In this episode, we delve into the world of collectors’ editions in the games industry and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly, how we would design our own collector’s editions, and much, much more!

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Chapters

00:00 Episode Intro

00:33 Episode Starts

05:34 Rune’s Experience and Dreams of Collector’s Editions

12:52 Collector’s Editions Gone Wrong

13:36 Grand Theft Auto IV: Collector’s Edition

14:43 Fallout 4 & Fallout 76

30:38 Are Preorders Harmful to the Games Industry?

50:18 Sunset Moon and Prototyping

55:47 Episode Outro

Your Hosts and Their Games

• Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam! — ⁠https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/⁠
• Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch! — ⁠https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh⁠
• Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam! — ⁠https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/⁠
• Buy KnifeBoy on Switch! — ⁠https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/⁠
• Buy KnifeBoy on Steam! — ⁠https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/⁠
• Play Midnight Nano on itch.io! — ⁠https://sfwstudios.itch.io/midnight-nano⁠
• Read Otto’s blog about game development! — ⁠https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01⁠
• Join the Discord server for Game Hub Umeå! — ⁠https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP⁠

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: ⁠https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-70-collectors-edition-60b312ba60b8