Hi Shaun: Well, I can't share any actual figures, but what I can say is I have been told by other accessible game developers that none of them actually made much money off the games they wrote. I have heard roomers that some games only averaged around $10,000 USD, and that was for a game that was relatively popular. Other games were lucky if they only grossed about $5,000 which is pretty much nothing considering the time, effort, and work that goes into an audio game of any complexity. The thing is the blind community is quite a minority market in general, and it is even worse for an audio game developer because it is usually only a small fraction of the over all blind community as a whole who have computers and regularly buy games. So no the gaming industry is not a huge money maker in terms of audio games.
Cheers! On 12/24/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. > The reason I still use xp apart from liking the find features and the > sound recorder plus the simple interface are all the games that still > use direct sound and vb6 code. > Oh would I like to say Look I will go full time to 7. > I have 7 I even have 8 if I want it. > But there are just some things like some older games excluding bsc > and others that are now no longer round anymore that use old outdated code. > I guess its the gaming industry is just really not a huge money maker. > I'd really like to know the status of some of the devs. > Some stuff is concreet, some is rumours. > Now I know it may cost and I know it is hard I do know since I am in > the business designing sfx for a small team, and I do know vb6 has > been a bench mark for a lot of the origional and current titles but > that really needs to change. > As a user I wouldn't mind to get concrete info from each dev. > I know lworks is moving towards using non vb6 code. > now if only liam can make superliam1 and judgement day have automatic > registeration codes. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
