{"id":164,"date":"2006-09-30T05:43:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T09:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/the-newbie-indie-first-steps\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T05:43:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T09:43:54","slug":"the-newbie-indie-first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/the-newbie-indie-first-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"the newbie indie first steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok I want to have a bit of fun so I decided to write the:<\/p>\n

typical average newbie indie developer first steps into the business!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: the following text is probably exaggerated a bit, but is based on real facts! I’ll call the developer Joe Smith.<\/p>\n

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  1. Joe looking for porn sites finds by accident one of those new blogs\/sites that claim online business is the new golden age and starts to read it. Obviously he finds a reference to the famed Pavlina articles and goes to that site to read them.<\/li>\n
  2. Joe starts to get interested by the sales figures. 100k\/year here, another 50k prepay there and then he thinks “wow a tetris clone can make me 25k$ \/ year? pfui is a joke”<\/li>\n
  3. he obviously joins indiegamer community and announces he is going to change the world with his first game<\/li>\n
  4. he ignores any advice given there<\/li>\n
  5. he realize that even making a simple tetris clone isn’t so easy, and his initial “short 2 weeks game project” takes in the end 6 months<\/li>\n
  6. he announces his game to the world, expecting 100 sales overnight<\/li>\n
  7. after 3 months and 3 sales (of which 1 refund because “the game made my kid cry for 1 week”) he starts to wonder what’s going on<\/li>\n
  8. he is very angry and posts on indiegamer, “oh wtf, why my great exceptional original game doesn’t sell?! any suggestions?”<\/li>\n
  9. after wasting money in PR servies or adwords without any sales improvement, he realizes that yes, there are people earning 100k, but like in any other industry,the remaining 99,9% earns less than a street-sweeper<\/li>\n
  10. after 1 year of no-sex, his wife leaves him to go living with a famous black pornstar in a caribbean island<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ok hope you had a good laugh. That’s what happened to myself too, except for point 10 luckily! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ok I want to have a bit of fun so I decided to write the: typical average newbie indie developer first steps into the business! Note: the following text is probably exaggerated a bit, but is based on real facts! I’ll call the developer Joe Smith. Joe looking for porn sites finds by accident one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}