The IGS organizers are continuing to put online key video lectures from this year’s Independent Games Summit, which took place at Game Developers Conference 2007 last March as part of the yearly Independent Games Festival - and which will again appear as part of GDC 2008 next February.
The eighth lecture is from Three Rings co-founder Daniel James, noted for his role in creating successful PC casual online title Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. His San Francisco-based company has also released Independent Games Festival prize-winner Bang! Howdy and is working on the user-created online game experience Whirled.
This talk features James’ caustic, battle-tested opinions on a variety of topics around online games and being an independent operator in the game business - and goes into notable detail regarding Three Rings’ monthly revenues and splits between products, as well as methods of growth and mistakes not to be made.
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October 18th, 2007 at 17:35 pm
I thought that this article was very interesting. Daniel goes into considerable depth about the issues facing developers making small scale or budget limited MMO games and the distribution, logistics, funding and operational points that he faced whilst making his own successful games. I thought this was a very relevant article considering the new fee-free prototype licence that Monumental offer which is directly targeted at start-up MMO developers.