Comments on: Is There Money To Be Made?

By: Roop Sharma

Roop Sharma — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:26:49 +0000

http://www.gamedevelopersummit.com

By: Roop Sharma

Roop Sharma — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:23:57 +0000

Saltmarch Media is organizing India Game Developer Summit Event in Bangalore. This Summit will be a boost for the Game Developing Industries. It covers the topics like Online Gaming, Gaming Business, Gaming Career, Making Money in Gaming, Audio in Gaming, Mobile Gaming and Adobe Flash Platform and has 1 day workshop at the end as well. Any one attending this event?

By: Luke Mildenhall-Ward

Luke Mildenhall-Ward — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:16:57 +0000

I’m a bit late to the party but I thought I’d make an observation regarding your comments on fan-investment in a game. Your biggest issue was investors getting back any of their investment, however (and maybe this has been said before,) as this is the game industry and assumedly the investors will be gamers, can’t their return on investment be a copy of the game on release day?

This is attractive to fans, as they can feel they’re supporting their favorite developer, and also contributing to a game idea that they really like. In return, the developer could bestow investors gold access to a website with development updates on the game, allowing investors to share ideas and become excited on the forums. And ultimately the investors will see their investment back in the form of a pre-release copy of the game.

This will be even more attractive to developers. You you can simplify things by setting the investment rate at the cost of a copy of the game, you don’t need to pay back any profits to the investors, or even any of their original investment money. It could essentially be pre-ordering a game.

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By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:08:52 +0000

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By: Koen Witters

Koen Witters — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:26:34 +0000

You should also check out my article on how much money your first game can make. It also hints on how to survive as an indie game developer, but it takes a lot of time and dedication.

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By: fishermen21

fishermen21 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:38:48 +0000

@Ron Yes, the article mentions a lot of the problems we faith. A few months ago, we had the problem, that out team and the company where nearly breaking up, because we lost our focus entirely. However, we talked about it, changed the team structure, because we need some sort of funding. No one in the team currently has the ability to fund a complete game development and we have no name in the cumminty, nor references, we can build on.
The worst thing while doing contract work is, that we are not able to present us, because the contracts forbid us to reference done projects.
However, I think, we are now on our way and we will eventually start working on our first own title in the next weeks, using all the money we got through contract work.