I see your point.
I do wander in that case what the future of audiogames will be.
Its obvious that in the short term a lot of what we know will probably die off.
Its almost we need a shot up the rear but question is what.
I once thought getting main stream companies on our side or making
games to equal things like that.
At 06:22 PM 12/25/2013, you wrote:
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 <sm.ever...@gmail.com> 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 and others that are now no longer round anymore that use old outdated code.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.
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