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Geek Culture / True Reality: You can not make a game for money - only for joy.

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Leonid
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 12:52
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Taking a money - it is joy too ... for adult.

If I wrong, let me make a little test (not for you, but for me too).

Write below:
How much money your parents (or you - if you are adult) spends for games, interesting programs and some other things (vases, toys, etc.)?
Programs must be not a pirate version, only legal.

Please, answer.

PS. Financial crisis and overflooding by the same games.
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Nateholio
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 13:16
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I don't spend much at all on games and other entertainment such as movies and TV. I'll include TV/movies since I only have maybe 10 games.

I've a couple games for my computer.

I've got an Xbox and two games for it, one of them included with the console.

No TV or cable/satellite subscription.

I'd estimate that I've got a total of $400 in games and $400 in other entertainment (mostly Top Gear and a selection of movies)


Ah, just noticed you included toys etc in your question....

My Lego collection is quite expansive with complete sets from the late 70's through early 90's. Can't even begin to guess its value.

I also have a complete (as far as I know) set of Bettletech/Mechwarrior novels, games, data books, and computer games. Again, can't guess the value of that.

Then there's the Intel/Zilog microprocessor and peripheral chip collection. Everything from the 4004 to Pentiums and their associated chipsets. They all work too! Don't know the value of that.

I've got a R/C aircraft and several engines for it. The plane, electronics, engines, and support tools probably total around $3000. Finally there's my cars. A 2001 Nissan Frontier ($25,000 or so), 1986 Nissan 300ZX ($2,500), and 2006 Toyota Prius ($25,000 ish). As a petrolsexual, I'm proud to have a cylinder-per-capita of 24 per...well...myself.

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Van B
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 13:21
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I probably spend about £100 per month on games... used to be a lot more than that, when the 360 was still young and there seemed to be a couple of must have games released every month. More recently, my money has gone on Steam and iOS Apps.

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TheComet
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If I look back in the past 6 years, I've only bought 4 games. I find they are a time waster and much prefer to program.

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mr Handy
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 14:08 Edited at: 31st Jul 2012 14:12
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My mom is buying casual games like Zuma or Bejeweled. But mostly she buys books of any type (no, she's not Twilight).

I've bought lots of games for PC. No console games.

P.S. Topic theme is absurd, because you could make game for joy AND money.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 14:13 Edited at: 31st Jul 2012 14:14
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The kids today just seem to be absorbed in their mobile phones, clothes, Jeremy Kyle, and Facebook. As far as I can tell their is little money going anywhere.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 15:17
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Quote: "How much money your parents (or you - if you are adult) spends for games, interesting programs and some other things (vases, toys, etc.)?"


I spend about £10 a month to cover MMORPG gaming. I used to pay monthly for XBox Live Gold, but don't any more. On games itself, I might spend maybe £150 - £300 a year. This year, I've rebought Nier and Star Ocean 4. And bought Star Wars: The Old Republic, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and RAGE.

On programs, I am actually a cheap-skate and the costs have been spread out over the years. Got Cinema 4D 6 & Carrara 5 Pro free with a magazine, so £6 each. I got Hexagon 2 when it was on deal for £40. I spend £50 to get TrueSpace 5. I spend £50 on Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate when I was a student and got a free upgrade to 2010. I spent $150 (can't remember what I paid in £s) on Torque Game Engine, but never use it, so that was a waste. I think I spent £20 on Dark Basic Classic years ago, then got DBP for £15 from Amazon. Then the Dark Game Studio Bonanza for its amazing deals and the FPSC Winter Sale for its amazing deals. Yes, this means I now own 3 copies of Dark Basic Pro. I pay £50 a year on internet security. I've paid for internet security for the last 4 years.

That's my entire spending over the last 12 years on programs.

Other stuff? I buy books, CDs & DVDs, but couldn't put a cost to them. Probably, like video games £150 - £300 a year, but in total. I also spend £20 - £30 every 2 to 3 months at Lush (yes, a male who buys cosmetics). In the same period, maybe £10 - £15 on specialist teas. What? I'm English.

Clothes? Most of them are bought at gigs and festivals. And I occasionally replace stuff after wear and tear.


I like spending money on myself, but I don't very often have a lot of it. If I did, I am sure I'd have a much more powerful computer by now.

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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 19:40 Edited at: 1st Aug 2012 00:06
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Quote: "The kids today just seem to be absorbed in their mobile phones, clothes, Jeremy Kyle, and Facebook. As far as I can tell their is little money going anywhere."


I find that offensive.... I do not own a mobile phone, i do not watch stupid jeremy kyle, and hardly use facebook..... I'm [mod edit]please read the AUP[/mod edit] and must be living in a different world o.O

I also work my butt off trying to pull in some money what ever ways i can

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But there is a LOT of free content on the phone, why pay for anything, when you can find those 2 hours of entertainment for free?

what is jeremy kyle?


and if money should go towards ANYTHING dshouldnt that be... like, clothes and the like of that? since that's a necessity...



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Posted: 31st Jul 2012 21:49 Edited at: 1st Aug 2012 00:06
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I find that offensive.... I do not own a mobile phone, i do not watch stupid jeremy kyle, and hardly use facebook..... I'm [mod edit]please read the AUP[/mod edit] and must be living in a different world o.O"


The people on this site don't count as average...

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Quote: "The people on this site don't count as average"


Oh true... XD...

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Leonid
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 05:35 Edited at: 1st Aug 2012 17:03
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Quote: "P.S. Topic theme is absurd, because you could make game for joy AND money.
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I want to make a learning game for my joy, but distributor must spread a game as wide as possible.

Interesting... I think, when I will be [get (my stupid English language!)] married and bear a son I will always do games only for him. It is a joy to see his joy. This way in my life is main for me.
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mr Handy
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 09:32
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AFAIR JK Rowling started her HP books as stories for her daughter

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 09:52 Edited at: 1st Aug 2012 09:52
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Quote: "AFAIR JK Rowling started her HP books as stories for her daughter"

Wikipedia mentions nothing of it.
Quote: "In 1990, J. K. Rowling was on a crowded train from Manchester to London when the idea for Harry suddenly "fell into her head". Rowling gives an account of the experience on her website saying:
"I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who did not know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.""


However, it does mention:
Quote: " The decision to publish Rowling's book apparently owes much to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father and immediately demanded the next."


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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 10:52
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Quote: "Wikipedia mentions nothing of it"

Almighty source

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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 12:04
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It depends, in october-novemer, I think I spend 100-150€ on new released games, other than that I buy the some games when they are on sale. And of course I (my parents) spend a fair bit of money on hardware. A new computer or phone every 2 years or so.
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Posted: 1st Aug 2012 14:01 Edited at: 1st Aug 2012 14:01
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Quote: "Almighty source"

Unless it's for academic purposes, Wikipedia is good enough for casual citations in places like this. Besides, the articles cite their sources. i][/i])

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I used to have a big cupboard full of games. Don't know how many (I have thrown the boxes and only kept the CDs now) but they go back *many* years. I used to buy about 2 or 3 a week I would say. That's got to be a whole tonne of money!

Thing is, the really sad bit, is that I've always been into making games and programming and it became so much that I would buy the games out of habit. Like collecting Pokemon or some such addiction. I always said that the games I didn't play I would at some point play them once I had some spare time. Got more spare time and what do I do? Program. I don't even read books much anymore (used to read about 10 books a week at one point). So I reckon I probably have a good 30-50 games I have never even loaded up or even installed. I'm talking some real classics here too. Half Life? Almost completed that one. Half life 2? Still haven't played it....

Cry...

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Quote: "AFAIR JK Rowling started her HP books as stories for her daughter"


Although that is being argued with, but LOTR, and The Hobbit were written for Tolkien's children.

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Quote: "How much money your parents (or you - if you are adult) spends for games, interesting programs and some other things (vases, toys, etc.)?
Programs must be not a pirate version, only legal."


How much I buy is hardly relevant to how much I want to MAKE from making games.



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