I was surprised to see such a quick followup to Owen’s original post at Streaming Colour Studios regarding his brutally honest sales numbers and figures and the reaction that followed. The guy got hammered pretty hard not only by Slashdot, but it seems a good majority of the blogging and geek world.
This guy got a lot of attention for his brutally honest blog post about making a game on the iPhone. He got a real big lesson in the business of games.
Spent the better part of the night porting the data and code over from C into something a little more manageable in Python for Star Merchant 2. Everything appears to be progressing nicely so far. The commerce aspects of the new game are a little different now, which I will explain.
I’m taking advantage of the next week to break away from writing nonstop and concentrating more fully on Star Merchant 2. It’s been a long time coming, and with a lot of the delays caused by other matters of life, it finally looks like I have a break in the storm.
In going through my bookmarks in a vain effort to organize them, I came upon my Games sub-folder and decided to put a few of on here for anyone interested.
The big debate though is traditional media vs. downloads-only. Why not offer ISOs of the discs or an optional “Buy the CD/DVD” for a few bucks on-demand? It’s true that your average user wouldn’t know an ISO image from a Word document, but most gamers are a little bit above average at least.
Hard to believe I started this blog almost 2 years ago and have only made 70 posts, with this one being the 70th. It’s not a nice, round number like 100 that rolls off the tongue, but I’ll take it.
There has been a general fear as of late that PC gaming is dying a slow and painful death to…
I’ve always been a big supporter of independent games. After all, one could consider my own lowly self to be a one-man indie game developer.
