If you’re an (aspiring) indie game developer, this is a topic you should be interested in! I know I am!

Although some indie developers say that sales data from others is irrelevant, I think it’s interesting to see how others are doing. And it can be motivating to see what the possibilities are!

Recently, GameProducer.net, a very interesting blog for game developers, started publishing sales statistics for several games, including Cactus Bruce and the Corporate Monkeys, Xmas Bonus and Democracy.

But, although these games seem to be doing very well, keep in mind that there are a lot more games doing a lot worse! I’m experiencing this first hand, with less then stellar results.

Other sources for sales data are forums, like the excellent IndieGamer forum, and the iDevGames forum. The latter has a thread in which several Mac game developers disclose their download and sales stats!

And maybe some day, when I have decent sales to show, I’ll put my own sales stats in this blog also…

It has been way to long since my last update to this blog. And the reason is very simple: last week I bought myself a brand new shiny iMac, with an Intel Core Duo processor!

And of course I’ve been spending way too much time installing and setting it up, and playing with all the new features of MacOS X 10.4. Yes, I was still using 10.3 on my almost 4 years old Powerbook G4…

The difference in speed is amazing. My favourite Java development environment IntelliJ IDEA is working like a charm now.

But, I have to be honest and say that there are a few negative sides also… I’ve experienced quite some crashes from various applications, and even my own game Enigmatic Movements quits with an error message. Seems like I have some investigation to do…

But I expect things to get better as more apps get compiled into universal binaries. The nice thing is that my machine will continue to feel faster as more and more software is optimized!

About This Particular Macintosh has written a review of Bubblomania X.

They have given it a rating of Good. The reviewer was one of many people who initially tried to catch all the small bubbles, instead of only the big bubbles. Hmm, apparently the big CATCH sign next to the big bubbles isn’t obvious enough…

Maybe I’ll have to make the small bubbles more transparent, to make clear they’re just decoration. I keep learning every day!

I just updated my blog to WordPress, and at the same time moved it to www.darkmoonsw.com/blog. I must say that it is a major improvement over the older b2 blog I was using! And I was able to copy all the posts of the original blog, so nothing is lost.

I still have to customize it a bit, and get the adsense in etc. But that’s a job for tomorrow, I should’ve been in bed by now!