dislekcia
23-09-2010, 02:22 PM
http://www.toonormal.com/2010/09/23/the-october-challenge
Make a game ? take it to market ? sell 1 copy
Compared to the usual game jam and compo fare, this is a drastic change from the norm. Sales and marketing usually don?t factor in to the creative process of a Ludum Dare; Neither does filling out tax forms and setting up bank accounts. There?s a fantastic community of developers involved in indie, freeware and compo/jams. The compo/jam is the catalyst for many to take the plunge and start creating games regularly. After that, we leave it up to you figure out how to do more with it. I?m especially excited about this, not only for me (new game!), but for all those developers that haven?t taken the business dive yet. We regularly get many thank you?s after an LD, from developers that needed that little bit of external encouragement to finally sit down and do it. This wild diversion could be the seed needed by a handful of jammers to finally make the leap in to selling games. It?s crazy optimistic, but the one thing we?ve learned from LD is that deadlines are an amazing thing.
More at the link above... Awesome concept. With PayPal finally in SA, we can now totally enter stuff like this. So we should! ;)
Make a game ? take it to market ? sell 1 copy
Compared to the usual game jam and compo fare, this is a drastic change from the norm. Sales and marketing usually don?t factor in to the creative process of a Ludum Dare; Neither does filling out tax forms and setting up bank accounts. There?s a fantastic community of developers involved in indie, freeware and compo/jams. The compo/jam is the catalyst for many to take the plunge and start creating games regularly. After that, we leave it up to you figure out how to do more with it. I?m especially excited about this, not only for me (new game!), but for all those developers that haven?t taken the business dive yet. We regularly get many thank you?s after an LD, from developers that needed that little bit of external encouragement to finally sit down and do it. This wild diversion could be the seed needed by a handful of jammers to finally make the leap in to selling games. It?s crazy optimistic, but the one thing we?ve learned from LD is that deadlines are an amazing thing.
More at the link above... Awesome concept. With PayPal finally in SA, we can now totally enter stuff like this. So we should! ;)