This summer was prosperous for The Party, as Black The Fall was recognized by our international comrades as being one of the best indie games. We are yet to organize a parade  to celebrate the occasion in the genuine communist style. But in  the meantime, we'd like to take the time to hug every team member who's dedicated each day in the past months/years to this project: Cristi + Nico, Razvan + Licu, Andreea + Marius and Andrei+. And also thank all the organizations who recognized our creative efforts by nominating or awarding us: BIG Festival, Gamescom, Spawn and BIC Festival.

The Party feels awkwardly humble, grateful, hopeful and proud at the same time. And here is a token of appreciation (souvenir from BIC Festival) to always remind us of these mixed feelings.

Thank YOU for playing!

Just as anticipated, Gamescom 2016 was like a homecoming, but on a huge level. In 2015 we had one impressive independent booth, showcasing Black The Fall for the first time to a large audience. One year later, we joined the party with our friends, showcasing within:

• the Indie Arena booth , next to the lovely team developing FAR. We were actually both nominated for Best Indie Award at Gamescom 2016. Yaaay!
  
• the Square Enix Collective booth, next to the Oh-My-God-Fun Titutitech guys.
• the RGDA booth with our brothers in arms at Scorpius and Angry Mob Games.

Needless to mention the madness of settings things up to every detail, which would have been unbearable without the help of the booth organizers to whom we can't stop thanking... Thank you! See? Can't stop it.

On top of this, is the player connection. From 12 yo to 50+ yo, there were roughly 1200+ players who simply loved the puzzles and enjoyed the atmosphere. We were quite used to having friends or couples come and play together, taking turns in handling the controller and untangling together the dark puzzles. But what we absolutely loved witnessing, was parents playing alongside their kids. Mom and Dad, would pay attention to every new scene and they'd subtly guide the young adventurers when they'd get stuck.

As with every event, we gathered the valuable player feedback and we're working on implementing it, during our last polishing stage. All men must work, as The Party says.

The fun wouldn't have been complete without a raffle, so here are the ten winners of a Black The Fall Steam key (for Windows), which gives access to a demo, but once we launch the game, it will upgrade to the full version.

Finally, if we missed you in Germany, see you in the following weeks at BIC Festival in Busan and at Tokyo Game Show in Chiba?