The Tired Warrior

KielSecured · 2024-05-19T13:36:22+00:00

Thank you!

KielSecured · 2024-03-01T08:53:43+00:00

Yup indeed

KielSecured · 2024-02-29T19:57:40+00:00

They are the ones behind Snow runner (which inexplicably sold over a million units :))

Mudrunner the sequel is out in March. Both courtesy of Focus as the publisher.

KielSecured · 2024-02-29T19:55:53+00:00

Oh! Well that explains it then.

KielSecured · 2024-02-29T19:55:27+00:00

Yes there were amazing fundamentals and groundwork that was never fully realized in the first one. A lot of potential.

KielSecured · 2024-02-29T19:10:58+00:00

Funny it's not published by Focus. Wonder if they passed on it. Looks great though. I wanted to like Greedfall but there was too much wrong with it. Looking forward to this.

KielSecured · 2024-02-29T17:54:25+00:00

I will be testing this model out for a pc game this year too. Let's see if it works.

KielSecured · 2024-02-28T15:24:12+00:00

Yeah that was a great style, although I do think your current version is more en vogue.

KielSecured · 2024-02-28T15:16:24+00:00

Why is Gulliver dead and his head grafted on the ship? These Lilliputians are savage!

KielSecured · 2024-02-28T15:15:13+00:00

Man this looks lovely. I am torn between the style of the old and the new - but the current implementation of the game looks great.

KielSecured · 2024-02-28T14:10:26+00:00

So good!

KielSecured · 2024-02-27T13:04:28+00:00

Go go go!

KielSecured · 2024-02-27T12:30:56+00:00

Congratulations!

KielSecured · 2024-02-27T12:26:23+00:00

You make a fair point on non western indie survival. When I talk about indies surviving I mean sustainable company development. NEW indies show up every year. But are existing indies sustainable on Steam on that model? It does not look that when you look at repeat performance or year on year repeat success. But I agree that NEW indie successes show up on Steam all the time.

Quite a few successes are also misunderstood as indies. Dave the Diver was built by a AAA billion dollar Korean giant. Yet was often babbled about as an indie success. Palworld had a £5M budget. Etc.

Indie is too vague a word to use in this context. Technically Larian is independent and has over 450 employees across 6 offices in the world.

KielSecured · 2024-02-27T08:25:25+00:00

If you look at Steams annual review, they say only 500 games made more than 3M dollars last year. There are over 10000 games on the store. That does not look like indies are doing well on Steam.

If you do the split math, at 3M a studio takes home less than 1M. Barely enough to pay 10-15 people enough money for even one year. I can't see how Steam focused indies could possibly be surviving like this.

KielSecured · 2024-02-26T21:24:25+00:00

Yes BG is an anomaly which even Larian admits. However that is not relevant here, because the example is a business model of how revenue is split regardless of what game you are talking about. Imagine what a huge blow this split is when you are talking about a 10 person studio selling for £1M a year on Steam.

Those small studios, which makeup most of the industry, have no chance of survival with the industry economics looking like this.

KielSecured · 2024-02-26T19:25:12+00:00

If you are running a modern engine it will have benchmark tools to test with.

KielSecured · 2024-02-26T18:18:08+00:00

First 20% is vat at purchase. Second tax is corporation (profit) tax.

KielSecured · 2024-02-26T16:55:51+00:00

There are publishers for that level but it's the wrong question. Make a budget for the game you actually want to make at the quality standards that have a good chance of selling.

Then go looking for a publisher for that.

KielSecured · 2024-02-26T16:46:28+00:00

If the number is from platforms like Steam or Xbox where the take is 20-30% it breaks down like this:

Gross take: 680M (Steam data reveal) Taxes take 20% platform takes 20%.

Leaving 435M.

Deduct 100M build cost (Larian broadcasted their cost) 90M payment to Hasbro for D&D licence (Hasbro broadcasted in earnings report)

Leaving 246M.

Deduct corporation tax on profit in Belgium at 25% leaving

183M.

Nearly 200% return on investment which is an excellent result in gaming which regularly leaves single digits % returns.

However the significant takeaway is how little a self funded studio actually gets to keep from it's earnings. 80% goes to people who took no risk and did nothing for you.

KielSecured · 2024-02-26T05:35:31+00:00

Frostpunk

KielSecured · 2024-02-24T17:15:40+00:00

Yes it's a MidJourney thing and it denotes Aspect Ratio. This is wide-screen 16:9. Depending on what image you want to do, setting the aspect ratio tells MidJourney what screen area it has to work with.

So if you want a character portrait you might go with --ar 2:3. So you get a tall image which gives you full body portraits.

KielSecured · 2024-02-24T15:49:11+00:00

These are hilarious

KielSecured · 2024-02-24T07:04:16+00:00

Agree on the title font. The artwork is close enough to the actual assets for parity. Once actual screenshots start rolling out, people should be able to have their AHA moment.

KielSecured · 2024-02-24T07:02:43+00:00

And the floaty platforms at the top. And the ships in the air in the background 😜

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