http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames Knowledge based on experience. e-Commerce tips for game developers. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:48:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Price wars dropped the price of casual games from $19.99 to $6.99. It happened fast and didn't leave us much time to accommodate. Now new problem arises. Prices are still low, but development budgets are getting bigger and bigger. Folks at Big Fish Games have realized that $6.99 games can ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2010/01/20/games-are-too-cheap-thats-why-we-invented-collectors-edition/ In one of my favorite newsletters I read an interview with Bob Cox. It was quite interesting reading and I found a nice bit I would like to quote here: I read (I can't remember where) that it's as hard to sell a pair of shoes as it is to sell ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2010/01/19/dont-make-cheap-games/ I already know, do you? I asked BFG to add Runes of Avalon 2 to Daily Deals on Dec 18th 2009. I expected that it will take few days to launch it there as I didn't thought so many developers wants their games at such low prices. So there are ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2010/01/18/how-long-is-bfg-daily-deals-queue/ It's mid January so one can say it's a bit late for New Year Resolutions. Actually I was very surprised when I checked Indie Gamer Forums on Jan 2nd and found out 24 posts already. Maybe most people fail to keep their New Year Resolution because they don't put enough ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2010/01/15/in-2010-i-will/ Yes, you hear it right. The Perfect Tree was released a couple of weeks ago on our site, but just recently was released on Big Fish Games. A lot of credit for such a quick release goes to Big Fish Team - Thanks! Other portals didn't even bother to reply, ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2009/12/23/the-perfect-tree-launched-not-so-perfect/ Reflexive launched Tales of Monkey Island chapter 1. I couldn't resist to try it. I read nice reviews, but nothing is better than personal experience. The game is very nice and the adventures remind me the great old days. Still, I'm not a huge fan of 3D in this case. ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2009/08/19/tales-of-monkey-island-a-bit-of-surprise/ 60 minutes trial is a standard in casual games. It's accepted by customers, developers and portals. We got so used to it that we don't even check it. Imagine my surprise - yesterday I downloaded Airport Mania First Flight from Reflexive. I played it for a short while and when ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2009/08/18/is-80-minutes-trial-a-new-trend/ We all heart it - recession. But has it affected our sales? I don't know and that's why I'm making this post. You tell me this time. My sales have dropped, but that's not surprising to me. I focused on development on a new game and completely abandoned marketing and if ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2009/08/14/the-worst-year-ever/ Have you ever heard of director's cut version of your favorite movie? I'm sure you did. How many developer's cut versions of games have you heard of? Not too many? If at all. Two days ago Darek Rusin made a comment on my blog and because I haven't heard from him ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2009/08/13/directors-cut-or-authors-edition/ After probably seven years since buying my old PC I decided to get a new one. I really don't like to put money into hardware, but since my HDD started to report bugs every time I turned on my PC it was probably the final moment before loosing some critical ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2009/08/10/my-new-pc-rocks/