I quit my job 6 month ago and venture into indie game dev to try my luck and below is the result
First Month:
Spend 30 days to create "Programmer 9-5 day job" and then launch into Apple Appstore, Google Playstore, kongregate, newgrounds
Why I choose to create this game:
I want to try the paid model of the appstore, where I sell the game for $1 each and test the market, also I find there is 0 day job game on the market so I would like to create the first day job game to see if it is fun or not
Marketing effort:
Post on reddit, Post on blog, spend $5 on fiverr to broadcast to 100k twitter user
revenue so far for 5 months, I round it up
Appstore : $100 (100 sales)
Playstore : $5 (5 sales)
kongregate: $10 (10,000 play)
Newgrounds: $10 (10,000 play)
Second Month:
Spend 30 days to create "Billionaire Curse" and then launch it
Why I choose to create this game:
I want to try to create a game where I want to let user try to have a feel to be a billionaire and then spend all the money in 10 days, I created 10 places for the user to spend money, there is none of this game type on the market yet so I would like to try it out to see if it is fun or not
Marketing effort:
Post on reddit, Post on blog
revenue so far for 4 months, I round it up
Appstore: $100 (100 sales)
Playstore: $15 (15 sales)
kongregate: $0.7 (700 play)
newgrounds: $0.5 (500 play)
Third Month:
Spend 30 days to create "Idle zombie Spitter"
Why I choose to create this game:
Here is where I want to try the free model, where I publish the game for free, and then let the user play for free and then display the Advertisement inside the game and also put some In app purchase, also I would like to try to create my first Idle game and see how it goes.
Marketing effort:
Post on reddit, Post on blog
revenue so far for 3 months, I round it up
Appstore: $28 (11 In app purchase)
Playstore: $0
kongregate: $15 (15,000 play)
newgrounds: $0.5 (500 play)
chartboost: $4 (advertisement in app)
Fourth Month:
Spend 60 days to create "Multiplayer Space Shooter"
Why I choose to create this game:
Here I want to try to create my first multiplayer games where user can play together at the same time and also see how it goes
Marketing effort:
Post on reddit, Post on blog
revenue so far for 3 months, I round it up
Appstore: $0
Playstore: $0
kongregate: $1 (1,000 play)
newgrounds: $1 (1,000 play)
chartboost: $0
Conclusion: If you are indie, paid games is better than free games, and also idle games is better than multiplayer games, and finally, dont quit your job
So here it is, my 6 month journey, it is very grim, but I will continue
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