I found this post by James Hamilton to Spielfrieks fascinating, as he talks about their business plan. He has obviously given a lot of thought about how to make games without losing a lot of money. It is interesting how he describes his investment in Age of Steam as only having produced:
a reasonable return on my investment
There is clearly almost no money in this business, if even a highly successful gamers game can only make reasonable returns.
It might help explain why Hannibal: Rome vs Carthage still cannot find a publisher.
Are you aware that your RSS feeds are not working? I haven’t read anything here for months because I didn’t know there was new content. Thanks for looking into it!
Thanks! It is really tough to keep tabs on everything. Neighbourly reports like this make a real difference.