{"id":53,"date":"2005-06-27T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-06-27T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T16:49:00","slug":"longevity-of-a-shareware-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/longevity-of-a-shareware-game\/","title":{"rendered":"longevity of a shareware game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On indieforum site my friend cliffsky asked an interesting question about market saturation.<br \/>\nMany people agreed that there&#8217;s no need to worry about them in indie market. I believe it so, even if I am not too enthusiastic about it. I believe it all depends on what COMPETITION you have.<br \/>\nSay you make another of those align 3 color game&#8230; unless it has a good graphics or at least some innovative ideas (very hard), you&#8217;re likely to sell close to zero \ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\nSame thing applies for all kind of games. If you make a basketball management game, and there&#8217;s little competition, you might continue to sell it for 10 years. But if after 2 months another similar game comes out which beats yours 10 a zero, you&#8217;ll sell much less.<br \/>\nStill, my first game USM was basically a soccer management game like the Championship manager series with only one advantage over it: the speed of execution. That was enough and is still enough to get some sales every month, after 2 years&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On indieforum site my friend cliffsky asked an interesting question about market saturation. Many people agreed that there&#8217;s no need to worry about them in indie market. I believe it so, even if I am not too enthusiastic about it. I believe it all depends on what COMPETITION you have. Say you make another of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}