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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by spywaregorilla on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:46PM (#27622133)
> The average serious indie game makes $14k.

Source?

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by gentleman11 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:52PM (#27622223)
Might actually be 16k. Research is from mike Rose, an indie publisher

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6lZir97bUU0KdvIGNIVWG0O-_A...

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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by DizzyDoo on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:50PM (#27622195)
If the parent's main point is that indie game developers, on average, don't make tons of money, he's right: https://twitter.com/GreyAlien/status/1227557601786912769
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Re:Developing Games on Linux: An Interview with Little Red D... by spywaregorilla on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:59AM (#27630184)
I was hoping for something more descriptive I guess. Steam used to be much pickier about which games were allowed on the platform. Now it's anything goes, and there's a lot more lower quality games on it, that sell for under $5,have no marketing budget, and just kind of look bad.

The indie games I've played all seem to have little news posts about 1 million copies sold. So... what's the return on an indie game of 2012 indie game quality?

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