I'm not sure how popular GDN is, or how well promoted the news item is... but you would expect more competition than that. I wouldn't say no to any free WiiWare title ;)

As for everyone having the game... having the sales figures here, I doubt it - although its possible a lot of the WiiWare fans that use those sites may have it.

about the games sells (i know you can't give numbers or anything like that), but how is it selling? better than expected? worse? does it look like you'll make your investment back/turn a profit?

sorry for being so prodding, but i'd just like to know.

Alexa ranks it as 59,396, compared to 3,477 for vgchartz.com in the US. (and IGN is ranked as 107 in the US).

The second I make any official comment on sales, it will be reported through all the web ;)

I'm really keen on it getting out in Europe, and seeing how that compares to US sales - will be really interesting.

i see your learning nintendo's art of gracefully dodging questions :b

I could make some 'vague' statement, but would that clear anything up?

When we started, we really had *no* of what sales to expect from WiiWare - I never had access to any real sales figures, except those for the "best sellers". I think I can safely say, the Flowerworks is not selling as strongly as those best sellers (its on none of the top-seller charts, etc).

Now... I have figures for Flowerworks US, over a couple of months. Its not much, but its something to compare things against. So once FW Euro gets out - I'll be able to make a real comparison statement. We have some realistic sales targets for FW Euro... and hopefully we'll make those.

One of the Flowerworks reviews I have been waiting ages for has finally hit (the target site had technical difficulties, and the reviewer wanted to play all the way through before writing his review):

28/30 - http://www.wiiloveit.com/games/flowerworks---wiiware-review

Needless to say, I'm pretty happy with that review - I don't think anything I ever worked on before got a score of 93%!

When is the PAL release coming, Shams?

I just got the USK rating for the game - the OFLC (Oz) & PEGI will take longer (weeks). Once I have them, I can complete the e-manuals and send them off for submission - then send the updated game off as well.

Best case would be hitting WiiWare start of May - more realistically, I think the start of June. Fingers crossed!

have you decided what changes your making to the euro game yet?