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Cross-platform development cheaper?

PostPosted: Jan 28, 2006 @ 9:15pm
by mickey

Re: Cross-platform development cheaper?

PostPosted: Jan 29, 2006 @ 12:38am
by Kak

PostPosted: Jan 29, 2006 @ 12:19pm
by mickey
Sorry, I was talking about Palm support in PHAL which was announced here in November 2004.

BTW, do you think bothering about Palm support is worth the potential income?

PostPosted: Jan 31, 2006 @ 9:05pm
by Bapdude
I develop games both for PPC and Palm. My palm games FAR outsell my PPC games.

My 2 cents...

:D

PostPosted: Jan 31, 2006 @ 9:19pm
by Kak

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 1:24am
by Bapdude

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 2:19am
by Dan East

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 6:09pm
by Bapdude

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 6:16pm
by sponge

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 7:40pm
by Bapdude

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 9:30pm
by Dan East
Well, I know nothing about the Palm market, but I can say that PPC market expects a lot more for their money. Your puzzle games sell for $12.95 each. Games that take orders of magnitude more development time (both coding and art) sell for about the same on PPC.

For that cost you can buy a suite of puzzle games (7-8 games in all).

Your games do look highly polished and professional. However if your prices were halved (or at least under $10) I bet you would be making far more profit. Take a look at PDAmill's games if you want to see what sells and for what cost. $7.95 seems like a good price to me for your PPC titles. Of course if your Palm versions are selling good at the higher price then you'll want to keep them there. That's one problem of listing your titles all together - people may notice that the prices are different from one platform to another. However, considering they are completely different markets that is not unreasonable.

Regarding what Sponge was talking about, he's an editor at PocketGamer.com, and is quite into gaming on the PPC. For him to have not heard of it shows that you did not reach the online PPC community effectively.

Dan East

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 11:06pm
by David Horn

PostPosted: Feb 1, 2006 @ 11:14pm
by Bapdude

PostPosted: Feb 2, 2006 @ 3:25am
by Dan East

PostPosted: Feb 3, 2006 @ 9:54pm
by Birdiestyle