Re: Bad News for UK PBM players

From: vsim@xs4all.nl (vsim)

Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Quoting from: dbolton@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Dave Bolton")

> I disagree with your pricing. Not by a great deal, but generally things
 > in the UK (the subject of this thread) tend to be less expensive. I've
 > written a PBEM (with full mouse clicking GUI front end) with all
 > processing s/w and this has taken me about 12 months solid time.
 > I'd love to get $180,000 for a years work (even after the banks take
 > their %age off for conversion).

The project i mentioned was a game that took 3 years of development,
designing, programming, testing, playtesting, bug fixing and player
wishes adding. The programmer would have earned this amount of money
if he had a full paid job in the same time. So for a years job you
will receive $60000 and not $180000. From this income there goes about
45% to tax, insurances and fixed oncosts. [at least over here it is]

> I developed my first PBM in three months. The original Quest code (which
 > is probably 2-3 times the size now) was written in one year by me. Of
 > course it had a few bugs...

Did you build every game from scrap or did you use old code from
previous projects? If so then you should keep this in account also.
Quest btw isn't a game that can be compared with a other game before
you compare both of then. You can't compare the Atari Pacman with
then "7th Guesth" for example and say that Pacman only needed
3 month developing.

This was not ment to be a flame, just to make a point.

Bram.

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References

Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
vsim@xs4all.nl (vsim)
Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
dbolton@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Dave Bolton")
Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
vsim@xs4all.nl (vsim)
Sat, 03 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad News for UK PBM players
dbolton@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Dave Bolton")
Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0000