I'll let the graphs speak for themselves first:
The sales graph curved pretty much exactly how I expected it: an exponential decrease immediately after release, then dropping off a cliff after the game fell off the New Releases/Most Popular lists. Once that happened, sales trickled down to single digits per day.
Overall statistics:
Downloads to date: 14572
Sales to date: 2703
Conversion Rate: 18.55%
Total revenue: US$4578.88
It did reasonably well compared to many other Community Games - but the overall conclusion is "don't quit your day job". Making a game and selling it on Community Games can be fun as a hobby, but it's not viable as a full-time job. This is essentially echoed by many other developers who have released games on XBLCG. Nevertheless, despite only being a minor success, the amount of money generated by NextWar's sales (however small) is still nice for something that I put together in my free time.
The Future
So what lies ahead for Micron Game Studios and the future of my hobbyist game development?
Well, I'm doing this for fun and not for the money, so I think I'll be making another game regardless of how I think NextWar did in terms of sales.
There are a few viable game designs I'm batting around right now, so stay tuned for more stuff coming out of Micron Game Studios in the coming months!
2 comments:
Are you still going to be updating Nextwar?
@Keith:
I had wanted to implement a kind of global scoreboard for NextWar and release it as a free update, but the limitations of XNA means that it's (practically) impossible.
I may decide to revisit NextWar and release an update, but I think that's rather unlikely. Sorry.
Thanks for your interest in NextWar, though!
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