Well this should hopefully inject some life into the SiD controller situation I mentioned in our latest podcast. Jason Rohrer is offering his experimental co-op adventure game Sleep is Death for whatever you’d like to pay, as long as it meets the minimum of $1.75 for bandwidth and payment processing costs.

While this is a great offer and should be jumped on by any and all interested in trying out the effort (if you’re someone who gets into the game you’ll see how much more it’s worth then whatever you ended up paying), you can’t help but wonder if it comes a little early. Some early purchasers have expressed feelings that the sale cheapens the full price purchase they made for the game previous to or shortly after its release just around a month ago.

The reasoning that is being offered up for the sale is simply Rohrer is pleased with the sales the game has already made. As of April 30, The game has sold approx. 4,000 copies, with 2,600 being $9 preorders and the other 1,400 priced at $14 apiece, bringing in $43,000 thus far for the developer, which Rohrer receives 100% of. Another reason I’d like to hope is the aforementioned injection this gives the community of players, specifically on the Sleep is Death matchmaking and more site SidTube, which was sputtering at just a couple of games a day according to its counter earlier this week; as of right now some 120 games have been played in the last 24 hours. Much better.

No end date has been mentioned for the sale.