{"id":743,"date":"2010-06-26T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-06-26T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:47:08","slug":"world-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/06\/26\/world-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"World Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at this yesterday:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/indiegamesarcade.com\/world-of-love\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Giving a talk about the business side of indie game development. I have my phears that I will be forever known as ‘the piracy guy’ or ‘the business guy’ which would be sad. Even the ‘my powerpoint slides screwed up guy’ would be better than that.<\/p>\n

However, I gave a talk on the topic because I know a lot of indie guys struggle financially, and I wish they could afford to be full time, supporting themselves from their games so they get to make more cool games. I hope what I said was helpful, and not too negative. When you look at the hard numbers behind indie gaming, it can seem impossible. If you can’t sell a game every 52 minutes, you will need a day job, basically. (And that means a demo download every 5 minutes, assuming an awesome<\/strong> game, 1 game a year, 100% of the profits, and one person consistantly making popular games without a flop, illness or other eventuality<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I met tons of cool people, and shook hands with loads of people I’ve emailed and forum-chatted to but never met. Eskill Steenberg<\/a> gave an amazing demonstration of how Love was made, which makes my tools look like the amateurish crap that they are! I finally saw a live demo of subversion, and that was fantastic. This may be the first introversion game I like enough to go buy. Plus Terry Cavanagh gave a great presentation of games that made me laugh out loud, which is rare enough.<\/p>\n

It was also pretty surreal to end the conference in a karaoke bar singing bon jovi whilst eating chinese\/japanese? food. Maybe now people will finally believe me when I say I cannot sing. I accept kierons explanation that I was trying to do ‘Bon Jovi, sung by Bob Dylan’, the best.<\/p>\n

I am 100% convinced that waiters in karaoke bars are given special, probably year-long training not to show any facial expression as they enter a cubicle full of drunk english people singing out of tune. Especially if the song is called ‘I touch myself’. All very strange…<\/p>\n

Back to work tomorrow methinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at this yesterday: http:\/\/indiegamesarcade.com\/world-of-love\/ Giving a talk about the business side of indie game development. I have my phears that I will be forever known as ‘the piracy guy’ or ‘the business guy’ which would be sad. Even the ‘my powerpoint slides screwed up guy’ would be better than that. However, I gave<\/p>\n

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