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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: idolminds on Thursday, June 04, 2009, 06:30:21 PM

Title: Jordan Mechners dev journals from the original Prince of Persia
Post by: idolminds on Thursday, June 04, 2009, 06:30:21 PM

Link (http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/page/30/)

I started at the "beginning", since they go backwards. Really interesting to read, especially things like...

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And… the games business is drying up. Karateka may make me as little as $75,000 all told, and it’s at the top of the charts. There’s no guarantee the new game will be as successful. Or that there will even be a computer games market a couple of years from now."

Kind of puts into perspective these new games today with their huge budgets that they can't seem to make back despite selling a million copies.

Anyway, the oldest post is July 4, 1985 and goes to July 18, 1990.

Title: Re: Jordan Mechners dev journals from the original Prince of Persia
Post by: MysterD on Thursday, June 04, 2009, 06:44:20 PM

It'll never change, Idol.
Publishers will always get richer and richer, as the dev's get broker and broker.
Only way to turn the table is for the dev's to also become publishers -- like Valve did.