Burning my Trailerparkboat

[RedKnight]

:D Hello.

I'm unemployed for 7 month now. and still :mad: working on my first commercial game. my site is http://360.digitalthinker.org
I'm still working on homing missiles.
competing with Kaiyin :rolleyes:

I'm from suriname, it is in the north of south america (north of brazile, for those who don't know where I'm from)
It's not one of those wellfare countries, it's second /third poorest country in the western region(Haiti is still the poorest)
That mean..... If I can earn above $10.000 a year,
that's more then my old job. (Jewellery Salesman, around $400 a month)

[Sirrus]

$19.95 - 10% (CC processing fee) = 17.95

10,000 / 17.95 = 557 orders/year
557 / 12 months = 46 orders/month
46 / 30 days = 1.5 orders/day

This is a pretty achievable goal...

[RedKnight]

Well if I have 2 different games for $19.95.

$19.95 minus cost = $15.
2 multiply $15 = $30.00

well lets just say
50 orders a month for both of these games, 25 order for one game a month.

12 * 50 = 600 orders a year.
600 * $30.00 = $18.000.00 a year. :eek:
Ok. i'll get back to work. :D

I also have some questions about some types of games.
Like SHMUP ,fighting and RPG games.

Do they sell? when you compare them to Puzzles games.



Living in a poor country really have it's Pro and Con.
Pro.
I think that there's no Internet taxes, yet.
Living standard and cost are low.
Very very low when I compare to some of my relative who live in
Hong Kong and New York.

Cons are.
Crime rate (what they say about the blackman is true :p ),
Software Piratcy, well almost every body is doing it. :eek:
from Music CD, DVD, Software ,Computer and consoles Games, Shoes and Clothes.

[Jack Norton]

This is a pretty achievable goal...
Hmm... for someone starting from scratch, 1.5 sale a day IT IS NOT an easy goal, expecially on Windows market... believe me... don't want to discourage you, but this a fact... ;)
You may sell that the first month if your game is good but then is very hard to mantain that rate... :eek:

[ggambett]

Hmm... for someone starting from scratch, 1.5 sale a day IT IS NOT an easy goal
Sirrus said achievable, not easy. I agree with both : it's achievable but not necesarily easy.

[RedKnight]

and what about 1 game a week?

[MirekCz]

RedKnight:
It's hard to tell, it all depends on many aspects like:
-how does your website look?
-what are your marketting efforts?
-how does your game appeal to the customers group that comes to your site?
-Do they have a good reason to pay for the full version?
-Are they confident with paying via internet using your page?
-how many games do you sell
etc.etc.

All in all, you can have a great game and poor marketting or website and make little money, you can have poor game with great marketting and great website and make more money... of course a good mix will start to give you much cash... but it usually takes some time to find a decent mix.
From what i remember you're looking on average for like between 1 to 4 years of hard work to earn fine money (>1000$/month steady income), of course without 100% chances for success :)

[Norbyte]

@RedKnight,

To avoid turning this thread into a completely different debate, you may want to edit the politically incorrect statement (regarding crime rate) in your previous post...
Just a friendly suggestion.

Back on topic:
You goal seems to be quite reachable, but it requires a lot of hard work.
If your first game only sells a few copies, don't give up. Instead, try to learn as much as you can from the experience so your next game can sell better.
Good luck!

[Andy]

and what about 1 game a week?

Probability is pretty high for this Knight. Believe me or not... :(

[RedKnight]

Yes. I was way off topic. :D

[Andy]

Probability is pretty high for this Knight. Believe me or not... :(

stupidity to quote yourself but... ;)

Guys, we are doing OK. But that required amount of time and efforts.

Why I'm saying this? Because I have found a couple of follow ups to our server from this thread. :D

[Dan MacDonald]

:D Hello.
competing with Kaiyin :rolleyes:


Do you mean Kaijin?

[RedKnight]

Yes Kai-jin or Kai-Yin
is the same Kanyi- Chinese name anyway.

[techbear]

Sorry, but it crashes on entry for me, on my Win2K P3 800 with DX9 and a GeForce4 ti4200.