payment

Discussion in 'Developer Services and Trade' started by conrem, May 3, 2009.

  1. conrem

    conrem Well-Known Member

    Mar 29, 2009
    435
    0
    0
    developer + student at medicine
    Moldova
    Hello to all the developers :)

    How much are you paid and where are you from?

    Thanks, hope this is not a problem to answer to such questions :eek:
     
  2. Kris Jones

    Kris Jones Well-Known Member

    Mar 21, 2009
    1,012
    0
    0
    Producer/Publisher/Designer of Mobile Games
    America
    You made Bow Man.

    How much did you get paid? You tell us first. :)
     
  3. dogmeat

    dogmeat Well-Known Member

    Apr 6, 2009
    1,680
    2
    0
    Information Security Engineer
    San Francisco, CA
    Kind of an odd and unprofessional question to ask out in the open, you'll find most people aren't going to share information like this easily.

    Are you doing research for something or just wondering how your competitors are fairing?
     
  4. ThomasP

    ThomasP Well-Known Member

    Mar 29, 2009
    240
    0
    0
    Artist/Developer
    MI, USA
    #4 ThomasP, May 4, 2009
    Last edited: May 5, 2009
    Agree with Dogmeat. It's highly unlikely that people just share their sales numbers publicly on a forum like this one here. Ask in private or do a search on via google. Some folks share their "numbers".


    Thomas
     
  5. gscal

    gscal Well-Known Member

    Feb 24, 2009
    1,679
    7
    0
    SF Bay Area
    I though it was CommanderData's game...?
     
  6. Shocked

    Shocked Well-Known Member

    Apr 19, 2009
    443
    5
    0
    Why do older people hide their sales? I'll happily say I make eight dollars an hour at the supermarket..

    Btw, I'm not 18 so don't think I live off that, LOL..
     
  7. Kris Jones

    Kris Jones Well-Known Member

    Mar 21, 2009
    1,012
    0
    0
    Producer/Publisher/Designer of Mobile Games
    America
    #7 Kris Jones, May 5, 2009
    Last edited: May 5, 2009
    Plenty of developers show their sales. Ethan Nicholas, developer of iShoot, said sales reached "400,000" and over $800,000 for him last month. Firement just released their financial statement showing off over $500,000 in sales in 3 weeks. Pocket God creators told us $350,000 recently. Brian Greenstone of Pangaea Software enjoys talking about the millions he makes from his games.

    Some of it is because of "bragging rights" and other part is to demonstrate what can be made as an iPhone developer.
     
  8. Zincous

    Zincous Well-Known Member

    Dec 23, 2008
    4,567
    46
    36
    Sacramento, CA
    Steve Demeter (Trism) shared his numbers for his first two months "250,000" also
     
  9. conrem

    conrem Well-Known Member

    Mar 29, 2009
    435
    0
    0
    developer + student at medicine
    Moldova
    well, if somebody doesn't want to say - than let them talk about smth different :) and that's all ))
     
  10. CommanderData

    CommanderData Well-Known Member
    Patreon Indie

    Rogue Touch *is* my game, but Dogmeat's helping to spread the word a bit. Just like Lord Gek did recently. However, something for the rumor mill- Dogmeat is doing some sample artwork for me towards an upcoming game idea for me... No details yet, as it'll be a ways out before I have time to program it but it will be a bit more action oriented. I'll leak more info in the future :D

    Dogmeat, send me an e-mail today when you can ;)

    On the topic, you'll likely only find details about the few people on either end of the curve. There are posts about it here and at iPhoneDevSDK. You can find out about Trism, iShoot, and more recently the Flight Control game. These people all have something to be proud of. And then you have the other end of the spectrum (cant remember the poor guy's name/game) where they invested $34,000 in a game idea, and only sold in the hundreds of copies.

    Most people aren't willing to talk about this stuff openly.
     
  11. conrem

    conrem Well-Known Member

    Mar 29, 2009
    435
    0
    0
    developer + student at medicine
    Moldova
    Well, what can I say CommanderData, those people are great, by I am talking about middle games and about people that are just working for someone.

    thanks)
     
  12. Kris Jones

    Kris Jones Well-Known Member

    Mar 21, 2009
    1,012
    0
    0
    Producer/Publisher/Designer of Mobile Games
    America
    Like I said, tell us about your earnings. That may loosen some lips.
     
  13. conrem

    conrem Well-Known Member

    Mar 29, 2009
    435
    0
    0
    developer + student at medicine
    Moldova
    #13 conrem, May 7, 2009
    Last edited: May 7, 2009
    Ok, so now, all i can say that as a simple dev less than 5k :) a month
    Depends on what projects I make. Sometimes less than 2k.
    As I said, all depends on the projects I make)
     
  14. Kris Jones

    Kris Jones Well-Known Member

    Mar 21, 2009
    1,012
    0
    0
    Producer/Publisher/Designer of Mobile Games
    America
    But the Bow man game was up at number 2 or 3 in the US and you are telling me less than 5k per month? Something isn't adding up.
     
  15. nooobynick

    nooobynick Well-Known Member

    Jan 5, 2009
    458
    0
    0
    Ya, I'm pretty sure you have to sell about 30,000-40,000 a day to be that high...
     
  16. Kris Jones

    Kris Jones Well-Known Member

    Mar 21, 2009
    1,012
    0
    0
    Producer/Publisher/Designer of Mobile Games
    America
    Actually, closer to 8,000 copies per day, but still that is a great amount of money.
     
  17. nooobynick

    nooobynick Well-Known Member

    Jan 5, 2009
    458
    0
    0
    apparently i got a wrong number from somewhere... lol
     
  18. Kris Jones

    Kris Jones Well-Known Member

    Mar 21, 2009
    1,012
    0
    0
    Producer/Publisher/Designer of Mobile Games
    America
    Hah. I am only assuming, since the top place earns only about 15,000 downloads per day. :)
     
  19. nooobynick

    nooobynick Well-Known Member

    Jan 5, 2009
    458
    0
    0
    It was probably an article about some app because $5 app x 8,000 a day=40,000
     
  20. conrem

    conrem Well-Known Member

    Mar 29, 2009
    435
    0
    0
    developer + student at medicine
    Moldova
    about 15 000 per day. we took the 2nd place in the top paid apps.
     

Share This Page