Caltrops - Cetka





	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"][quote name="Hans Clastorp"][quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"] Manly I'm figuring I'd like to be able to sell something around $2,000 to $5,000 worth, which would definitely have made it worth the effort. Might even do better than that but I'll take what I can get. [/quote] Real talk: you will never make a single cent from this project.[/quote] So what you are saying is that even with putting out a demo version to give people a taste of the full game, putting up say a Facebook page, possibly buying $30 or $40 worth of search engine ads at 2c per hit, and despite the fact the game will support 5 additional languages in addition to English, that the game has 96 levels and costs $4.95. I cannot expect, <i>in the entire world</i>, to sell even 400 copies? You know, maybe I should just forget it. I've had plenty of practice writing programs for free, I have lots of other things I can do with my time than waste it creating and publishing a game that won't produce a dime in profit. [quote] Frankly I will be amazed if it ever runs on a machine other than the one it was compiled on. [/quote] Oh please. I have four computers in addition to the one I am compiling it on, you think I won't do an install on all of them? I have machines running XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Plus I have the Macintosh to test it on for Mac compatibility. Since Free Pascal runs on Linux, I can release a version for that at the same time. [quote] But you should still do it! [/quote] Yeah, waste my time and effort on a game that produces no profit. Really great productive use of my time.</sarcasm> [quote]It sounds like a fun project you will learn a lot from, and I'm interested to read more about your progress and discoveries along the way.[/quote] That ain't makin' me no money, fella. [quote] My advice is to try to enjoy the journey and learn some things, rather than fantasizing about monetary rewards that will never ever ever materialize. [/quote] I've been writing programs probably for longer than you've been alive (34 years). I have lots of other fun things to do than to take the time and effort to work on a project that has no possibility of returning any money for the amount of time I spent on it. I took a program someone else wrote, converted it from Delphi to Free Pascal, then made some modifications and sold it to ICJ as a program to create mazes in an adventure game. I got paid $70 for about 3 hours work, which isn't bad (considering I desperately needed the money at the time),. If I can't even do considerably better on a mass-market application, there is no point going through the agony and effort for no reward at all. [quote]But hey that's just my opinion :)[/quote] Let me ask you, how many programs have you sold or tried to sell? How much experience do you have either as a staff or freelance programmer? How much marketing experience do you have? [/quote]