2018
When the magazine reviewed the game back in May, they gave it five skull and crossbones out of five. Or is that skulls and crossbones?
"It may be short and sweet," games editor Evan Millar wrote, "but Speed Dating for Ghosts' one-two punch of stellar writing and refined ambiance make it a debut title that's worth screaming like a banshee for, even to those scared stiff by the thought of playing a visual novel."
Pretty rad.
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
Speed Dating for Ghosts Expansion Trailer
To celebrate, here's a trailer I put together for the upcoming free expansion to the game. The plan is to release it as soon as possible but also when it's ready, so like a ghost, it'll simply appear out of thin air one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad2cpDiVIe0&t=2s
Like I said on the Twitter, thanks to everyone who has played our weird thing. We love every tweet, every piece of fan art, every tattoo(!). You are all amazing!
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
IGF 2019 Honorable Mention for Excellence in Narrative
Oh no, I forgot to post about this on Steam!
Speed Dating for Ghosts has received an honorable mention for Excellence in Narrative from the 2019 Independent Games Festival.
The nominees for Excellence in Narrative include:
Wandersong
Genital Jousting
Unavowed
Seers Isle
Watch Me Jump
Return of the Obra Dinn
Other honorable mentions in the narrative category include: Do Not Feed The Monkeys; The Hex; after HOURS; Fortune-499; Marie's Room; and Tango: The Adventure Game.
We are honored to be mentioned among these stellar story games and absolutely encourage you to give some of them a whirl. Steam links are above. Obra Dinn in particular is holy moly.
Now is a particularly good time to get some new games, what with Steam's Lunar New Year Sale.
And if for some god forsaken reason you're reading this and HAVEN'T picked up Speed Dating for Ghosts yet... first of all, the nerve, and secondly, you can get it for 40% off during the sale.
It's an even better deal if you get our game as part of the Eerie Indies Bundle along with Cultist Simulator, Oxenfree, Guacamelee!, A Mortician's Tale, and Flipping Death.
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
Price Drop: Date Ghosts for $6.99 USD
Carl here. That's me up there. I'm a bank robber, so I know a deal when I see one.
I just wanted to let you know that this game I have a small part in, called Speed Dating for Ghosts or something, is now just $6.99 USD.
Every day.
No sale required.
That's basically the price of a footlong over roasted chicken submarine sandwich at your local franchised sandwich shop.
I love footlong submarine sandwiches. But they go away once you eat 'em. Get these ghosts and they'll haunt your Steam library for way longer.
Sincerely,
Carl
Trading Cards Hint at New Content
We are also working on an expansion that adds some new ghosts!
Check yer inventory. You just may get a sneak peek at a new ghost friend who isn’t in the game yet!
Or you’ll get Kyo!
Also badges, emoticons... all kinds of fun community content! Because you're all awesome and why the heck not!
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
Introducing the Eerie Indies Bundle
Beginning today, you can purchase Speed Dating for Ghosts as part of a scary good Steam bundle that also includes:
- Guacamelee! 2: Wrestle your way through the worlds of the living and the dead.
- Cultist Simulator: Grow a cult in a cunning narrative card game.
- Oxenfree: Investigate a spooky island and learn its haunting secrets.
- A Mortician's Tale: Prepare bodies and learn what life's like as a mortician.
- Flipping Death: Temp for Death to possess the living and aid the dead.
Look at all these spooky stories! Buying the bundle gets you 20% off all of 'em. And if you already have some, you can take 20% off any remaining games!
Halloween is a particularly good time to take advantage of this, as many of these eerie indies have additional sales going... including our game!
Speed Dating for Ghosts is 50% off until November 1. When you take into account the added discount with the bundle, well... Halloween is basically Christmas this year.
Leon in particular is thrilled.
If you've already purchased our game, thank you so dang much! It's helping me keep the momentum going for future projects.
As additional thanks, Mikey and I are also cooking up a significant update to the game. More on that soon though.
Happy Dang Halloween!
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
Summer Sale's Home Stretch
Over the past two weeks, tons of new players have met our ghosts for the first time, and it's been so great to watch our fanbase continue to grow. We've seen cosplay. Fanart. A whole new round of streams for the summer.
Whether you picked up the game yesterday or all the way back at launch, thank you so much for your support. Every time someone buys this weird thing we made, or tells a friend about it, we get that much closer to being able to make the next weird thing (more on that soon).
To celebrate the end of the sale, Mikey drew a special Summer Fun Fran!
When Fran isn't running speed dating events, she plays softball in a ghost rec league. Her team's the Booston Ghastros. They beat the Graves last weekend, their first win this season!
Oh, and if you haven't picked up Speed Dating for Ghosts for yourself or a friend yet, run don't walk over to our store page before regular prices come back from the dead! Baseball and ghost puns!
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben
A Summer Fling That'll Haunt You
For the first time on Steam, Speed Dating for Ghosts is on sale. Take 40% off the game (51% if you buy the dang bundle with the soundtrack) for the duration of the 2018 Summer Sale.
Playing our weird little game helps us fund our next weird little game, so tell your friends. If you've got a big heart and deep pockets, heck, why not give 'em a gift?
Life is short! And sad. And so is our game!
👁 ❤ 👻,
Ben