Comments on: Here’s One Reason Why People Buy Indie Games (Part 2)

By: alphadogg

alphadogg — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:33:49 +0000

I don’t think selling a game is harder than making one. I think it’s harder for indies because they’d rather be building the next game. It’s subjectively harder to indies because the passion for the activity isn’t there, and many avoid it and their games go nowhere.

That’s why 70% of the take is ridiculous. At best, it should be 50/50, with a little more going to the dev because they are the primary reason the relationship exists.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:21:26 +0000

Yeh, the anticipation factor is amazing.

I’ve *never* got this much great feedback and support for my game. Sure, the demos so far have been just that – demos, but players have been really positive about it and when I’ve told stories about “how the dog started to run away” I’ve got people to email me “hey, that dog acts like dog mine!”. I’ve got into PC Gamer (which I think was awesome, taken into account I did pretty much zero work for this – and the game is still under development)… but one of the best was happening when I got somebody else mention Dead Wake in playing Zombie Master mod (he didn’t realize I was the developer).

Now there’s already pretty good list of people who want to hear about the game… so things look very positive.

By: Sebastien Larocque

Sebastien Larocque — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:01:26 +0000

It almost looks like a marketing recipe. I like your approach. The anticipation factor is very important. It helps to connect with the consumers and the people that will talk about your game like the review gaming sites.