Comments on: Sales Statistics: OceanDive – Screensaver And Exploration Game Reaches Over $60000 Sales

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:29:39 +0000

great information, very thorough inc. the stuff on marketing. Thanks to all involved for making this public.

By: Mark Bishop

Mark Bishop — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:51:25 +0000

Thanks for sharing these sales statistics ^_^ (although I was initially confused that it took sales of ~$60k before the project broke even – “we did manage to break even [...] by now” – until I saw that the project had a full-time team of four.)

By: Roman Budzowski

Roman Budzowski — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:04:04 +0000

Well, congrats to the authors. Anyway, I did not expect that making a screensaver can take 16+ man-months.

By: IoryaDragon

IoryaDragon — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:03:58 +0000

Great job guys! I am so happy when i see indie devs achieving this sales, good job and keep up the good work, making nice games.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:48:56 +0000

@Eric: No problem (from my part), and again: big thanks for Pavel for letting gameproducer.net show these numbers.

@Paolo: 4000 / 280,000 = 0.14 so yes, 1.4% is correct.

Edit: oh, and sorry about messing up the date & link. I’ve done press release for this announcement, and due a small error in timing the pr this story got out yesterday even though it should have been published today. Anyway, the pr showed different link – and now this post has been timed for today thus changing the URL to match the press release URL. If you didn’t notice anything, then forget what I just said :)

By: Paolo Taje

Paolo Taje — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:05:07 +0000

So, conversion rate is 1,4%… Am I right?

By: Eric Fortier

Eric Fortier — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:32:44 +0000

Wow, all these sale stats are really inspiring. Thanks a lot for posting them and to everyone willing to share these infos!

I’m downloading this screensaver/game right now!