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[MrVoltage]

First off. If this is in the wrong place, my bad, go ahead and delete it.(Maybe it should be in distributing games)

But anyway, I was downloading a few games. And this just pops into my head. I see so many people have tried to sell their games individually. Trying to get just their games distributed to stores and stuff. Thats great and all but how many, (if there are any) Ever tried getting a whole bunch of games that we made, (we as in GM Users) and distribute them as a pack. Ya know, instead of selling one title, sell like 10 titles in one pack and call it GMCollections or something like that. Just wondering because we have some many good games nowadays. I especially like Sand box of God and Jetz rampage. And I am soon to make a ground breaking one (hopefully). It would be cool if that would work.

Forever

[AlasdairDF]

Lots of people have also tried selling many games in a pack, I have tried this myself several times in the past in different ways.

If you're selling on the Net especially, you'll make more money selling individually with a demo to 'try before you buy'.

If you're selling in a collection then they can't test all games beforehand and so you will not be trusted if selling on the Net. This could work in stores, but it's unlikely you can convince any big-time shop to sell it and give you a reasonable deal.

[hpapillon]

Ever tried getting a whole bunch of games that we made

Oh, it's been tried dozens of times.

Or at least, SUGGESTED dozens of times.

Every single time, it falls apart very quickly for fairly obvious reasons - people who aren't organised enough to sell one game are certainly not able to handle the MUCH more complicated problem of negotiating between several different game makers, getting their games together, testing, streamlining, checking for copyright problems, dealing with the age and location status of all members, figuring out how to ensure fair division of funds, etc etc etc....

Selling a bundle of games you personally made is a possibility, but usually this is just an option on your store. Buy game A for $10, buy game B for $10, or take advantage of our special offer and get A+B for $15!

[MrVoltage]

Yea I think I'll just stick to making freware games. I just remember when I was a little kid I use to want good freeware games. I use to search far and far for good ones. I just want to fulfill that need for kids now, ya know. I mean the money is good and all but a small percentage of Gmakers will get their games on the road.. yep.

forever & Freeware Forever.

PS. I was 9 back then. Im 16 Now

PPS. Gamemaker for ever. Even when I perfect my c++. Ill teach my kids how to use gamemaker.

[Bear]

(off topic) Are you MAD??!!! GM6 is better!!!

[2D_Man]

know whatta be cool,if there was a site like audible only for gamemaker games.Or were you could subscribe and download a buch of the best of gamemaker games.I dunno just a thought.

[Harry]

yeh but u have got to realise that quite alot of gm games are crap!

if ur gonna sell games u need good ones like Purper, Sandbox of God, dunno abaot ROPW cos i havent played it dew to my firewall and it isnt working even af=rfter turning it of but people seem to like it. u want really good games RTS's would be good because there good even when there 2D like Purper, Red Alert, Red Alert 2,Age Of Empires ect. if u wanna sell a racing game these days it has to be 3D no other option or u wont sell it. (probobly i wouldnt buy it, it would have to be some hell of a game) so if u get say 200! of the best gm games BUT u cant take stuff like ROPW and the sandbox of god BECAUSE they are Freeware atm and peeps would get really annoyed if they found out that they could of got it for free but if u make good new ones say 200-300! gm games NEW not freeware or downloadable they might sell.

i dont know cos i have never tried.

[MrVoltage]

*Off Topic* Blah and Im not mad! You say GM6 Is better? Whoa it has a whole bunch of functions that i'll probably never use. I grew up on GM 4.3 and 5 so I will stay with it always. Plus I wont really have to wory if certain sucky computers will be compatible with mines. So it may be better attribute wise, but it still isnt made for the people. And wasnt Jetz 4 made in GM5? And its better than most of the GM6 games.

Anyways I want to start a site that has links to some of the best games. Maybe hold a contest....... Wait never mind. Usually when the makers hear the word contest, they usually want to win something big. Why cant they just be happy with being named one of the top 10 GM games of all times?

I might do it in 2005. Just Have a site, where every month we hold a competition where they must submit their LINK and have a whole bunch of people see which one wins for that month. I dont know it might work if I advertise a whole bunch. And then the winners can put they one the so called "GM: January Jamborie 2005* Competition

[Harry]

i prefur gm6

yeh but when us ay the best u gotta have the best ever there has to be vote.

BUT ONLY AND ONLY REALLY GOOD GAMES NO CRAPPY THINGS!

[MrVoltage]

yea my problem is how to find the est games out there. I mean, could try the submit and vote thing but that may not be the best Idea. Maybe there needs to be like a board of people that decide whether it is "the best game ever" quality. I download alot even though im on dial up so i could probaby review a lot of games under 5mb but there still are the big ones. Yea itll fill up my gm folder 2

[Dregnought]

the problem is how to find the best games out there

Exactly. Unless it's a mix of like 10 games for $5. but if it's like $5 a pop, it needs to be semi-decenet, which is where this fails.

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If you need to have a look at the quality of the games, have a look at some of the msm games. sure they sell theirs at a higher oprice then i would with gm games, but it gives u an idea.

Msm Games

Youll have to do a bit of searching, but i suggest u try bejeweled 2 as one of the games.

Edited by Dregnought, 17 December 2004 - 09:52 PM.

[Diveloperz]

I am soon to make a ground breaking one

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HAHA!
Very funny joke! I almost fell outa my chair!

You are a natural commedian.

[warrior]

Hey as long as I can get money off my crappy minigame I made a year ago I'm fine with the idea, www.geocities.com/coolsoftgames/minigame.zip thats not the version I would put in the game ofcource I would remake the graphics, the background and sounds and make it look much more professional and I would give the gmd to edit it too.

[Harry]

my favriote gm game is Purper as i love RTS's but i also like FPS's aswell they are both very good

[warrior]

yeh yeh but the guy who made purper isn't in this community I didn't even understand it, now what about my plan are we doing the package or not, you know that, that is not the version I'm going to use I just need to know if you guys are interested I mean is really easy to propose something but its alot harder to actually make it, I could propose to make a web of people to go selling games door to door but just because I say so doesn't mean its going to happen you know.

[Harry]

thats quite true is this gonna actully happen if not good luck

[Catdaemon]

purper is a great game, When i first saw it i was like "w t f............" hehe

[Harry]

lol! when i first played Purper i thought it was a laod of crap!

[Dregnought]

W T F is Purper??????? You gys keep talking aobut it but WHAT IS IT????????

[warrior]

Its like in the top of the old editable games how could you have never notice it.
Anyways the problem with purper is that its that everything is in dutch and it requires alot of videomemory and when I started playing it I didn't knoiw what was going on, in fact I still don't.
I'm not sure if that was the first rst like it says on the page though I remember medieval clash and that one is really old too, I wonder why the guy didn't make a vs mode he could of easly replaced the mouse with hotkeys.