Comments on: “Spotify For Games”

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:41:00 +0000

@Ronin: good ideas! and glad to hear you’d be interested in joining too ;)

@Robert: as a paying customer… or developer ;) (or both? :D)

Wrote another blog post. Discussion continues here: http://www.gameproducer.net/2010/07/30/spotify-for-indie-games-part-2-out-of-n/

By: Robert Dowling

Robert Dowling — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:20:26 +0000

I’d sign up.

By: mikeful

mikeful — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:10:28 +0000

This reminds me of streaming system of Guild Wars.

You can download small package (~30MB when I first tried it) containing first few areas of game, models of basic gear and tutorial.

As you play the game downloads rest of the game without taking all of your bandwidth. The system prioritizes downloading possible next areas and models you might encounter and it works pretty well.

“Sportify” model could provide more similar opportunities on technical side.

By: Ronin

Ronin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:02:28 +0000

I like the Spotify business model, even though I think Spotify still need a lot of refining.
At the moment an artist that gets played on Spotify earn $0.00043 per playing (Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/)…
They ARE getting bigger companies to buy ads from them and such these days though, so there’s still hope that Spotify might become what it should be.

Now for an indie developer, I can see several benefits of such a portal/app. And even earning $0.00043 per playing is better than nothing when you’re indie.
The subscription model is taking over the world, so why not go that way with indie too? ;)

Maybe add some possibility to give some direct support to your favorite developer too, like donating, buy the game for download, micromanagement, etc.

I love the idea, and would most certainly join a team to make this happen ;)

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:28:46 +0000

In France, there is the website metaboli.fr

For 10 Euro per month, you’ve hundred of games like Avatar, Batman Arkham Asylum, STALKER, etc. But it’s not really indie games ^^

By: laurent

laurent — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:53:29 +0000

Pogo.com has a similar model with a very small stable of high quality online games and crappier ones to try and entice you to be a subscriber. Works well for EA.

By: laurent

laurent — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:53:28 +0000

Pogo.com has a similar model with a very small stable of high quality online games and crappier ones to try and entice you to be a subscriber. Works well for EA.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:31 +0000

Unlike the other mentioned sites, this seems to be directed towards indie games, which would be a boon to small developers everywhere. Barring certain qualifications, this has the makings of the next big game portal type.

Sorta iphone Appstore/android marketplace like with a wider reach.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:40:54 +0000

Onlive is supposed to do this, but it’s US only I believe (right?)

how about “spotify for indie games” :) (or “casual games” for that matter)

By: Jelani Harris

Jelani Harris — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:33:03 +0000

I’m pretty sure what you’re describing is what GameTap was meant to do.