1. How much are you making with your games?
2. Are you an Indie or do you write games for a company?
3. If you are a successful Indie, what's your advise for all us noobs?
1. How much are you making with your games?
2. Are you an Indie or do you write games for a company?
3. If you are a successful Indie, what's your advise for all us noobs?
More than $1000 but I am not a full time indie or a full time games programmer.
For me it varies, i'm a full time programmer and hobbyist game developer, i sometimes get paid to make games at work(We make all kinds of software). (Havn't made anything with my personal projects yet)
My advice: Keep things simple and aim at the niche markets, avoid competing against the big guys as much as possible.
More than $1000 but I am not a full time indie or a full time games programmer.
I don't think I thought through the poll very well.
My advice: Keep things simple and aim at the niche markets, avoid competing against the big guys as much as possible.
Excellent advice!
I try to do that when I can conjure the interest to do something unique. If I'm not interested, I won't write it. A weakness I know!
None of the above.
I code games, apps and plugins in several languages, however I have never sold any of them.
Nothing I do is marketable, so either the projects never get finished, get released as freeware, or never get released.
Last project I was working on was a web interface for MineCraft, that allowed players to pass game items back and forth.
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~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You forgot one option:
"I lost money" ;)
This was my first shot at a "real life" game:
...I hoped that this game would put my first foot on the gaming scene and participated to a contest with 5000$+ prizes where I hoped to get one, so I invested a bit.
There were the costs:
- 800$ commissioned art assets
- 50$ domain / servers / APIs
- 10$ for music (peanuts)
Earnings so far:
+ 2$
So, in total, I got a balance of "-858$", roughly and a game nobody likes. Yay!
1. How much are you making with your games?
2. Are you an Indie or do you write games for a company?
3. If you are a successful Indie, what's your advise for all us noobs?
1. I don't write games.
2. I don't write games.
3. I have no advice.
“If I understand the standard right it is legal and safe to do this but the resulting value could be anything.”