1. Current Financial Issues
The games industry is a hard place to start a company due to the fact that a good game
needs a steady flow of cash to fund its development but for a new comer making a cheap or
free game can work however in the wold of today that developer can earn the least due to
the fact that at some point he will need to use a publisher advertiser or some form of
retailer they all take a cut of the profits so in the end the person who made the product will
only see a fraction of the cash
This diagram should help you understand how it works
Though that if you are making a big triple a game there are many other ways but they have
their own finial troubles one of these ways is make a free to play game so make a game that
no one needs to pay for and use a site like steam to sell it you should consider making
money by adding in micro dlc or map packs for a reasonable price and use the funds given
by that to update and improve the gam this is a method used by games like world of tanks
and war thunder but this means that you are putting trust into the public to buy you micro
and normal dlc and even before that you will have to make the game using ether no money
or your own this means that the game may be low quality at first and you will have no
backup plan if the game lops this is a risky yet effective way of making a name for yourself in
the gaming world
If there is a large company that has releases series of bad games they can find themselves in
deep trouble as they have spent all there funds on that game series then they have no
money to make any more games and in the worst case the publisher will more than likely
lev so the company will do one of two things they will ether declare bankruptcy o if they
have one use a trump card (a pre made game or remake) this will sometimes work and get
them the popularity and money they ned to keep making games one famous example is
2. never realms game mortal combat they had almost lost their company in a wave of bad
games but saved it with mortal combat 9 the game gave them all the funds they needed
and they are now releasing a new game mortal combat 10 this is just one of hundreds of
companies that have done this to stay alive and only a few have ever succeeded in surviving
The games companies need to get all the cash they can so that they can keep making
games and survive but over the past 40 years they have had to adapt to its audience in
order to keep the income coming one of the big issues is that people do not have as much
money today so the games have to be tailored to make the m want it people are harder to
please and the audience is no longer just boys and men girls and women of all ages are
starting to get into game in fact over 40% of gamers are women this means that games have
to include them so that the revenue doesn’t stop
One of the new ways to get games is both loved and hated by the gaming community is
early access to games the ability to buy and play/test a game before sold as a full game this
gets more money for the game company that they can use to make the final version of the
game is much more playable and fun
There are 3 stages of development when a game goes in to early access they are as
followed:
.The Alpha stage typically states that the game is around 95% complete some levels,
geometry and textures may be incomplete and the game will most likely contain bugs
.Beta indicates the game is ready to go to quality assurance testing to uncover any last
acceptable bugs and make final tweaks to gameplay mechanics As it’s impossible to remove
all bugs the developers should take it upon themselves to make an agreement with the
publisher as to what defines an acceptable bug
.Gold Master generally pertains to the games code being complete and ready to go to the
publisher for manufacturing and distribution all unacceptable bugs will be removed at this
stage
When you buy early access you will be getting the game in alpha then as time goes by the
game will enter beta and finally full release in that proses you will talk to the developers on
forums and so on in hope of finding all the bugs and fix them
