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The Indie Game Developer Survival Guide
- 1. Raul Portales @sla_shalafi raul@plattysoft.com The Indie Game Developer Survival Guide
- 2. The (Mobile) Environment
- 3. The Mobile Advantages Huge amount of potential customers Simple distribution channels
- 4. The Mobile Problem Lack of dedicated, quality channels (aka Discoverability sucks)
- 5. Apps != Games
- 6. Surviving is tough
- 7. Survival Tip #0 Lower your expenses
- 8. Do not rely on overnight success stories
- 9. Advantages of being indie Quick to react Personal touch
- 10. Competing with AAA Quick to react Personal touch
- 11. Fun Visually Appealing Works (no crashes or freezes) Players know about it
- 12. Don't reinvent the wheel
- 13. Don't try to do everything alone
- 14. Know your Players Measure EVERYTHING
- 15. Single Player Multiplayer Freemium Free2Play ?
- 16. Objective Figure out the market ASAP
- 17. Single Player Advantage Easier to build
- 18. Premium Advantages Easier to build Simpler to monetize
- 19. Chalk Ball 2-3 months of development Single Player Freemium 10K/200K downloads
- 20. Chalk Ball Graphs 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 20110300 20110320 20110410 20110420 20110510 20110530 20110610 20110630 20110720 20110800 20110820 20110910 20110920 20111010 20111030 20111110 20111130 20111220 20120100 20120120 20120210 20120220 20120310 20120330 20120410 20120430 20120520 20120600 20120620 20120710 20120720 20120810 20120830 20120910 20120930 20121020 20121100 20121120 20121210 20121220 20130110 20130130 20130210 20130300 20130320 20130410 20130420 20130510 20130530 20130610 20130630 20130720 20130800 20130820 Column B Current User Installs
- 21. Current User Installs 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000 90000 100000 20110410 20110420 20110510 20110530 20110610 20110630 20110720 20110800 20110820 20110910 20110920 20111010 20111030 20111110 20111130 20111220 20120100 20120120 20120210 20120220 20120310 20120330 20120410 20120430 20120520 20120600 20120620 20120710 20120720 20120810 20120830 20120910 20120930 20121020 20121100 20121120 20121210 20121220 20130110 20130130 20130210 20130300 20130320 20130410 20130420 20130510 20130530 20130610 20130630 20130720 20130800 20130820 Column B
- 22. Success: Survival costs covered Failure: Did not got enough traction
- 23. Fact 90% of the dowloads while Featured
- 24. Objective Get more downloads and traction
- 25. Free2Play Advantages Easier for people to try it out “Better” monetization
- 26. SpaceCat 4-6 months of development Single Player Free2Play 1.5M downloads
- 27. Chalk Ball Graph 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000 400000 450000 500000 20110620 20110710 20110730 20110810 20110830 20110910 20110920 20111010 20111020 20111110 20111120 20111210 20111220 20120110 20120120 20120210 20120220 20120310 20120320 20120410 20120420 20120510 20120520 20120610 20120620 20120710 20120720 20120800 20120820 20120900 20120920 20121000 20121020 20121100 20121120 20121200 20121220 20130100 20130120 20130130 20130220 20130300 20130320 20130400 20130420 20130500 20130520 20130530 20130620 20130630 20130720 20130730 20130810 Column B Current User Installs
- 28. Less than 10K players bought the DLC
- 29. The ARPU was under 0.01$
- 30. Success: 1.5M downloads Failure: Absurdly low income
- 31. Implementing In-App billing is difficult It is on the same level of complexity of creating a fun game
- 32. Fact Chalk Ball income > SpaceCat income
- 33. Fact We got “popular” thanks to SpaceCat
- 34. Objective Make the game I wanted to make
- 35. Multiplayer Advantages Better word of mouth More engaging
- 36. Codemon Almost 8 months of development (First version after 4-5 months) 7 people involved Almost 50K downloads Never featured by Google
- 37. Codemon graphs 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 20120430 20120510 20120520 20120530 20120610 20120620 20120630 20120710 20120720 20120730 20120800 20120810 20120820 20120900 20120910 20120920 20121000 20121010 20121020 20121100 20121110 20121120 20121200 20121210 20121220 20130100 20130110 20130120 20130130 20130210 20130220 20130300 20130310 20130320 20130400 20130410 20130420 20130500 20130510 20130520 20130530 20130610 20130620 20130630 20130710 20130720 20130730 20130810 20130820 20130830 Column B Current User Installs
- 38. Success: Great user retention Failure: Not enough downloads
- 39. Be prepared Someone will try to cheat
- 40. Fact Even for a completely Free game it is hard to get downloads
- 41. Fact Codemon ARPU >> SpaceCat ARPU
- 42. Still working on improving Codemon ARPU
- 43. Are these the future?
- 44. Fact I make more money freelancing one month than with my most successful game in one year
- 45. Apps != Games MTG Tracker makes more money per day Than any of The Pill Tree games (now long tail) per month
- 46. Survival Tips Recap
- 47. Survival Tip #1 Make the game you want to make
- 48. Survival Tip #2 Small projects, ship early
- 49. Survival Tip #3 Build a relationship with blog editors
- 50. Survival Tip #4 Go for Single Player, Premium games
- 51. Survival Tip #5 Measure EVERYTHING!
- 52. Survival Tip #6 For updates, define objectives first
- 53. Questions?
- 54. Raul Portales @sla_shalafi raul@plattysoft.com The Indie Game Developer Survival Guide
