Comments on: Indie Game Development 2012: A Look At My Third Year

By: COS

COS — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:43:26 +0000

Thank you for sharing your experience as an indie dev, after taking a look to the NOOK App Store it’s obvious there is a huge opportunity there. Hopefully they will open their store to more international developers so that I can join ;P

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:06:01 +0000

Felps, primary sponsorships are worth it for some people. It really depends on the quality of your games and how long it takes you to complete them. When I was doing primary sponsorships in 2009, only one of my games earned a decent sponsorship price.

By: Felps

Felps — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:52:06 +0000

Very interesting, I’ve been thinking of building some indie games myself, and information like this really helps me get an idea of what to expect for monitization. Ad revenue seems fairly strong for what it is. Are primary sponsorships really worth it? (I noticed them missing from the breakdown).

— Felps

By: polyGeek

polyGeek — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:02:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing Josh. That’s some good info.

Good luck with your games this year.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:45:46 +0000

Thanks for Sharing Josh, it’s great to read how other indies are doing on the various platforms.

I’ve seen slightly different results with my game, which sees Playbook as #1, followed by Nook, then Amazon… then in distant distant 4th and 5th come Android / iOS.

I got featured on Playbook, which has driven the majority of my success probably. Unfortunately, submitting my game to Nook was a bit of a nightmare, and I didn’t get on the store until last week. Since then, I’m selling about 10-15 copies a day, but I missed any xmas rush there…

I too saw the Amazon xmas sales bump, it’s like someone flicked the switch and suddenly I had a small but steady trickle from Amazon.
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I had amazing success with my Photo Editors across all markets on Xmas though, iOS and Android were off the charts. It’s crazy how wildly it can differ between different categories.

Good luck in 2012! Can’t wait to see what happens with Metro and BB10 😀