Interesting post from my friend at grubbygames.com about the huge traffic spike he got thanks to a flash version of his game Prof. Fizzwizzle
The figures he posted in forums are quite impressive. I thought about making flash version of my games too, the problem is that they’re quite complex (not the average casual game) and honestly don’t know if the money/time spent on them would be recouped easily…!
I’ve already got plenty of feedback for my games, expecially Universal Boxing Manager. Is cool because in this week the game reaches 3 years of age – and from version 1.0 to the latest 1.3.3 so many things have changed that doesn’t almost look like the same game (3d boxers, new search, DirectX support). My goal is to continue expanding it. Yes I could do as many other devs and just start working on a sort of UBM2, but I don’t feel like it, at least in the immediate future.
Rewriting a game from scratch could have some upsides like being able to use a vector system for the game database, making it more quick and versatile. I have a lot of new ideas for a sequel, but for now I prefer to update the existing version so current users don’t feel cheated to have to buy a new version again 😉
It seems so! Just read that from a goodsol blog post in which he links to an article on gamedaily. At first I thought was quite strange, but when I looked at my sales stats I saw that many women bought my games, many of them my rpg Magic Stones but also many women bought my sports games (which I thought would appeal only to a male audience!).
So yes, the future is … women 🙂
So far nobody complained for my games, but my friend at Phelios started to say that some users using the new Intel Macs find their games (mostly action/platform ones) slow 🙁
This sucks really because basically forces all us programmer to buy an Intel Mac… for now I’ll wait since luckily my games doesn’t have 100 sprites moving on screen at once and so are less affected by speed problems, but in future maybe I’ll have too…
You’re a NPC! yes, you hear me right, you’re a Non Playing Character!
Lol maybe my friend gilzu drank too much beer or something… but I like that definition. About me, I like both leveling up and completing goals (quests if we want to keep talking in a RPG way!). Indeed if you notice in most RPG, completing big quests give you the best rewards/experience points, so must be the same in life.
Those quest in my RPG (life) are something like being featured on Apple homepage for 2 weeks with my game Supernova a year ago, getting cool reviews of games like this Magic Stones review, and so on. Oh, also having a nice girlfriend to share your adventure isn’t bad 😉