Other News: Auditorium on Steam & Auditorium 2 Kickstarter Live

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Hey, everyone!

Thought I'd drop this one in here for anyone interested that may not have already heard. Yesterday saw the release of Auditorium on Steam and the launch of our Kickstarter for the sequel, Auditorium 2: Duet! That's right! We're fixing to make a sequel to Auditorium. But like the first, we won't be able to do it without your support. Instead of PayPal donations though, this time around we've turned to Kickstarter to help cover part of the cost of development. Auditorium 2: Duet is going to be bigger, better, and -- most importantly -- it's going to be multiplayer. The game will also have a single player mode, but the true spirit of the game will be multiplayer. Auditorium 2: Duet will also be the first of our games to support Steam features from the get go.

Watch the Auditorium 2: Duet Kickstarter video, let us know what you think, and help us out if you can. An amount is much appreciated and will go a long way in helping us during the development process. For more in-depth, behind the scenes coverage of us and our Kickstarter project, be sure to read these exclusive features by Joystiq:

• Auditorium devs look to Kickstarter for sequel funding
• Auditorium 2: Duet multiplayer wants you to make sweet harmonies with that special someone
• The price of independence: What it really costs to be an indie developer
• How one indie studio burns $15K per month (or: this graph looks like Pac-Man)
• Auditorium 2: Duet raises the full $60,000 through Kickstarter

We brought Auditorium to Steam by popular demand. It's the same as what you would get with the paid web version without having to go through the browser. The Steam version of Auditorium also uses a level selection overlay menu similar to Auditorium HD that the web version doesn't have. But this is as far as we plan to go with the original Auditorium. Our future development work is focused on the sequel, Auditorium 2: Duet. We'll be developing Auditorium 2: Duet in Unity instead of Flash, and the game will be designed from the very beginning to support Steam features such as cloud support, leaderboards, and achievements.