My iPhone Story/Success - Bar Star

Wes · 2010-06-22T06:11:17

This message is a shout out to the gamedev community for your help over the years (particularly Yann L and Sneftel; its always been enlightening reading your posts to my threads or others). I've been reading GD since univiersity over the last 8 years. Last year i felt i needed/HAD to quit my day job (for another gaming company) and do something much more creative. Creatively, I felt like a game dev with ED and it was driving me crazy. It was tough because i needed to satisfy my creative urges. my only plan/desire was to make a great, unique and fresh game that had mass appeal. I rallied some guys to help me (on rev share) and together we set out to make BarStar. We worked out of Starbucks day after day. They all thought we were crazy spending so much time there so we cycled starbucks :) we snuck onto university campus for meeting space. I reduced my spending during the development (i put myself on 3 zero dollar days a week). All this before getting some financing and small office space (the guys that financed us really believed in our game)!After 4 different iterations on how the game worked. We launched Bar Star last week: Bar StarAnd so far we are doing really, really well! Apple gave us great deck placement.We are a top strategy game in many countries, top action game, and a top paid app as well:Screen grab from HK itunes (Strategy page):#1 strategy (hk)We are getting very great reviews.Its too early to tell how well the game will do in the long hall but so far this is beyond what i had hoped for! even though i dont use GD much any more, it was instrumental in my up training in industry! In a city with very few game developers I had no one to get answers from. thanks GD Community for equipping me with the ability to succeed!! Wes Tam

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Started by _walrus June 20, 2010 06:54 PM

10 comments, last by ChurchSkiz 14 years, 4 months ago

Demosthenes

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June 22, 2010 06:03 AM

Congratulations! :)

ChurchSkiz

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June 22, 2010 06:11 AM

Quote: Original post by _walrus
Quote: Original post by way2lazy2care
congrats on your popularity. Would you mind updating on monetary success after a few weeks? Always curious how well it correlates.

I'll loop back in a few weeks and see what i can say for numbers

Contact gameproducer.net . They do post-mortems on sales statistics. It's really insightful for the rest of us to see how well these projects do. You've also got a good development story so it would make a good write-up.

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