Your best game?

[SixFootEwok]

This is just a post of sheer curiousity, and might be getting a little personal, but here goes: What was the best game you ever made? How much did you make off of it? How many customers did it bring?
The more stories, the better.

Note: I'm not gauging anyone's experience on my own, or setting any expectations based on everyone's input. It's just nice to see some good success (or failure) stories.

- Jonathan

[ManuelFLara]

I'd say my best and only one game is The Cursed Wheel (http://www.funmangames.com). I've sold 40 copies through my site since April and some more through portals, but considering how much I spent, I've lost lots of money. On the other hand, it was just a test, something I had to do in order to prove myself I could release something and make money from it, so I accomplished my objective with it.

[Nexic]

Well my best selling game so far is Desperate Space, so far sold about 20 copies from my own site after a month, but including all portal and affiliate sales the total is just above the 100 mark. Though as its still hasn't been released on a couple of large sites yet and it's only been selling on the others for about a week I expect to make a lot more in the next couple of months.

So far my greatest total $ earning game is Xeno Assault II, but Desperate Space will almost certainly outsell it after it's been selling for the same amount of time. For Xeno Assault II I made a bit less than $10k after it's been selling for about 9 months. Overall Xeno Assault II sold around 500 copies.

I hope the quenched your thirst for sales data for a while :)

[joe]

We have only released two games until now. Psychoballs and Absolute Blue but I don't want to consider which one is better because they are completly different.

Psychoballs is a logic/puzzle game while Absolute Blue is a classical horizontal-shooter.

Absolute Blue was a lot more work to finish it than Psychoballs and was probably harder to finish because we often changed things in the game that caused me to rewrite big parts of the code again and again.

Altough Psychoballs was released a half year before Absolute Blue we sold it already as often as Psychoballs (without portals and retail version).

[ggambett]

I'd say our best game by far is Wild West Wendy (http://www.mysterystudio.com/wildwestwendy.php). I'm really proud of it. It's not our best seller, though :(

[princec]

Ultratron! Shifted a couple of hundred copies. Barely made a bean though because I sell it so cheap.

Cas :)

[stanchat]

My best selling games to date are Ringer King 3D (http://www.grab.com/games/screenshots.php?game=1337) and its predecessor Ringer King 3.1 for windows. Combined we get 25-30 sales a month from these games. As far as I know we have the only Horseshoe simulation games available and it creates quite a little niche for us. Most of the downloads and sales come from Southern US states where horseshoes is real popular. This was first released in 1994 and then we started working on the 3D version uisng the old (freeware Genesis 3d engine) in 1997 and finally released it in 2003.

[Sharpfish]

hmm.. well I would have to say "Eyeborg" on the Amiga (1993) under the name of scrambled thought software (as I once was). I say this because it is the only game I have received money for. However it was a one off payment (£100 IIRC) as it was licenceware.. which died on it's arse not long after that. My other "simple" games went into the amiga public domain, but along with Eyeborg are all officially disowned by me now (I was young and I knew basic - give me a break ;) )

Next to that I would have to say my CURRENT lead project is my best game, because it is the one out of my vast array of non-finished "prototypes" that is shaping up to be a finished product hopefully within the next 8-12 weeks.

I'll come back to this thread next year and answer it properly ;)

[mahlzeit]

Hey, I once got paid £100 for a game too. It was Zero Gravity, a simple Amiga game that won that month's reader games contest in Amiga Format. (Not to be confused with the commercial game with the same name.) Because it was issue 100, I got £100 instead of the usual 50. Yay! (It is also the game I am most proud of, incidentally.)

[jeb_]

My only game is "The Strategist". We have sold one copy during the last month, and that one was refunded ;) It's not my "best game", but it's the only one that is for sale. I finished it and released it just to have something on our site, but it would be fun if we got at least one happy customer :P

[AlexN]

I'd say our best game by far is Wild West Wendy (http://www.mysterystudio.com/wildwestwendy.php). I'm really proud of it. It's not our best seller, though :(

:eek: Which one is your best seller? Betty's Beer Bar?

[ggambett]

:eek: Which one is your best seller? Betty's Beer Bar?
Yep. (message too short)

[arcadetown]

Definitely Realspace 2 (http://www.arcadetown.com/realspace2/index.asp) is my all time passion. Reaslpace 2 - Have you destroyed the Earth today?

Completed RS2 5 years ago and still get rabid fans hounding us to make RS3, hopefully we'll get that done.