Breaking the Long Silence
So, after some weeks now, I’m posting again.
Wire Whizz is very nearly complete, so there is a nominal web presence on the Bovine Software page - nominal, because I don’t have time at present to build a full and visually interesting web site! More on that can happen when the game is complete and submitted.
Bovine are now on Twitter as well (http://twitter.com/BovineSoftware) so much more traffic will be happening on there (I hope!).
Progress is good, but slow…
It’s likely that the first level pack named ‘Classic Wires’, will contain 20 levels and retail for £1.19. This goes somewhat against my theory of pricing things to make a profit, but I think that this is a fair price for the level of enjoyment this pack will bring. I plan to do some other smaller and larger packs at lower or higher prices. Getting even a single level right, in terms of difficulty and gameplay, is quite time-consuming - some levels have taken me around 6 hours to create and test nominally and will doubtless take longer to perfect. Still, the light is visible at the tunnel’s end as I now have nineteen levels out of the twenty, though the last could be a hum-dinger! Equally, some levels have taken me hour an hour, but clearly, those are the simpler ones.
My erstwhile, unpaid beta tester is scheduled to provide some feedback that either can, or cannot be incorporated at this late stage but will be useful none-the-less - this is the first time anyway has played the game, while the constraints of a game, such as time and health have been in place - previous incarnations allowed you to play and lose energy infinitely!
That’s all for now. The process is reaching an end, and I will doubtless write a postmortem shortly afterward. I have not decided whether I will publish any sales figures at this stage, but I think this sort of info is useful for developers in the same boat as me, so I’ll see what I can do - if not sales figures, perhaps some indication of how sales are going and how price changes or other factors might, in my view, have influenced the volume of sales