In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I’ve been dealing with broken mac builds, a surprise Steam Linux sale which caused me to rejigger priorities at the last minute, and the release of a big article on Gamasutra. I’ll be finishing last week’s deploy, fixing bugs, and returning to regularly scheduled development soon.
Anyways, RE: Gamasutra, we just posted a full sales stat breakdown:
Bottom line:
Gross: $286,646
Sales: 40,451
We would never have had the confidence to do this without other developers who have shared their stats in the past, so it’s only fair we share our numbers now.
Chief takeaways:
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:27jykisb]Direct sales are still #2 source of overall revenue/
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:27jykisb]GOG is a viable (albeit small) competitor to Steam/27jykisb]
:27jykisb]Browser based demo was key to our success/27jykisb]
:27jykisb]Desura/Impulse were a disappointment/27jykisb][/list:u:27jykisb]
Your results may vary, this is just one data point and there’s still no proof that we have any idea what we’re doing. Hopefully this information helps someone!
