In an article titled Counting Rupees: Sustainable Indies, Joystiq examines the cost of Braid to Blow, how much he made, and how much he needs to make. He has sold 55K copies of the game, yielding $825K. After Microsoft’s cut, that’s $578K. The article suggests that he invested $180K of his own money and that the cost of the game was probably near $400K. That means he’s just breaking even now. For Blow to have enough money to make another game without having to take out loans, Braid would need to sell one million copies.
Category Archives: Gaming
Game Log
This past week I spent a lot of time on WoW again. The three of us did one final round in the 30-39 PVP bracket at level 40. Shadowform is nice! We also ran all four instances of Scarlet Monastery. I played some Pacman C.E. and beat Guitar Hero 3 in co-op as lead guitar. I’ve been playing some more of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games as well and just a little bit of Rhythm Tengoku Gold!
Badly Drawn Sonic
There’s a superb thread at my favorite forum, SelectButton, in which people post their terrible Sonic the Hedgehog drawings. Some of them are so terrible that they’re amazing. I really think there’s a lot of quality art here. It takes a devout Internetatarian to consider MS Paint art a viable style of art.
Fictitious Mario Game Box Art
Nintendo Wii Fanboy put a great gallery up of fan made box art for fictitious Mario games. Some of them are really great. Super Mario Streakers? Mario & Sonic Training for the Olympic Games? That game deserves a gold itself!
Space Invaders Attack WTC (a.k.a. Oh God Comments War)
Joystiq has a piece up about a game made as artistic commentary on the events of 9/11 and America’s response. The game is based on Space Invaders with the aliens attacking the World Trade Center buildings.
Taito has since responded by saying that the work was unauthorized and threatened legal action.
13-Hour Arena Match
God, more WoW news. Wowinsider also had an article today about a 13-hour arena match. That’s a long fucking time, but it doesn’t compare to that 18-hour long battle against a boss in FFXI that caused players to give up.
4G is a lot
Today Wowinsider talked about a dagger called Blade of Eternal Darkness. The article wasn’t terribly interesting, but it does mention that this weapon that requires a minimum level of 49 “[s]ells to vendors for 4g 67s 96c (which isn’t a lot at 70, but is a whole lot of money at level 49)”. Excuse me, but 4.68g is definitely not a lot at level 49. What the fuck? Has it just been so long since these fuckers have actually played the game (because they obviously spend more time on forums and blogs) that they thing 4.68 gold is a lot? And the excuse that they’re already at level 70 doesn’t hold. Level 70s need alts.
Alliance Symbol on Shirt
A shirt from a cruise ship was found in Croatia with an interesting symbol on it according to Wowinsider. I wonder if it’s a fake or not.
Today I sliced an AT-ST in half
And it was so awesome!
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, September 16.
This Week’s Games
This week I finished up Braid and Guitar Hero Aerosmith by playing through every song. I’ve also been playing through Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on my DS, which is surprisingly fun. We’ve been PVPing of course, and this week we plan on finally hitting 40. I purchased Pacman C.E. (I know; I’m late), and I’m enjoying that as well. Amazing that they could reinvigorate such a classic title. Lastly, I started playing Rhythm Tengoku Gold last night, and it’s awesome! It’s a rhythm game that’s really about sound. I could close my eyes and continue to play. It’s a blast! Hopefully it gets localized.