Comments on: Sales Statistics: Democracy

By: GameProducer.Net » Archive » $113,160.53 Indie Game Sales

GameProducer.Net » Archive » $113,160.53 Indie Game Sales — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:02:00 +0000

[...] He has previously shared Democracy sales stats and also sales information for his other games: Asteroid miner and Starship Tycoon. [...]

By: deluSion

deluSion — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:58:56 +0000

Thanks for the info. It’s very useful (never thought that game of this kind can get good sales)

By: GameDevMike - News, opinions, articles, tips & tricks on game development with an Indie twist. » Positech Sales Stats

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:56:07 +0000

[...] Positech Sales Stats By gdmike Back in February, Cliff Harris of Positech Games published the sales stats of his game Democracy (a fun game, by the way) at GameProducer.Net. Several months have gone by and Cliff has recently released a new game, Kudos. On top of that, he has released updated sales stats for Democracy along with two older Positech games, Asteroid Miner and Starship Tycoon. I knew that Democracy was doing well for him, but it’s interesting to see how well – 3,050 units moved in Direct sales over the past year. Congratulations, Cliff, and thanks for sharing the info. [...]

By: GameProducer.Net » Blog Archive » Interview with Positech Games Producer Cliff Harris: Kudos Game Production

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:37:48 +0000

[...] Cliff Harris has been working on companies such as Lionhead and Elixir and has found his own game development company Positech Games. Cliff has previously given us Democracy sales statistics and is now giving us some inside information regarding the production of his upcoming life simulation game Kudos. [...]

By: Indie Game Sales Statistics » Dark Moon Blog

Indie Game Sales Statistics » Dark Moon Blog — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:17:43 +0000

[...] Recently, GameProducer.net, a very interesting blog for game developers, started publishing sales statistics for several games, including Cactus Bruce and the Corporate Monkeys, Xmas Bonus and Democracy. [...]

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:50:14 +0000

Yeah the conversion rate is excellent. Even the amount of buy page views compared to download is amazing. What would be really cool is to see the number of downloads in the June to Jan so we can see what happened to the conversion rate.

By: Game Producer

Game Producer — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:24:05 +0000

@Andy: It’s properly used. Conversion rate = sales / downloads. 178 / 1300 = 0,1369 = 13,69%. It’s very high rate true, and I presume it has come down. You have to notice that it was the launch month – cliffski must have done a darn good job targeting his ads/promotion.

By: AndySchatz

AndySchatz — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:07:25 +0000

Are you sure you are using the term “conversion rate” correctly? It seems that the number is coming from buy page views divided by sales. That number should be “closue rate”, shouldn’t it? Conversion rate refers to how many people download the trial versus how many people buy it. 13 percent is insane for a small title, large titles like Fate (ones that are BIG downloads) tend to have higher conversion rates, but 13 percent would be high even for them.

By: Game Producer

Game Producer — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:25:21 +0000

He didn’t enclose that but I would guess:
- press releases
- shareware site submission
- banner ads

By: Istari

Istari — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:10:34 +0000

Here’s an interesting question: What is “other advertising”? Where did he advertise the games but Adwords?