Universal Gaming Reviews took a look at Salvation Prophecy. It’s a well-balanced and thorough review I thought I’d like to share with everyone.

The review sums things up as follows:

Overall, Salvation Prophecy is great fun and an addicting experience, it’s one of those games that you may not have ever heard of but is one that should definitely be in your playlist.

The Verdict: 8 Great

The Good:

Excellent combination of Space and Land Battles

Very addicting gameplay that will have you playing for hours.

4 Unique races to play as.

Lots to unlock and discover

Variety of weapon upgrades

3 types of main weapons, melee, long range and destruction.

Unique worlds to explore and do battle on.

Easy to learn how to play and get into.

Battles are quick and fun making it a great jump in, jump out game to take a break in.

Was created with only one full time developer on a limited budged, which is quite impressive.

The Bad:

The textures aren’t the best looking (This doesn’t make the game any less addicting however)

Space battles can be a bit tedius after a while with it’s requirement to fly there and back.

The long awaited – at least to me – linux port is live! I want to thank all the kind linux users who helped test the game. You guys are awesome.

Linux comes in a lot of flavors – different distros, 32-bit vs. 64-bit, NVidia drivers, AMD drivers, single- vs. multi-monitors. I’ve done my best to test in a wide variety of combinations. I bought new video cards, a new monitor, and installed a bunch of different distros to test many different combinations.

Right now, I’m only officially supporting NVidia and AMD cards with proprietary drivers. Although one user did have some luck with an integrated video card. I might be able to get the open source drivers working too, but so far there’s still some issues there to work through.

Salvation Prophecy was built using a lot of open source software (Ogre3D, CEGUI, OIS). Here’s my small effort at contributing back to gaming on the best open source operating system of all time. The first moment I got the game running on linux was one of the most magical moments of making Salvation Prophecy.

The linux version can be bought on Desura and hopefully someday Steam (please vote!)

KrazyKain from Underdog Reviews has been kind enough to have a look at Salvation Prophecy.

Direct youtube link

This is my favorite quote from the review (when discussing the ship controls): “It lets you focus on what’s important – blowing shit up.”
Nice.

And if you want to hear me and KrazyKain chatting about the game, here’s the interview:

Direct youtube link

Salvation Prophecy has been translated to Russian! Text only, not voices, but still… awesome. I worked with bitComposer Russia as a publisher for this, and they provided the translations.

I needed to playtest the game a lot, to make sure everything was translated and the translations fit. Russian text tends to be longer than English. It was weird playtesting my game in a language I don’t understand. If I’m ever in Russia, I’ll see if any of it sunk in. Maybe I’ll be conversational about space ships, aliens, and killer robots.

Here’s the links to some of the Russian distributors:

• Russian online store 1
• Russian online store 2
• Russian online store 3

bitComposer Russia are also planning a Russian retail release.

Yep! Amazon is selling my game. Cool that Amazon is paying attention to us indies. I read somewhere that Amazon is one of the major digital distribution players behind Steam these days, so it might help the game reach a wider audience. I’m definitely cool with that.

Here’s the link:
Buy Salvation Prophecy on Amazon.

In case anyone wants to leave a glowing user review of Salvation Prophecy at Amazon, I wouldn’t complain.

Got a batch of excellent questions from Indie Game HQ. You can check out the interview here. It’s a really solid site with great coverage of indie games.

Sometimes when I read back the interviews I give, I think “Man, I talk way too much.”

If you’re reading this site, you probably know what Steam is. And you probably know that if you made an indie PC game, you really want to sell your game through Steam.