dustinh
02-17-2005, 02:39 PM
Hi,
Just thought I'd introduce myself and say, this is probably the best game developer forum I've ever come across. I'm pleasantly surprised by the wealth of knowledge and maturity shown here by the posters. I can honestly say there's not a forum I've found in all my years that compares.
That being said, I'm working with a group that has designed some mobile games, the two I created didn't do well due to my bad judgment of producing them on a dying format (Mophun). However, another I'm working with has had some sucess in the mobile market. Now we're thinking about jumping into the PC and web game market a bit. I'll admit I've just begun studying this the past few days. But it looks like most sales come from websites, as well as portal sites which naturally take a percentage of the sales.
My question is... of the portals you've worked with, which have you profited the most from and have had good experience working with? What level of quality is expected from them? With Mophun the developer community was pretty good, but Mophun itself was a horrible portal, frequently late with payments (I've yet to receive one still, and it's been over a year), broken promises, slow updates to the game database, horrible marketing. I was curious to know if Realarcade and other big portal sites are better to work with? From what I've read and seen other than the big (and understandable) cut, things seem to flow well. But do you as developers see sales?
And naturally I"m going to be trying out some games over the next few weeks to get a better feel of the market, what are some of you folks favorite games? (No cheating and saying your own!) ;)
Thanks for taking the time to read my message! :)
- Dustin Hubbard
www.spookytornado.com
Just thought I'd introduce myself and say, this is probably the best game developer forum I've ever come across. I'm pleasantly surprised by the wealth of knowledge and maturity shown here by the posters. I can honestly say there's not a forum I've found in all my years that compares.
That being said, I'm working with a group that has designed some mobile games, the two I created didn't do well due to my bad judgment of producing them on a dying format (Mophun). However, another I'm working with has had some sucess in the mobile market. Now we're thinking about jumping into the PC and web game market a bit. I'll admit I've just begun studying this the past few days. But it looks like most sales come from websites, as well as portal sites which naturally take a percentage of the sales.
My question is... of the portals you've worked with, which have you profited the most from and have had good experience working with? What level of quality is expected from them? With Mophun the developer community was pretty good, but Mophun itself was a horrible portal, frequently late with payments (I've yet to receive one still, and it's been over a year), broken promises, slow updates to the game database, horrible marketing. I was curious to know if Realarcade and other big portal sites are better to work with? From what I've read and seen other than the big (and understandable) cut, things seem to flow well. But do you as developers see sales?
And naturally I"m going to be trying out some games over the next few weeks to get a better feel of the market, what are some of you folks favorite games? (No cheating and saying your own!) ;)
Thanks for taking the time to read my message! :)
- Dustin Hubbard
www.spookytornado.com