My ahem first post on this topic,so first of all, congratulations to the Out of site game for announcing the release date of AHC,and can I say I was right? I did think the game would come around or at the end of dec,and here we have the release date announcement .

As for the quote above, I know that people are excited and looking very much forward to the game,and have been asking questions like,could we increase or decrease the music or bg sounds,what would be the size of the game (really?),but this one tops them all

43 days to go,so see you all on the other side.
Grryf

@Naruto #152: The game is a digital download, not a physical product, so I'm not sure how you would lose a copy. If you receive a copy and still want to support us, you could simply donate—or, you could pay it forward and gift a copy to someone else.

@hadi.gsf #154: Sorry, that was an oversight on my part...honestly, considering how long the other topic about AHC has been up, I figured anyone who had any interest in it would have already had a frame of reference, so I didn't think it was important to post a second copy of the game description here. Lesson learned, though—when the game releases and we post our official release thread, I'll be sure to include the game description and other relevant details.

Hi,
Even though  I have added soundtracks on Apple music(hoping you guys get some revenue out of it) I have gone out of my way to not listen to them, why you ask?
I prefer to experience everything in a game the first time I play it,and soundtrack from how they are to where they play in a game is a major part of it for me that is to say,the game content along with the soundtrack would be far more fun for the first time I here than one before and the other together later on.
I know, I am wierd
Grryf

My inner self's reaction to discovering this thread and the release date announcement: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Excitement doesn't even begin to describe my feelings. I do hope you can reinstall on another computer, because I'm not sure how long this one will last me. The sounds it keeps making still concern me even though nothing else seems to be going wrong with it...

Yeah really. The hard drive on my last laptop died after I'd only had it a year. But then my mother had it for two or three years before I took it over. As for the game I wonder if it'll be an online registration system like Entombed? Then if you got a new machine all you had to do would be log in and it would find your registration info automatically. Of course that could be a problem if for whatever reason you didn't have convenient internet access.

I also hope that it works across multiple machines, one copy for laptop, one for desktop.

Not necessarily. Sometimes you can't afford internet access or what you have might not be reliable enough to chance trying to download a game. What if you fall on hard times and have to cut net access to save money? So no, Nuno, my comment still has relevance. I know plenty of people who for one reason or another either don't have or have very limited internet access at home, so they might have trouble either downloading or registering a game that had an online component. This may not be 1980 but getting a computer does not automatically mean having internet access. But I agree about finding a registration option for AHC that's both convenient for users and reasonably secure.

BryanP—the distribution method of the game is going to be digital download. So, it is a given that internet access will be required to at least purchase the game. You make a good point about sometimes having to cut internet access, though. Those are the sorts of things we're trying to sort out. I'm not directly involved in the discussions about DRM but I know those are all things that have been taken into consideration. For example, we want users to have the freedom to install on a different machine if they get a new computer or have a desktop and a laptop—but we also don't want users to be able to simply share their copy with anyone and everyone and have dozens of different people using the same registration. It's a tough balance.

@Connor #166: The initial release will not be on Steam, nor can we guarantee a Steam release. We are definitely hoping and planning to release on Steam once the graphics are implemented but as I've said before, that is ultimately out of our hands, since games have to go through an approval process to be included on Steam. Currently that process is a Steam Greenlight campaign, though I understand Steam is planning to change this and make it a simple submission fee. All of that is to say, we can't promise an eventual Steam release because it's not 100% in our power to guarantee, but either way, the December 29 release will definitely NOT include a Steam release.

I was actually referring more to the registration system itself since you can always back up the download file. Of course backing up the registration information itself is never a bad idea whenever possible. I know I for one plan to back up the game itself and, if applicable, the registration info. But of course that's going to depend on what the game's registration system turns out to be. I certainly don't want to see the game pirated if that can be at all avoided without unduely inconveniencing legitimate players. The trouble of course is that no registration system is completely proof against hackers.

Mine does have the CD drive. But if you don't have reliable internet access you can't very well register a game if the registration is online.

Oh, very much agree with the post above. When the graphics do come out, I'm gonna have my wife describe things to me. This will be totally awesome!!!