Selling Games Online
There is another post (as I'm looking at the board, it's right below this one - but they get reorganized whenever someone adds something). Its title is "I created Games. Help me to publish" and its author is "rags9games." The reason I mention that other post is that it asked essentially the same question you have asked in this one.
But anyway, maybe this article will offer you some useful ideas:
http://www.sloperama.com/advice/article60.htm
Good luck to you! The easy and fun part is behind you.
-- Tom Sloper -- sloperama.com
Trymedia's generally been smooth as butter to use; good and updated reports, really nice user experience (they do all their buying and registering from inside the application, with no need to receive the key via email or similar), and very friendly pipeline to build the package in.
Now, of course, you need to get people to download it, and get the news out there.. And that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
Allan
Thanks.
Here's mine. Works quite nicely.
http://www.thecodezone.com/buy.php
(my byline from the Gamedev Collection series, which I co-edited) John Hattan has been working steadily in the casual game-space since the TRS-80 days and professionally since 1990. After seeing his small-format games turned down for what turned out to be Tandy's last PC release, he took them independent, eventually releasing them as several discount game-packs through a couple of publishers. The packs are actually still available on store-shelves, although you'll need a keen eye to find them nowadays. He continues to work in the casual game-space as an independent developer, largely working on games in Flash for his website, The Code Zone (www.thecodezone.com). His current scheme is to distribute his games virally on various web-portals and widget platforms. In addition, John writes weekly product reviews and blogs (over ten years old) for www.gamedev.net from his home office where he lives with his wife and daughter in their home in the woods near Lake Grapevine in Texas.
Quote: Original post by billmason
This is great advice. I learned a lot from it. Now I have a few questions for __ODIN__. I looked at your website and Cleopatra game. It is wonderful, that is what I want my site to look like. I was wondering how many visitors and sales you get a month. Do you have a team working with you or are you doing it all yourself?
Nothing to get fat off; we get most our sales of the portals, like most similar companies. Boomzap's actually 3 different development teams grouped under a single company; the website's the long-suffering step-child of the three :)
Allan
link to my thread
[Edited by - ajackson713 on January 23, 2008 2:41:13 AM]
