Its true! (Bear with me).
Almost a month ago, I launched my own little space game (a 3d, tactical capital ship combat game called Darkdawn: Encounters) on Google Play. Much to my astonishment, its been selling well! Specifically, its been selling surprisingly well in the UK. A whopping 25% of my sales have been in the UK, as opposed to 46% US. That's HUGE, given the population difference! Apparently you guys love your space games over there.
Now, I didn't play Elite growing up since the original was a bit before my time; being 4, even Asteroids was quite a challenge back then... Still, as a huge fan of the genre, I was well aware of it's legacy and had gotten my basic pledge in during the Kickstarter (and have since played some Oolite). I've been seeing more and more good stuff come out of the newsletters though and I'd been strongly considering an upgrade to my pledge. With the success of my own little launch, particularly the huge UK turnout, I thought it only fair I send some Pounds back over the pond. So I'm now all in, funded up to the full Digital Download Pack!
I've also looked more into the making of Elite, and I have to say the story of a couple of guys making the game using stolen moments has resonated quite a bit with what I'm trying to do; definitely a great source of inspiration! My hat is off to Mr. Braben.
EDIT: Hey, so some of you were awesome enough to go check out my game and posted about it! That properly belongs in the General Games section, so I made a separate thread here: http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8975
Almost a month ago, I launched my own little space game (a 3d, tactical capital ship combat game called Darkdawn: Encounters) on Google Play. Much to my astonishment, its been selling well! Specifically, its been selling surprisingly well in the UK. A whopping 25% of my sales have been in the UK, as opposed to 46% US. That's HUGE, given the population difference! Apparently you guys love your space games over there.
Now, I didn't play Elite growing up since the original was a bit before my time; being 4, even Asteroids was quite a challenge back then... Still, as a huge fan of the genre, I was well aware of it's legacy and had gotten my basic pledge in during the Kickstarter (and have since played some Oolite). I've been seeing more and more good stuff come out of the newsletters though and I'd been strongly considering an upgrade to my pledge. With the success of my own little launch, particularly the huge UK turnout, I thought it only fair I send some Pounds back over the pond. So I'm now all in, funded up to the full Digital Download Pack!
I've also looked more into the making of Elite, and I have to say the story of a couple of guys making the game using stolen moments has resonated quite a bit with what I'm trying to do; definitely a great source of inspiration! My hat is off to Mr. Braben.
EDIT: Hey, so some of you were awesome enough to go check out my game and posted about it! That properly belongs in the General Games section, so I made a separate thread here: http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8975
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