Indies, Platforms and the power of Steam - Beat Hazard's success!!

[trjp]

http://www.coldbeamgames.com/3/post/...26th-2012.html

Interesting read

Awesome game

Developer who interacts with his players and gains the rewards as a result

Happy Story!

[Malawi Frontier Guard]

I’m a 1 man indie developer. I was made redundant a few years ago after 15 years working for main stream studios. At that point I wanted to give indie development a go. So far it’s gone amazingly well!

He's developing indies.

[Rauten]

He's developing indies.

Is that what my brother was doing on the bathroom with all those chemicals?

[trjp]

Interesting reaction :)

Articles like this are mana for us developer types who are are perma-wondering how the hell we afford another tin of beans - I guess games players are less interested in the mechanics of it tho.

[alms]

Articles like this are mana for us developer types who are are perma-wondering how the hell we afford another tin of beans - I guess games players are less interested in the mechanics of it tho.

My jaw dropped when I'd read the original post yesterday (it was making rounds on twitter). 2 millions, that's a whole lot of money and I'd never suspected that game was that successful. The highlight of the article for me was him breaking down revenue from various platforms and sales.

[Rauten]

2 millions, that's a whole lot of money and I'd never suspected that game was that successful.

Well, despite it's simplistic nature, it's really good, and there's a ridiculously huge amount of people that are "Recommending" it on Steam (18441 at the time of writing).

[trjp]

Well, despite it's simplistic nature, it's really good, and there's a ridiculously huge amount of people that are "Recommending" it on Steam (18441 at the time of writing).

I think because it taps into a part of the gamer psyche which is underused - that of getting the player's other interests (in this case music) involved in the process...

That and the fact it's just really well put together and plays great :)