{"id":2485,"date":"2013-08-04T21:34:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T20:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2013-08-04T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T20:35:06","slug":"gratuitous-business-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/08\/04\/gratuitous-business-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Business Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did some analyzing of the last 10 months of positechs expenses and I get this graph:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2486\" alt=\"chart\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/chart.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/chart.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/chart-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/chart-317x200.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Training&#8217; might seem weird, but it&#8217;s because positech is not just me. There is another person doing some writing and proofreading, and yeah, I&#8217;m actually investing in training for that person, which is a very long term investmenty thing.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure is stuff like web hosting, accountancy and other ongoing expense stuff. Shows is a new one for me, and basically that&#8217;s attending GDC in the US as a visitor (including flights and hotels) and exhibiting 2 games at rezzed (including hotel).<\/p>\n<p>PR includes fees to PR people, plus similar expenses on game trailers and website design and coding, including this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Actual expenses are about 22% of revenue. Note that salaries and dividends as the owner of the company aren&#8217;t included in all this. Game production costs are basically contractor payments.Obviously if I included a calculation for my own time, the game production cost would be dramatically higher.<\/p>\n<p>Current projections put this years profits lower than last years, although that may turn around once Redshirt and Democracy 3 go into beta.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a chartaholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did some analyzing of the last 10 months of positechs expenses and I get this graph: &#8216;Training&#8217; might seem weird, but it&#8217;s because positech is not just me. There is another person doing some writing and proofreading, and yeah, I&#8217;m actually investing in training for that person, which is a very long term investmenty<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Gratuitous Business Expenses<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2013\/08\/04\/gratuitous-business-expenses\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}