Text-Based Online Game Earns 21-Year Old $1,000,000
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Have you tried it? I used to be confused by text based games as well. I started playing this and it really is pretty good fun. Stop judging if you've never tried it.ActionDan said:
Hell this is great, he's obviously got a genuine love for the genre and has created something something special, and got lucky enough to be noticed by enough people for word of mouth to spread. Again, people showing they'll pay when something is worth it, I imagine a lot of pirates sent in their five bucks too. (not to derail the thread)
As for why anyone could buy it when anyone could make a text adventure, I could make Half Life 3. It would have no sound, stick figures and be buggy as hell and last about 2 rooms, but I could do it, I'd prefer to pay someone else like Valve to do it well tho
I just hope the guy's been sensible with his profits, either investing some in a new game, or saving a fair bit.
Maybe he should put together a retail edition and slap it on Steam, for like $5.99. I was recently reading about Garry's Mod, and he said when they had it on a half price weekend, he sold over 10% of his lifetime sales, I think his sales went up like about 700% on the last day of the sale. (Yes I bought it)
As for why anyone could buy it when anyone could make a text adventure, I could make Half Life 3. It would have no sound, stick figures and be buggy as hell and last about 2 rooms, but I could do it, I'd prefer to pay someone else like Valve to do it well tho
I just hope the guy's been sensible with his profits, either investing some in a new game, or saving a fair bit.
Maybe he should put together a retail edition and slap it on Steam, for like $5.99. I was recently reading about Garry's Mod, and he said when they had it on a half price weekend, he sold over 10% of his lifetime sales, I think his sales went up like about 700% on the last day of the sale. (Yes I bought it)
Jeez, I haven't played Urban Dead for ages; is that still going? I used to play that on the computers at school with my friends. It became boring fairly quickly though; this looks a lot better, considering all the options. Problem is, most people will just decide to become criminals and shoot everyone else. Can a player join the policeforce, or is the policeforce made up of NPC's? Or is there actually none at all?Chipperz said:
Urban Dead had a special "one off" event in a city with no NecroTech buildings and no Revivification Syringes. The mass zombie outbreak revitalized the game for a bit, but it's all died down again apart from the "die-hard" players (if you'll excuse the pun)Andronicus said:
It seems everyone starts as a criminal in Torn. After buying a crowbar, I'm trying to get the cash together to get an education and a job. I cannot believe how closely this is mirroring my life
This man's autobiography reads.
"I dug a hole and found gold."
Seriously, he is set for life. He reached the finish line he did.
"I dug a hole and found gold."
Seriously, he is set for life. He reached the finish line he did.
This man is a genius. Never in a million years would I think to make a free text based game to make a million dollars. I love how it's free except for the good stuff. That's how they get you.
Grues are terrible man-eating beasts that love the dark. Programmers would stick them in areas they didn't want the player visiting unless they had a lamp: if the player attempted to move around in dark areas without one, a grue would eat you after a certain amount of time.Aurora219 said:
Apparently there's a lot of tweens wandering the net looking for F2P games. Said tweens will spring for micropayments. This is why, when you go to the supermarket, look in the section where they sell pre-paid phone cards, and you'll see cards for Neopets, GPotato, Adventure Quest, and so on.
This guy got himself a slice, but he partly lucked out that enough people wandered in his direction. This is how it is with any minor novelist - for every success story there's hundreds that had a similar product but weren't so lucky as to be noticed.
This guy got himself a slice, but he partly lucked out that enough people wandered in his direction. This is how it is with any minor novelist - for every success story there's hundreds that had a similar product but weren't so lucky as to be noticed.