General Jackson, You can email me and I will send back my yahoo ID.
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le shorte, I have stated that I am willing to be flexible. People do not have to sell me their came to get them on my site.
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The advantage of what I am doing is that the games are downloadable after the payment is made to purchase them. Low cost to the developer and to me and still a chance for both to make money. A great deal of the games that will be posted will not be professional grade so the prices will not be professional grade. I do not expect that most of the games that will be sold will sell for as high as $50.00, $20.00 maybe. You have to consider first that the developer is an unknown and that the game has not had the exposure that pro games have. those 2 things alone make it hard to sell. Add to that a professional price and it would be near impossible to sell.
All games from inde developers must be priced accordingly. Taking into consideration that no one knows the creator or the game. Add to that the fact that some games will have only 1-5 levels. All matters must be considered when setting a price for a game.
Creator notoriety
Marketing
Number of levels
Quality of play
Textures
NPCs
Weapons
Smoothness
Appropriate use of lighting
Level lay out
Story
Player involvement
Originality
Sound Effects
Music
Voices
Visual Effects
There are many things that attribute to the price of a game. The list goes on.
Unless the game is truly pro quality and has had good marketing, It doesn't matter what site or store it is sold from, It will not sell with a $50.00 price tag on it. As long as we give inde games an inde price they stand a much better chance of selling. Unless someone has the money and the time to create and pay for TV, Radio and print adds just like the big companies and the game totally rocks the pro world, it will have to be priced realistically to sell in the arena that it was created in.
I say that there is money to be made for all. We can all still profit from our creativity and hard work. Remember that these games are downloadable when sold from my site. That means they can be sold over and over. No packing or shipping to pay for. Most of a pro price is because of the pro packaging. Plastic and paper and CDs and the shipping. these are things we will not have to deal with selling this way.
Later as a person grows their products and wishes to climb into the major arena then they will have those costs. Until then there is this opportunity to get our works out there and make a measurable place for the inde community as a legitimate productive force in the gaming industry.
Viva La Inde!!!!
Patience and tolerance are the keys to the passage of knowledge. Even the ones that know the most started with many questions.
