Post#34 » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:56 am
Hello, I'm the developer of Alice's Mom's Rescue.
I just wanted to say that I'm a bit ashamed about the retail price which I also consider too high.
I told to HuCast about that, and the pre-order price was much lower, but in the end he decided to get the price up when the game was released last week.
At first, I was considering selling the game for about 25€, (and that's the price I will set for the Atari Jaguar CD release which will come soon)
but I don't have control on the HuCast publishing decisions.
I could have release the game for Dreamcast on my own, but let's be honest, it wouldn't have had such spread on the Internet, HuCast have a large contact list and now the game is known on a lots of website that I wasn't even aware of.
Also the game now feature two really nice cover artwork that was possible only with HuCast.
I read some comment (maybe not here) about the game being 2D and a little too simple for the Dreamcast hardware, I just wanted to say that I'm a single developer...
For my next release on Dreamcast, there will be 2 game in one, a Myst like and its sequel, I hope this will be much fair if the price is the same.
Dark > you are right, selling a game 1€ on mobile is just unfair for the time I put on creating the game, but otherwise it wouldn't sell at all.
This kind of price is only valid if selling more than 10000 copies, but only a few developer on earth sell that much ... (and it require lots of advertising, or lots of luck)
To be honest I sold less than 30 copy of Alice on mobile phone, 30*1*70% = 21€ earned in two month...
That's why I'm trying to port my game on other platforms so I hope to have a little more return on time investment.