Well, what is someone going to do with a couple of levels in a
game, they can't really do anything with that. It is far too
limited compared to a real full game.
I understand what you are saying, but what you are saying does not
apply to someone downloading just a demo of your game.
Now, if you want to sell games online using a web browser with
webGL (then you would have to encrypt the javascript output and I
do believe that there are options out there to do that, but they
may not work with WebGL yet). Also you would need some kind of
authentication system as well so that they can't distribute the
javascript file.
I think you have to look at WebGL as a marketing tool to get your
game out there when it's just too hard to get noticed in a
storefront.
How many breakout type games are around at 99 cents at a
storefront? WebGL allows you to be noticed more and stand out
because now I can play a demo of your games online by any platform
and just about any browser and if you want more you buy it at an
online storefront for apps. No installing, no worry, just click on
a link and play anywhere from anywhere.
Also, I don't mind free games as it drives traffic to my website
and it get's people interested in my games and maybe they will
follow me on twitter and I can put them on my Facebook page.
I see this as a great way to get traffic, get noticed, and gets
your games in peoples hands which creates revenue.
Microsoft allows you to play demos of any arcade game on Xbox Live
you can log-in to Xbox Live and go to the Xbox Live Arcade section
and then download game demos all day and night and play them all
day and all night. However, these are demos, they only have a
small amount of content to get you to buy the full game.
This is a great idea, now if you take this even further and put
those games on the web so that anyone on any platform, anywhere
can play those games easily without installing them or knowing
how to do anything can play those games and get the feel of the
quality and you get your games out to a lot more platforms and
people. So they know that they have to download the game on
their iphone, ipad, PC, Mac, whatever that they probably will
do that.
It's really a win here guys. Now, I just upped my traffic by
promoting games on my website and now I get people to also look
at whatever else I have on my website as well.
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