I’m not referring to porn games 🙂 but to games playable only by adult people because they’re usually more complex than the standard casual games.
Magic Stones will be one of those. No worries, if you played any RPG or strategy game before, it won’t be much more difficult to learn (at all).
But it will have what i call deep gameplay: lot of items, monsters, spells, etc. I plan to expand the game even after is released with new additions.
With this move probably I’m cutting out a large piece of market (the so called “soccer-moms” and childrens) but unlikely other devs I’m making games because I like to make them.
Earning money isn’t my primary goal, for that is much better making websites or other cd-rom stuff (like this one).
To me, the people quitting their daily job to live with shareware (and maybe they even have a family to mantain) are completely crazy… it’s simply not possible nowadays 🙁

Well, time to show you another piece of art taken from Magic Stones. This time is a … succubus!

Found very interesting the reading of Goodsol post about how he did a one-week game (Freecel) and he managed to make more than 50.000$ in 9 years. That’s about 5000$ per year and isn’t bad for a game done in 1 week.
However, as the ultra-pessimistic princec pointed out (but in this case he’s right), he is an exception to the rule. No game done nowadays in 1 week can hope to get even close to 1000$/year. Otherwise, anyone would be doing it and everybody would be happy, no? 🙂

I was looking at Reflexive stats for my game UBM (reflexive is a very good portal, with real-time stats for developers). I was surprised to notice that about 90% of orders come within the in-game order form and only a few using the traditional webpage!
I really didn’t expect a so high percentage. Hope my vendor Plimus add the in-game purchase option soon, it seems that is a very common system… 🙂

Ok it seems that yesterday the server was a bit too busy 🙂 got 3 identical post about “What are magic stones” !!! 😀
Well I think that you have clear enough what are they, no? LOL

My next game name is Magic Stones. But what exactly are they?? Here’s the definition directly from the game manual I’m writing:

They are the main artifact of the game, because they’re needed to create Avatars (powerful beings summoned by the druid to help him in the battle). There are a total of 20 different stones, each one with a different Power value from 1 to 5 related to a specific school

So the avatars of fire will be:

Draconian – Dragon man, very tough and stubborn
Succubus – Beautiful women who steal enemy life
Firemaster – Powerful wizard who cast fire magic
Hell Hounds – Hellish dogs who breath fire
Fire Drake – Dragon who can hit all enemies at once

Here is the picture of the Dragon: