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Good article with a happy ending. Despite the need of around 3K GBP the end result suggests they made enough to cover costs and pay a wage.
They said there were some 10,000 scores posted on leader boards. So at £3.99 x 10,000 = £39,900 less the £3000 costs leaves around £36,000 for wages and whatever else. Obviously depends on how many others worked on the game and how long it took to actually create.
Not bad, looks cool, I like those games like Galaga and asteroids. Still play galaga to this day.
If that's the case... If they had been working on it for 8 months... that's 1K per month each?
What about office space, computers, general bills, pension, insurance, marketing?
Not to bash MS, but the over heads are not in the developers favour.
I suppose it's a dog-eat-dog business situation out there. If you've got money.. you can make money... (kinda like stocks and shares etc)
If you can't afford to spend more time and money on developing the game, the gameplay will suffer, sales will suffer... meaning less money to the dev's.
There must be a happy medium somewhere... Profitability, speed to develop/ship the game, amount of colleagues....and I imagine 3000K adheres to that margin... whitling out the newbies with little or no resources
What I get from this article is MS requires that you copyright your IP and that if you want to release in Europe, you have to pay for your own PEGI fees. MS doesn't charge a thing for self publishing it looks like. Just realize that self publishing doesn't mean the developer gets a handout.