FrasierWCrane: There will be a documentary for Kickstarter backers later on, I don't know if it will be available for others as well.
During there Twitch stream yesterday the also discussed that they maybe will release some of the outtakes but they don't know anything specific right now - they really concentrated on bringing the game out up to today, nothing else.

Phasmid: Holy moly, 15 GB! That's near four times my download cap, and for an indie game.

No, it isn't, as a rather important step has been left out. You also have to run the game at least once with the client installed to finalise the installation, a step that is noted both in the preorder thread, in the DRM free games on steam thread as being essential in general; and indeed in this very thread. That, most definitely, is not the action of a mere download manager as some claim, and most definitively constitutes DRM. If you don't run it without the steam client that first time it will not work. Of course, for a GOG version or a DRM free disk version that step isn't necessary any more than installing extraneous software of any kind is, so it's by no means an inherent factor in installations in general- it's a deliberate behaviour.

Imagine, if you will, that instead of it being called the steam client it was called the securom or tages client and it required you to download via it and run the game at least once with it. Would such behaviour then be regarded as DRM free? Nope, the squeals of outrage would deafen half the planet. Sheesh, Securom launch control which literally checks only the install date, on install, vs release date is (rightly) considered DRM, and its behaviour is far more benign, DRM wise.

People like steam and don't want it to be drm because drm is bad while steam is good, so they'll do anything to avoid that logic disjunction.

Phasmid: People like steam and don't want it to be drm because drm is bad while steam is good, so they'll do anything to avoid that logic disjunction.

Crosmando: Goddammit, I wanted to be positive about this release, it's probably a great and worthy Tex game, but why can't I get a GOG code? I backed the Kickstarter for fuck's sake, without my pledge and that of all the thousands of other backers this game wouldn't have even got made, and they cannot do the tiny thing of giving me a code on the distribution platform I prefer? You know, this is third Kickstarter I've backed so far (Volgarr the Viking and Consortium first) in which the game has released on GOG but they refuse to give me a key there, I am sensing a acute sense of betrayal. I'm pretty sure the reason Volgarr didn't give out GOG keys was some kind of last-minute dickery with a publisher they used to get on distribution platforms. Is that the case here too?

StingingVelvet: Yup.

tfishell: Then I assume the vast majority of games are technically DRM-free on Steam? I wonder how GOG would be doing if "word got out" that Steam isn't technically DRM. (I tend to think it's the exclusives here that have helped GOG out the most.)

EDIT: Eh, might not be worth discussing. In any case, backers who want GOG codes might contact Big Finish.

lebowitz: All the Tex Murphy games (the FMV ones, at least) have a hint system. If you get stuck, you can easily get help getting pointed in the right direction. This was especially useful in the days before the internet and gamefaqs.

tfishell: EDIT: Eh, might not be worth discussing. In any case, backers who want GOG codes might contact Big Finish.

cyboff: and as usual - for those who pre-ordered it here and see game shelf with no installer in it - refresh your account by clicking here: https://secure.gog.com/account/refresh

Phasmid: People like steam and don't want it to be drm because drm is bad while steam is good, so they'll do anything to avoid that logic disjunction.