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John Passfield has another game musings up on his website! Game Musing's #6 is definately a topic that a lot of you would be interested in. It's an encouraging nudge for local garage game developers who might think their days are numbered, when the truth is you have so much more opportunities than John and his crew had way back over a decade ago!...
"And what better time than now to get started in making these games! When Steve Stamatiadis, Rob Crane, Tony Ball and I wrote Halloween Harry in the early 1990?s shareware was in its formative years. The Internet wasn?t as prevalent as it is now; in fact most of our stuff was distributed via bulletin boards and floppy disks. And people were unwilling to give out their credit card details electronically. But Halloween Harry still managed to make quite a lot of money."
A modern day success story to prove John's point would be independant developers Gamehouse games, which
"generated over $10 million in revenue and $5.5 million of net income"
, doing downloadable puzzle games!! John Passfield's website can be viewed here. Be sure to email him with your thoughts!