You can make a living writing your own games and selling them yourself. There are a number of independent developers who manage that, and some are earning respectable amounts doing it.

The market is big enough now that you can carve out a small niche for yourself and be profitable. You may not ever be noticed by the big game magazines or web pages, but that can be lived with if you''re earning a nice living without their "help."

Each game you release for sale becomes a new stream of income. So even if one game only nets a small amount, if you have several such games, the income adds up.

An alternative is to pursue "contract games" for publishers. There''s a growing demand for small-ish games, and certain publishers will pay for their development. It''s not Big Money, but it does pay. If you can finish the game while using up less than you''re paid, you can (somewhat slowly) earn enough to keep your own projects going.

You wanna "maximize" your earnings? Start small. Finish games. Polish them so they have a "professional enough" look to them. Slap a price tag on them. And then get on to the next project.


DavidRM
Samu Games

Cool then I am on my way...

if you want some kind of get rich quick scheme kinda game, here is my suggestion: take an established genre, like fpps, and within that genre do something completely unusual. do something no one has seen before. dont think it would work? four, five years ago, had any every heard of valve? now they are considered a huge developer and every one is wetting themselves over their next release.

reinterpret the genre and do something original. good games will sell (although considering who wants to be a ripoff...i mean millionaire is the third best selling game right, crappy games sell too).

if you make they will come...

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