#and the money but that one was secondary

[the-passenger-if]

Hi Pime!! Congrats on the release of the game it was ridiculously good and hit me right in the feels. I have a curiosity question that you can totally ignore if you're uncomfortable answering it or don't want to or anything. Given that you sold your game instead of like the "standard" contract that a lot of IF authors are able to have, did you make as much as you were expecting to for your first game? (I'm definitely not asking for specific numbers 😨 just like in general) I'm just curious how it all panned out because I feel like your game has been everywhere lately but that could just be my dashboard lol I'm really sorry if this is a rude thing to ask, I kinda have a hard time with social cues sometimes. And congratulations again!!🥳🥳

combining it with

Do you get updated with numbers? Do you know how many copies have sold already? I hope it’s been going well!!

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Hi there! As an aspiring IF author, I was wondering if you'd be comfortable talking about the mechanical process, profit, and other technical aspects of having your work published. I understand that finances are often uncomfortable to talk about, but because of that a lot of us who haven't gone through the whole process have very little information about how plausible it is to even make some side income through writing. Thanks!

I’m quite pleased with The Passenger’s sales. Let’s just say I had a number in my head that was handsomely surpassed n_n

Irt the more mechanical process, I can talk about my experience as an argentinian writing for Hosted Games, which is a completely different experience from someone residing in the US or a country with a tax treaty with it. I had to sell the game and the rights to get it published—which I was aware of since almost the start—so my contract looks different from what you can read on COG’s page.

Now, how plausible it is to make some side income writing for HG: I guess it depends on how many books you can churn out in a relatively short amount of time. Some authors can finish a book per year (like @jamesshawgames) others will work on a single book for years (like me). There’s a HG author that has published like 15 titles and I guess they are getting something from the royalties (I wouldn’t know about that; I get no monthly royalties from TP).

I asked @sofia-d-asb to fill in the gaps I had about self-publishing and this is what she had to say:

“If you have a good book/game on your hands, self-publishing is far superior than going through CoG.

Patreon works well for some people, personally I don’t have the time/desire to make extra content.”

Steam asks for $100 to host your game, and I suspect the other storefronts might ask for similar prices. Steam pays you monthly, at the end of the following month. You get 70% of the sales and they pay you via bank transfer.

I talk about my contract here. I oc didn’t have to deal with storefronts because HG took care of that.

tl;dr be honest with what you want to get out of writing IFs. If you want to do it because there’s a story you want to share, then go ahead. If you’re doing it because you want lots of money, then maybe you’re better off finding a second job. The thing with IFs is sometimes you have an amazing game yet people don’t find it all that interesting, or they don’t like the premise so they don’t read it, or so many other things. And sometimes you’re lucky and/or write the sort of genre most players like and so your public grows and grows. It’s a coin flip away really, and I don’t know about you, but the only thing that kept me going, pushing to finish and publish TP was the excitement of my players, and my own love for the project.

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[zafiro-anyejo]

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[krimiqueer]

My humble contribution to the trending of Spatort with, as usual, some Google Translate shenanigans.

[tangledinink]

The Gemini twins are probably MUCH better fighters than they are in canon, huh.

Absolutely. These two kick ASS. They've been training in combat since they were eight, and that's absolutely been the main focus of their lives since then. They fight nearly every day. They have absolutely hideous amounts of experience under their belts and they are a force to be reckoned with.

[muirneach]

ive applied for like 7 jobs today please clap and cheer

[bluesdesk]

Hello people! As you might have read from my last post, I'm making a video game for university with a group of other students. We don't have to just make a game, but also make a research on what people would like to get in a new game, and opinions in general.

I made a form with some questions, it's anonymous and the only personal information we ask are age group, gender and spoken languages. I don't know how many people I will reach with this post, but it's really important, so please forgive me for adding many tags.

The form is in Italian, but I tried to translate it in English and other languages with Chrome and Edge, and they work quite well. Firefox instead makes some funny mistakes, but it's still readable. Of course, as this is a university form, I must ask you to not be a troll, thank u!

For linkeduniverse people, yes this is the same form I posted int he server there's no need to answer again!

The game we have in mind is an action-adventure (like Zelda) with some platformer elements: some boss fights look like those from Kirby or Smash Bros, and some are side scrolling fast sequences, like Sonic. You'll learn more about the idea in the form!

Thanks so much to anyone who fills it!

[fridayyy-13th]

a couple people understood my aro poem!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[sweetlikesunflowersandhoney]

i have zero (0) time or energy to write so of course now is when my brain brings me an au of my hyperfixation

[lesamis]

mary shelley is really so extraordinary. "little england" & "little englandism" became an entire political discourse in the late 1800s (best as i can tell from c. 1870 onwards) & denoted those - often, not always, anti-imperial - thinkers who advocated for economic isolationism and wanted to limit the british empire's expansion, administration, and aggression, maintaining that england was best when contained to its own borders. the term is still in use - nowadays in brexit contexts - and was throughout the entire twentieth century.

it is also, in much the same sense in which it'd come to be used fifty years after the novel's publication, somehow in The Last Man - which shelley finished writing in 1826.

The plague was in London! Fools that we were not long ago to have foreseen this. We wept over the ruin of the boundless continents of the east, and the desolation of the western world; while we fancied that the little channel between our island and the rest of the earth was to preserve us alive among the dead. It were no mighty leap methinks from Calais to Dover. The eye easily discerns the sister land; they were united once; and the little path that runs between looks in a map but as a trodden footway through high grass. Yet this small interval was to save us: the sea was to rise a wall of adamant—without, disease and misery—within, a shelter from evil, a nook of the garden of paradise—a particle of celestial soil, which no evil could invade—truly we were wise in our generation, to imagine all these things! But we are awake now. The plague is in London; the air of England is tainted, and her sons and daughters strew the unwholesome earth. And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. Other nations have a fellowship in death; but we, shut out from all neighbourhood, must bury our own dead, and little England become a wide, wide tomb.

[citrusinicake]



nothing screams cebuano quite like trying to google traditional textile patterns and getting search results for tourist destinations lmao

[rustencohle]

i'm so broke ???? had to get a bunch of my teeth fixed and now i am bankrupt and i have to get my hair done soon and buy christmas presents as well ????

[ulmus-spellook]

Just me venting about printer stuff

I'm out here creating notes on articles and collecting ones I want to use for notes, all on my computer (my book collection is a whole other thing) and so I have long ass word doccuments (I can never spell that word correctly -_-) that I need to organize and tabs open with articles that let you print them and the need to figure out how to turn ones you can't into a doc you can print (easy with wikipedia, so text dense, but when it's something with a lot of pictures that creates it's own problem) and I just have so much stuff I plan to print out and put in my binder-grimoire (as opposed to my notebook ones. The binder is nice because I can stick all sorts of stuff in it and keep re-organizing it afterwards), but I have a problem. I bought a new, relatively cheap, printer because the one I had been using broke and I had limited access to it (It was not my own) and setting it up keeps feeling overwhelming, but I have so much stuff that I'm like

^me going through articles online and trying to keep track of everything I need to print.

[orcelito]

Never played a Fate game or watched any of the animes really. But I started playing Fate/Samurai Remnant bc I wanted to play a hack n slash kinda game & it got generally good reviews (unlike ffxvi, the other game I was looking at for this wish of mine, which ppl continuously said was pretty but kinda shallow writing-wise)

I've been enjoying it. I've already learned some things about 1600s Japan. It's pretty neat!

[coricomile]

Dear Deep Night Special Episode,

Wela/Khemtid is still uninteresting on all counts, and I could have done without the clip show for 60% of the ~new episode.

Seji continues to be the only one I care about, and for a hot second I thought he was getting a third boyfriend, but it was just an insurance ad that kept going through to the next scene. I am sure groups of 20somethings often discuss putting their life insurance in their partner's name after a month or two of dating. ;__;

But thanks for all the softcore horny scenes being compiled together, and kudos to whoever on the subtitles team decided to change "host" to "PR manager".

[fahatesyou]

Just got horrible news about my dad´s health.

I can NOT HAVE ANYTHING GOOD IN MY LIFE, MY GOD.