Official PC Thread

[Compass]

It could be an indirect money-maker as far as helping their careers in game development.

[Uriel]

I think the Minecraft model has been the best alternative I've seen. Get people in early at a low price, and reward them for that investment (and alpha testing) with free shit from then on. It's pretty smart to use a game's sales to fund it's own development. But of course not everything is as good as Minecraft, nor as suited to this development style.

The donation model seems to fail more often than it works AFAIK.

[Diff-chan]

The other big game it worked with was Mount & Blade.

[MechDeus]

I wouldn't lump ad-supported games like Meat Boy or Alien Hominid in there, since they were never freeware. Their authors were always making money from them, they just wanted to move on to project of a different scale supported by a different model.

I didn't think they made much - if any - money from that. Seemed to me like Newgrounds was just one of those lump-everything-together sites to try and leech ad and supporter money from other people's contributions.

[Frogacuda]

I didn't think they made much - if any - money from that. Seemed to me like Newgrounds was just one of those lump-everything-together sites to try and leech ad and supporter money from other people's contributions.

Alien Hominid was made by Tom Fulp, who own Newgrounds, and Meat Boy was made as part of a deal with them (hence its exclusivity). I know for a fact they got paid for it, and I've spoken to Edmund in particular quite a bit about his games going back to before Super Meat Boy was ever even announced. He was earning a living (albeit a meager one) from his flash games and such.

[James]

And sometimes people release free stuff for the joy of releasing free stuff.

Knytt
Runman: Race Around the World
Ranger
Don't Take it Peronsally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
Kenta Cho's stuff
Octodad
Super Crate Box
Not to mention classics like Star Control 2 (Ur Quan Masters), Warning Forever, and who knows what all I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.

James

[bbobb]

Oh shit, gog.com just put up Realms of the Haunting:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/realms_of_the_haunting

I remember playing that game and loving it back when it came out, though I was in high school at the time so it's possible it isn't nearly as good as I remember. Still I'll definitely be picking it up again.

[Dyne]

FPS and point and click? I'm in.

[MechDeus]

And sometimes people release free stuff for the joy of releasing free stuff.

I know. All my previously stated points still stand.

I'm not saying they should charge for it, I'm saying that using someone else's material means they're limiting what they can do with all their product. Rootage got ported as a free game for the iPhone, something this game can never do.

[DirtySouth]

Streets of Rage remake. Grab it before SEGA pulls it.

http://www.bombergames.net/forum/vie...php?f=8&t=1012


http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/05/st...the-re-making/

Not to discount this game in any way, but there's about a million and one "home brew" beat em ups on the interwebs created with the Beats of Rage engine. It's going to take a lot for this game to differentiate itself from the crowd.