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How much is TOO MUCH for an Android game? How much is besides little?
These questions plague me every bit a I laid upwardly to unloose my upcoming game on the Android Market, hopefully inside a calendar month or so. I've spent nearly a twelvemonth as well as a half, to a greater extent than oft than non later hours because I own got a twenty-four hr menses chore also, developing a rather elementary ball-jumping-platform-puzzler... for lack of a improve description, as well as I'm quite proud of it. Heck, it fifty-fifty has an on-device grade editor yous tin post away run to do your ain levels! But it's no Mario. In fact, it's to a greater extent than along the lines of something similar Lunar Lander. Will people hold upwardly willing to pay 99 cents for something I've poured countless hours into? And honestly, it feels a trivial devaluing (is that a word?) to accuse a mere buck for something that's taken as well as then much time, effort, and... sacrifice.
There's e'er a cost, or many costs, when yous pursue something yous genuinely enjoy. And I'm talking well-nigh to a greater extent than than but the toll of the man-hours invested inwards a project! In my case, I can't tell yous how many menage unit of measurement painting times, story times, or bedtime songs I've missed to "keep plugging away" at or as well as then urgent-seeming code. In retrospect, I uncertainty that whatsoever slice of code is ever that urgent.
Also mayhap ironically, I haven't played whatsoever games inwards a long time, which is a rattling deplorable fact for someone who used to honey first-person shooters as well as who is also on a journeying to decease a GAME developer! The truth is, whenever I consider playing a novel game, my idea procedure goes something similar "Why should I play or as well as then other game correct forthwith when I could hold upwardly using this precious trivial fourth dimension to piece of job on MY game?"
And let's non forget the toll of lost slumber as well as belatedly mornings. Feeling dead tired inwards the forenoon because yous were upwardly until ii or 3am the black earlier is a major drain, repeated occurrences of which tin post away (and inwards my instance did) Pb to major burnouts. At ane indicate I had to accept a yoke months hiatus from my personal evolution to instruct or as well as then rest. That was a tough telephone band for me, but was of import to instruct or as well as then sanity back. In the end, taking or as well as then fourth dimension off allowed me to instruct or as well as then distance as well as come upwardly dorsum alongside fresh perspectives.
All this isn't to tell I regret the fourth dimension I've spent working on the game. Over time, I've established a dependent champaign of exclusively developing a yoke nights a week, though they do nevertheless tend to hold upwardly belatedly nights requiring a major shot of caffeine when I wake up. But I intend it's practiced to realize alongside whatsoever passion yous pursue, unless you're lucky plenty to already do it for a living, that in that location are many potential costs to consider.
So if you're well-nigh to pursue something awesome on your ain time, the inquiry remains...
Are yous willing to pay?
Oh, and... decease on your eyes opened upwardly for a game called "JUMP!" landing on a marketplace nigh yous rattling presently :)
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