Andy is younger than I thought...... so, Andy, what do your parents think about this?
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Andy is younger than I thought...... so, Andy, what do your parents think about this?
I guess they think it is great. Dad has helped me quite alot with getting the business setup as he owned a store for years.
US, but all the numbers are "around about".
Andy and Chris - both excellent success stories. Gives me motivation that's for sure! I too was very surprised to hear you're so young Andy! I wish I got started at that age!
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do you really need a loan for a house, just flash ur cash dude.
Realstate agent: "the house will be costing 500k, I recomend you get a mortage"
AndyH "No need dude, ill pay cash, and oh yea, here an extra 10 grand, enjoy" :)
AndH congrad's you on top for my jealousy list, by the way how did u get into collage, before 18? usually most people enter collage/uni at 17-18.
P.S I saw ur games on rpg directories like a year ago but I never thought it would be that sucessful.
wow, i've made two turn-based strategy games that flopped and considered doing an rpg but figured it would just be a waste of time... i think i need to reconsider :p
I considered making one too back when I used to play Utopia. Just seemed like too much work.
I was thinking about doing one but my coding skills are somewhat lacking, I was trying to find a free generic game I could modify but I didn't have any luck.
runescape is one of the most successful rpg's that I've ever seen. I haven't played in a couple years but I was with it when their servers only allowed a max of 5,000 people playing at once. Now their member version has several hundred thousand members paying $5 a month and they have something like 40 or 50 servers, they had 4 when I started playing.
yea too much work, some flop like eMEraLdwPn (2 of them, :) ) and some don't, I finally put a book on hold in the library to borrow, php. I was planning to learn it for like a year ago, I finally took action thanks to Andy
Making your second or third text based game is ALOT easier than the first. For the first two years there were so many times alot of people would have given up.
As for Runescape, yeah that game has really grown since a year + ago.
Speaking of Utopia, I am currently working on my own game like that. I say like because they are both kingdom management games. Different in nearly all ways besides that. www.uwars.com if you wanted to have a look around. "Ticks" arn't running yet and battle isn't completed so there isn't much you can do. Already has a few thousand members which isn't bad for early beta testing. :)
What made me give up on utopia was the out of game manipulation.
It was somewhat fun though, like ancient rome. I got kingship a couple times through civil wars. But I ran a really good kingdom, I told everyone what to do, and gave them all good feedback (ran a little awards chart) we'd always start out great and powerful. But the all the people with friends/multi accounts, would kick in and it'd suck. One age we did end up best on our island and I was the best undead in the world for a few weeks. Still, if it wasn't for all the cheating, I would probably still play it. I really enjoy strategy games.
Like website publishing? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
andy, any tips for getting people to sign up? oh yeah, my most recent game is tick-based instead of turn-based... it's kind of like utopia, but more like civilization or risk
Spend a few hundred straight up on advertising.
www.mpogd.com
www.topwebgames.com
www.apexwebgaming.com
Run news, press releases, special offers, ads on them.
Cross promote if possible.
Oh and setup a reward based "tell a friend" system. If friends play then they will be more willing to learn, and if they were told about the game from someone they can ask them for help.
Make the game new player friendly. That is currently what I am working on as alot of people will just be overwhelmed and give up.
do you actually have people donating for the extra gameplay benifits? plus I noticed that you have little banner ads, and I dont think you have any popups/popunders, so does this suggest that most of you money comes from cj through your users completing specail offers