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Are Indy games profitable?...

by Duey Oxburger · in General Discussion · 10/12/2008 (1:29 pm) · 2 replies

Hey All,

Just wondering how profitable your games are. I understand that many of you are probably in it for fun and not profit, but for those of you who are trying to turn a buck, how successful have you been?

Thanks for sharing,

Stef
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Torque Owner Shane09
#1
10/12/2008 (1:52 pm)
Any indie game can be popular. It just has to be fun, worth the price, and "get out their". By get out their, I mean don't just only let the GarageGames community know about it. Put a ad out on another website, or on your Myspace/Facebook, or anywhere that serious gamers might be looking, say a cheat games website. Just make some cheats for your indie game and see if you can submit your game to a few cheat code websites. It's all about the marketing.

Torque Owner Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr
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#2
10/12/2008 (6:21 pm)
I used to make mortgage payments with mine at one time. I wouldn't call it hugely profitable - at $55 / hour, I make a heck of a lot more off of my contracting gigs than I ever did off of my own game development efforts.

It also matters what you consider to be a "profit". Technically, if you spent $0 in development, and don't count the time you put into it, a single copy sold at $10 is a profit.