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Re:Don't Fire Your Illustrator by bombolo on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:28PM (#37215602)
Most people are not professional movie critics and enjoy more a hollywood film rather than me recording barbie dolls and making them talk.

Did your video game sell as much as outcast? A game with a proper music score.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(video_game)

Does your game have a wikipedia entry?

Could I assume that people enjoyed outcast more than your hobby game?

Re:Don't Fire Your Illustrator by ux-app on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:10PM (#37218198)
lol, what a fantastically obscure game to choose!
Re:Don't Fire Your Illustrator by ben_w on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:59AM (#37223702)
> Most people are not professional movie critics and enjoy more a hollywood film rather than me recording barbie dolls and making them talk.

Sure, but they'll also watch daily soap operas, and the meme "I showed my favourite film to a loved one, but they paid no attention" predates multi-screening.

> Did your video game sell as much as outcast? A game with a proper music score.

Even in aggregate over all the games: I wish :P

But the real question is: how much of that was the music?

Even now, were I to redo that period of my life (and so not need to caveat markets changing), the music isn't what I'd focus on changing — shareware was already a bad idea though I didn't realise it, MacOS shareware written in Java just as MacOS got its own (ObjC only) app store moreso.