Dear friends,

Maestro! Jump in Music is now available for download on the web on various pirates pages all around the world.

What does that mean to us?

On the first hand, we’re happy that a lot of people who would never have played it actually get hands on… I have found a Brasilian Forum where players were expecting the game and are now playing and comparing scores, craving on the levels… and that’s nice to see.

This distribution thing is a total paradox! We are communicating on the game in all possible ways, youtube, twitter, facebook, traditional magazines, general newspapers… and the shop 100 meters from the studio didn’t even know the game was in their stock… what can we do?

We have spent 3 years making this game, fighting to actually get it out in the shops, invested the few dollars and dimes we have saved up, convinced our friends from Neko to jump in with us, had BigBen distribute the game over Europe… and all this for merely 3 weeks of commercial exposure.

A lot of people believe that when a NDS game is sold, the money goes to Nintendo and they already have enough money! but it isn’t true!!!

Nintendo didn’t invest a kopek in the game, and if it is not sold enough, it is Pastagames, Neko & Bigben who will pay the bill.

The consequences are simple, we are forced to keep making games for others, Baby games, teddy bear and pony games to survive, and we won’t be able to create new and original games for players to enjoy.

I’m not there to get you to cry, just to tell you to buy the game is you like it, if you want our little studio to keep making games we (and hopefully you) love

And if you aren’t so keen on buying a game you already have downloaded, remember that the money you’ll spend will be for our next game and not for Maestro. We are very excited to create it and to share it with you

Fabien, and all the Pastateam

Edit (11/26/2009) : In order to make it less boring, I added to the original post images of pirates taken from 3 different sites, and forgot to ask any authorization and/or add a link back to the original sites. That was plain stupid, I do apologize for that. I took the images away, and replaced it by one of our own.

Dear friends,

Maestro! Jump in Music for Nintendo DS is finally out!

It seems that the shops actually received the game on the 7th rather than on the 6th, and that the Chritsmas period arrivals overwhelming them, they are taking a bit more time to fill out the shops’ shelves with it.

You will find it in these shops:

• Game
• FNAC
• Casino
• Carrefour
• Boulanger

for those of you who are looking for it and not finding it in your local shop, you can always buy it online. For now, you can only find it there: FNAC.com, but there will soon be other online retailers.

Enjoy \o/

Dear friends,

It is done!

The game cards are printed, the booklet and cover are approved by Nintendo…

Once BigBen has put all these together in the boxes, the games will be sent in shops!

This brings us to November 6th! You’ll see pink birdies everywhere in your local shops. You can even start pre-ordering if you want ;p

For now, the game will be released in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland.

We’re trying to find distribution solutions for England and maybe Germany. We’ll keep you posted about that. And as soon as the game will be buyable online, we’ll give you a direct link on the Maestro online page.

Youhoooooo!!!