How much Money my Game made (1 month)

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How much Money my Game made (1 month)

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In this video I detail how much money my game made on Steam in one month and what it actually means // Indie game revenue.
⚔️ Mortal Glory 2: store.steampowered.com/app/22...
💎 Patreon - All sales reports: / redbeakgames
⚔️ Chambers of Devious Design: store.steampowered.com/app/16...
⚔️ Mortal Glory: store.steampowered.com/app/10...
🧙 Discord: / discord
⭐ Twitter: / redbeakgames
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0:00 Gross revenue & wishlists
1:04 Copies sold, sales chart, regions
3:08 Patreon perks
3:36 What do the numbers mean?
8:11 Comparing to other games
11:23 Answering questions

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@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Hope the video was enlightening! Let me know what you think about the numbers. ⚔ Mortal Glory 2 on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2216660? 💎 Patreon - All sales reports & other perks: www.patreon.com/redbeakgames 💰 PREVIOUS MONEY VIDEOS 💰 How much Money my Game made in 1 month // Indie Game Revenue kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b96YjNqhl824kas.html How much Money my Game made in 2 years - Indie Game Revenue kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bceEbNeCyquZn3k.html Should You Make a DLC? // Indie Game DLC Revenue (+ Update on How Much Money My Game Made) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJ-ZbMygqNq4h5s.html How much Money my Game made in 1 year - Indie Game Revenue kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qs5lZLSqs5nFpnk.html

@shannenmr 4 ай бұрын

I am amazed Wanderbots didn't cover it (either for Nextfest or Release) when he covered number 1, did you do a mailout to the YT/Steamers as I only saw 2 I knew in the results ? I worry about DLC any time soon with a typical conversion rate of them, I feel like since you appear to "have something" a better strategy is update the game with bug fixes and minor things while working on a large content drop and use that as an excuse to reach out to all the YT'ers again and do another discount. (too bad you already did a 20% discount because I don't think your next discount will even notify your wish listers)

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@shannenmr I reached out to a lot of creators (including Wanderbots) but yeah MG2 didn't get as much coverage as the first one. I had a good attach rate with the DLC in MG1 so I'll likely go for the same strategy. It's still ways to go though and meanwhile I'll push out smaller updates and potentially a bigger update too.

@shannenmr 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev I have heard a few of the "Indie" YT'er like Wander and Splatter mention there is currently a lull in new games at the moment, it might be worth reaching out to the ones who didn't cover it (or just everyone) especially if you have a decent content drop, re-balancing pass or say controller support added etc. I assume you are just providing a key in the original email and not making them reply asking for it?

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@shannenmr Thank you for the encouragement. I have sent a bunch of different emails to the creators (to the point that I'm going to wait until major new content before trying again), but most are hard to reach or at least get a response from. Splatter actually already made a video about MG2, but there was an issue with the video so he deleted it quite soon after posting. It was a bummer, but I understood his decision.

@Game_Studio-w9p 14 күн бұрын

@@AuroDevcan you try my game? My name game is "The Another World"

@CodeMonkeyUnity 4 ай бұрын

Congrats on a successful launch!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@SeahorseGames 4 ай бұрын

Happy to see that you outsold devious designs in 3 days, must've been a relief! Looking forward to the next project man

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! It definitely helped me overcome the financial trauma from CoDD :D

@Don-zo3ts 4 ай бұрын

Seahorse Why aren't you making New Devlog's

@SeahorseGames 4 ай бұрын

@@Don-zo3ts I’m not making anything atm. Was making games when I was studying but now I have a full time job so it’s harder to have the motivation for gamedev after a full day of programming. I still want to make games, but I don’t know when I’ll start again

@Don-zo3ts 4 ай бұрын

@@SeahorseGames Yaaa man

@jorgetroublemaker8265 4 ай бұрын

As always very interesting. This shows how difficult and time consuming is making a videogame, especially as a solo developer. Contrary to the common belief, releasing a game doesn´t mean you are finished with it. Looking forward to your next project.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Yep, it's very tough... I hope my future projects will sell as well.

@IdealIdleIncremental 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on achieving such great numbers! I've been following your channel for a long time and am really glad that your efforts have paid off.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@manmathpaste235 4 ай бұрын

commenting for the YT algo. It makes me happy and sad at the same time to see you follow your game dev dream but at the same time how difficult it is to make a living out of it. Respect

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's definitely not easy. But I hope the biggest hits are still ahead!

@dynaelder5037 4 ай бұрын

Keep coming up with the idea's. It only takes one good idea that people are drawn and your set for life

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

A good idea and a lot of work! :D I already got some fun ideas and I want to work on though! Just need to choose the best out of them.

@HussainAl--Khalil 4 ай бұрын

Really appreciate you being so open on these things. Helps other devs understand and have a better perspective of what is possible

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

@goragarxgamedev 22 күн бұрын

First of all, congratulations! It's a bit disheartening to see how on average a developer only gets around 40% of what their game generates. I know numbers mean extremely different things when you are trying to run a business, pay the bills, and provide to your family, but in my eyes 8k sales in the first month as an indie is great and you should be proud of yourself. Keep up the good work!

@AuroDev 22 күн бұрын

Thank you! It's true that the numbers mean different things for different people. 8k in a month is huge for me too, but on Steam the first month is usually a lot lot bigger than the following months and then for most games it just keeps constantly going down so I always try to also consider what the numbers mean for future sales (+ trying not to be optimistic so I won't be let down later on :D).

@deanthedev 4 ай бұрын

Such an honest person... i love your content, and you deserve all the support we can do. You're the best, and keep it up!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@deanthedev 4 ай бұрын

@AuroDev I watched your video twice, but I still didn't get it. Like your actual income was 30% of the whole gross income? Or I misunderstood it again.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@deanthedev It gets a bit tricky because there are so many steps and some are just estimates. But yeah, for the first month, the estimate for my personal earnings (= not what the company I own gets, but what I as an individual would get) is 35% of the total gross. The percentage will be higher in future as the expenses stay the same while the gross keeps growing. The personal net number is also just a theoretical estimate since I could just a well keep all the money in the company that I own. So it's tricky again because the rules are different depending if the money is on my own personal bank account or if it's in the bank account of the company I own.

@deanthedev 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev thanks for the detailed information. I really appreciate it.

@herbert9039 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing the numbers and your thoughts, I wish you all the best! :)

@elmarulian 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations! Also these kind of videos are reeeeeeally helpful, many thanks for all the insights you provide with your experience

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@andydom729 4 ай бұрын

Congrats on the release and glad it met you expectations on early sales. I know how much work it takes to make a game like this (I'm currently doing just that). So to get it all done and released is a great achievement. Hoping your sales continue and you get everything you need to continue in game development.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I hope so too. Best of luck with your game also!

@dougdeming3115 4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad that your game did this well, I bought MG1 and enjoyed it thoroughly. I haven't gotten MG 2 because I'm currently super busy myself on my own project as well as raising kids and all that other jazz I just don't have time to jump into something new right now. But, I hope it continues to provide value to you and hope you can make your next project with much greater ease.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I definitely feel you on the lack of time thing. I get about an hour of spare time each day so it's hard to find the energy and time for new things.

@DavidReidChannel 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations my friend. Those are great numbers for your first month. It's very informative to see Gross versus Personal income. Thanks for sharing, hope the sales keep coming in.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, happy to hear!

@ludomancerstudio 4 ай бұрын

Congrats for the release! And thank you for sharing such valuable info!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MideyDev 4 ай бұрын

Congrats on releasing another one, being able to do this 3 times is incredible!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! There will be more to come!

@joshuanyamori 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your Transparency. I Enjoy these a lot.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Nice to hear!

@freedomofspeech2100 2 ай бұрын

Good job man! Keep it up :)

@roargames_ 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing all of this. Congrats for the release and keep it up ! 💪

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@mario_actually 4 ай бұрын

Happy to see you are happy with the results. Wish you a healthy long tail for the game. Very thankful that you are so open with your numbers on here.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jexilef 4 ай бұрын

Great video Auro, thanks for being open so open and transparent about your process and its results. Very inspiring!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, happy to hear that!

@freecash3474 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information it is always fun to watch revenue videos and it is informative as well

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Happy to hear it was useful!

@slarbu 4 ай бұрын

Nice video! Let's hope the success continues with updates and DLCs

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I hope so!

@BlueJayGaming 4 ай бұрын

Congrats man! been following the channel since your MG1 videos and it's awesome to see how far you've come. I can't imagine how much a relief it was to see MG2 be such a success, especially with a growing family in your hands. Would love to see the marketing video btw!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, that's great to hear! I hope I'll have time for the marketing video, but I probably have the least amount of spare time now that I have ever had so it's still uncertain.

@BlueJayGaming 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev Totally understand that, good luck either way! I'll be looking forward to your next project whenever/whatever it'll be!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@BlueJayGaming Thank you! Can't wait to start working on the next one!

@AnimalPersonhood 4 ай бұрын

It's super helpful to get insight into your business thoughts and breakdown, and inspiring that you are making & releasing games. 🔥🔥 Thanks for sharing!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that!

@HurlyBurlyStudios 3 ай бұрын

Congrats on the successful launch and thanks for putting up this video. I always find your insight useful. Cheers!

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, that's great to hear!

@MaxAngor 4 ай бұрын

I hope my coverage helped. I'm up to 24 hours played. I greatly appreciate the tooltip scaling and all the inherent accessibility you put into it. If you release that DLC, let me know and I'll cover it again.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I'm happy that you have enjoyed the game!

@marcialartiom9180 4 ай бұрын

You deserve it Auro, good work and congrats! And as always, super useful videos!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MarcWithaC-BlenderAndGameDev 4 ай бұрын

I opened Chambers of Devious Design while I was adding build mechanics to my game to see how you implemented it, and I ended up playing a few games. CoDD is very polished and professional. It's not the type of game I usually play, but it's fun to hop into and play a quick game. Mortal Glory isn't my cup of tea, but at least I can help you out with the KZfaq algorithm a bit. Plus this was another informative video. Hopefully your trend of increasing success will continue.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's always nice to hear from people who like CoDD!

@BradleyChick 4 ай бұрын

Congrats man! Ive played it a bit and plan on more! It's a great time!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@bazyt1 4 ай бұрын

Impressive!! & thanks for sharing your numbers so openly.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rasulseidagul 4 ай бұрын

Good job man! To me it looks like a success. Keep it up ✊ Thank you for the insights.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@zhengistasbolatov8480 4 ай бұрын

Hey! Thank you for sharing this. I'm planning to release my game later this year, and after spending 4 years making it, I hope it will break even at least. Good luck with your future projects!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Best of luck with the release!

@PatrickTheDM 4 ай бұрын

Nice! I'm happy to see your game did well.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@zneeke 4 ай бұрын

Great video! I wish you success!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@eloctopusmakesgames 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations! You are doing really well! Being a solo game developer is quite hard, so great job!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@razorbei 4 ай бұрын

Congrats on the release!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@somefishhere 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for being so transparent!

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

No problem!

@zillo_games 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! :) Congrats on the release and numbers - happy to see that it did better than CODD.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@durvids474 4 ай бұрын

Good stuf! Congrats on the sales!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@calvinms7503 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing. This is very inspiring.

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that!

@TechGladiator 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on your success! I hope that my upcoming project will be half as successful! It doesn’t make you rich by no means but it enables you to survive and keep making more games!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I hope so too!

@leight9503 4 ай бұрын

Congrats - you did really well!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@xjuliussx 4 ай бұрын

good luck and be strong, also for the future of your family!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@aproblem6ix889 4 ай бұрын

Do you remember how many wishlist u had with chambers of devious designs befor launch? Love your videos so much bro 💙

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Great to hear! I had 3.7k for CoDD.

@aproblem6ix889 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev Thanks 👍💙

@Blackmamba136 4 ай бұрын

Happy to see your have success in your first month. Stay positiv! Greetings from Germany.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@ImilkowskiDev 3 ай бұрын

Congrats! Very inspiring man 😁

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@xbmarx 4 ай бұрын

Followed you through two releases now, happy for your success! And for whatever it's worth, I thought CoDD was great! :D

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Awesome! That's great to hear! CoDD does have a higher review score than MG2 so I guess it's canon that it is the better game :D

@NatiCartoons 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations, Auro ! Thank you for sharing it with us ! I'm wishing you big success for the future ! 🙏🙌. Looks a bit harsh to see what percentage of the sales the developer gets at the end 😩

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, it's not easy to get that profit!

@kltorvanger 4 ай бұрын

Good job Auro 🎉 Keep on developing 😊❤

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, will do!

@FeniksGaming 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on successful release well done.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@oriolcosp805 4 ай бұрын

Hey Auro, thanks for sharing! Your videos are always inspiring and have helped in my journey :D. I have a question for you: Did you reach out to any Chinese content creators, or was all of this organic?

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Happy to hear! I did reach out to Chinese creators on BiliBili, but I don't think it had a big effect. I think it was almost all organic as I already had a big Chinese playerbase from MG1.

@dmangamesSTUDIO 4 ай бұрын

Hopefully the trend of successful game will continue for you my friend!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I hope so!

@anispinner 4 ай бұрын

Awesome stats! Interesting to see how many Chinese are loving your Mortal Glory series.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I still remember the first peak of Chinese players I got in MG1. Was really exciting to see that!

@LaymensLament 4 ай бұрын

ha i played and liked the first one. thank you for sharing this info, very interesting!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, happy to hear that!

@xirtus 4 ай бұрын

good economic break down, great game design, epic finnish black pilling, its a good thing I'm a slav or that might have been depressing but for me I loved it. Ill join the discord maybe you can talk about your game on my show

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@SmithOlivia-xj1ln 4 ай бұрын

In fact, there are many Chinese players whose Steam is located in other regions, and due to various reasons such as price and creative workshop lockdown, I wish your game a great success

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Beologe 4 ай бұрын

Thank you soooo much for this video, i love mortal glory :D awesome games

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm happy to hear you like MG and I hope you get to try the second one!

@Markus-Creative 4 ай бұрын

Very good informative video, thank you. I'm about to release my first Steam game and it has helped me to lower my expectations and be realistic. 😄How much do you pay for social security and pensions in Finland? Shouldn't you also take that into account, or did you include it under expenses? I wish you much success!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you and best of luck with your game! I pay for the social security & pensions, but that is another rabbit hole entirely. It's not directly related to the costs and profits of MG2 so I didn't include those in. But yeah, those will also eat into the profits among other business costs I have.

@poskitrol 4 ай бұрын

Nice that you got it done. Your info will help many small devs / hobbists realize how tough the market is like

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I hope so!

@user-jv6dw4ny1d 3 ай бұрын

Keep going bro

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

Will do!

@pirateguitarrr 4 ай бұрын

Howdy fellow dev, 35% net sure is brutal but I'm glad to hear that you had a pretty strong release month. Funny as it is, I think this sort of gross revenue is probably top 1% of indies out there, if not even rarer. Congrats!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, numbers like mine are definitely on the upper end. The majority of games making close to 0 probably skews the numbers a lot though!

@ConradProteus 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations Auro!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Tortuap 3 ай бұрын

Congrats on releasing your third game! It's an achievement by itself!!

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@lc-rossi 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Congrats for the launch!! (In my country, the government would take 27,5% after the steam cut 😬💀)

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Ouch! In my country they could also take a lot more if I didn't have my company or if I just immediately withdrew it all.

@ilPrinni 4 ай бұрын

I'm very happy to hear the game did well! Your an awesome dev, love the content it really keeps me motivated working on my own stuff seeing someone also going through the indie trials. I was wondering, if you put your games on sale, during either a big sale or just randomly have you noticed significant spikes (I've heard that if you put a game on sale for 20% or more it emails every wishlister). I was wonder that if you do do that would you make a video of it summarizing if there was a spike and how large it was? It's something I'm curious about. Again great video, and great game

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, that's great to hear! The sales always result in some sort of spikes. Usually they are small spikes, but some will be bigger. I don't really have any great insight or secret tips on that topic, but basically I think it comes down to the visibility of the sale (is it on front page of Steam), how exclusive it is (are you among 100 games or 1000 games), what your placement is in the sale (is your game the first one that's shown on the sale page or is it on page 5) and what your discount% is. I don't think about it too much and just try to participate in everything I can.

@ilPrinni 4 ай бұрын

@AuroDev awesome to know. Thanks for the response!

@osmanerenkose6692 4 ай бұрын

Good job man! Also, I wonder how you're able to get a lot of revunue with around 10k wish lists. There are games with more wishlists and make less in revenue

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's hard to say what the reason is exactly. But enough early sales to get on the new & trending certainly helps to make those first days count a lot.

@KillrobPlays 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on releasing a solid sequel! What you didn't mention is the 88% positive reviews :) that will help the long tail you're hoping for. Obviously the game that the players expected, unlike in the case of CoDD. The breakdown of the numbers is great, thanks for that. Best of success with what comes next!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! A long tail would be a blessing!

@AwesomeAnimals24 4 ай бұрын

Great video, it's always interesting to see how much money indie devs make. I'm just curious why do you think you have so many sales in China?

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I don't really know any special reason. I remember that when I added Chinese localization to MG1, I got an immediate spike from China and they have been a big portion of my playerbase ever since.

@rjose705 4 ай бұрын

Love how you can still make games! I hope you don't abandon the Mortal Glory IP. This type of game would do really good in an asynchronous multiplayer format, I hope you make something like that, it'd be really successful!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I'm keeping all options open, but I get bored working on the same idea for a long time so I need to switch it up again. I also learned that making sequels is kind of a double-edged sword because while you get an existing fanbase, there's also a lot of expectations and you can't make everyone happy. I could easily see myself getting back to Mortal Glory in a future project though!

@rjose705 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev Hopefully you do. Let us patrons in on your next game though ;)

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@rjose705 Will do :)

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@CloudlessStudio 4 ай бұрын

I recently released a game with 40 wishlists and by some miracle a crap load of streamers covered it which led to a lot of sales. I think that is the biggest takeaway

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Awesome! Your sales per wishlist ratio must be out of this world.

@CloudlessStudio 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev I sold around 1500~ so yeah it’s insane. Also gained over 1k wishlists

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@CloudlessStudio Very nice, congrats!

@wach9191 4 ай бұрын

Hey, I bought and played your game last week, really good game! I left goot review.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Happy to hear you enjoyed it!

@DarkParadice 4 ай бұрын

Sheesh man. I've had mine out for 4 days short of a month and I've only made 4 sales, 2 of which were returned. Clearly I did everything wrong man. Congrats on the success! And also a big thanks because of your videos I was able to upload and get my game going on steam for a first time ever selling a game.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I am sorry to hear that. I'm sure you learned a lot from the experience though so if you continue making games, the next ones should have better chances of making more sales. It's a hard line of work to make money!

@BlueJayGaming 4 ай бұрын

don't lose hope, the fact that you got a game finished and put on steam means you've made it farther than a significant portion of indie game devs. every "failure" is a win if you take the time to learn from it. good luck on your next project!

@DarkParadice 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev I did. I always get better project to project. But this was the first time ever trying to sell one. I learned the process, picked up easier ways to do it through your videos for future projects. It is rough though starting out. @BlueJayGaming Appreciate it! Yeah, my next project will for sure learn from this one and hopefully do better. I'm hoping sales is just like the process I had for game design; every project gets better and better so I'm hoping sales do too.

@AndrisGameDev 4 ай бұрын

This is nearly two times more compared to what CT earned in its first 30 days Early-Access back then! (gross 35,256). Thanks for the transparency and the video!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Wow! I hope MG2 will have as great of a tail of sales as CT has had. It's unlikely but anything even close to similar would be a blessing!

@antondavydov2610 4 ай бұрын

hey bro, thanks for sharing the numbers. Try to make more localization languages and reach more than 500 reviews asap, it can bring you more page visibility by steam algorithms

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Getting to 500 reviews is quite a task! I hope I'll get there at some point though.

@antondavydov2610 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev best of luck, hope you can make it : )

@SLAM_AWAY_GAMES 4 ай бұрын

Great numbers! But I guess it depends on a country you live in (basically your expenses). For a Finland with median salary 3.2k euro it's enough to keep you "stable/comfortable with some hopes", for me in Ukraine with median salary 400-500 dollars and much lower expenses on food/apartment etc. those numbers would be super great! Great blog, looking forward for new videos!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Indeed, that's a very good point to take into consideration. With a low cost of living, game sales will go a long way.

@samoldfield9997 4 ай бұрын

I wish you best and success in life brother I am also a gameDev and trying to be successful in Game industry. best wishes

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you and best of luck with your game projects!

@DG-jq2jq 4 ай бұрын

also you could open company in Estonia and pay 0%(maybe i mistaken) CIT and for PIT it still will be your Finish rate

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I'm not super familiar with the different arrangements like that, but I know some people do that over here. Another trick would be to establish a separate holding company that owns my main company, which would allow to withdraw more money from the company with less taxes. But I don't want to invite more bureaucracy to my life right now. I am still dealing with relatively small sums of money too so the extra hassle does not seem worth it currently.

@kantallive 4 ай бұрын

Great numbers for a solo dev. Bravo.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@isatche 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@collinvisser7108 4 ай бұрын

Well done - I hope this game has a long tail -

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I hope so too!

@Hazzel31337 4 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

No problem!

@diantarts5442 4 ай бұрын

this is just to help the algorithm. Good video tho

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it!

@Poltergeist88 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations! I knew that mg2 would have sold well.. I think that with a reworked visual it would have sold a lot, but I know it coukd have cost you a lot of money.. did you thought about changing art assets or just gone straight to programming?

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

It crossed my mind, but as you said, it could have cost a lot of money and I didn't really have any great ideas how to make the art better than in MG1 so I decided to stick with the same.

@branidev 4 ай бұрын

Congratz anyway Auro, huge success but again depends which country you are from i mean in UK this would be minimum wage kinda of money and in Poland you would be very happy get this amount so i wonder, maybe you said it in one of your videos before which country you are based.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

I am from Finland and it's not a huge amount of money here. But for one month it's still a lot and over the lifetime of the game I expect it to be a good return for the 17 months of work I put into it.

@Volt-Eye. 4 ай бұрын

I always feel something is off with system. If after my hard work I gain only 35 out of 100 then ....... 🤬🤬🤬 the system and Futile taxes.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Yeah... Just need to work 3 times harder :D

@voon7820 4 ай бұрын

Congrats. Happy with that. I think with first month number, you can estimate the net lifetime number by x5? USD 250k per game made within a year is real success.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I think $250k could be realistic over the game's lifetime and I would be very happy with that. Impossible to say at this point though as the first month can be very skewed.

@xAjido 4 ай бұрын

You mentioned you think the prequel helped boost Mortal Glory 2, any way to tell by how much? If MG2 was a standalone game with a different name, how much lower do you estimate the sales would be? Also, did you see any boost to sales of Mortal Glory 1 with the release of the sequel? Congrats on the successful launch!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Hard to say for sure how much being a sequel helped. I can see that ~36% of the players own MG1 so there are a lot of new players also. Could be that getting the early boost from MG1 fans helped trigger the algorithm though. I had MG1 deeply discounted during the launch so I got a lot of sales for MG1 too but hard to say how many were thanks to MG2.

@mohammedalbawardi5793 4 ай бұрын

Not gonna lie, this inspired me. Cant wait for you to open your own video game company. Once you do keep me in mind 🙄

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

That's great to hear! Heh, I don't think I will have employees any time soon. It's a big risk so I would only do it if I had a lot of spare money in the bank and extra time to spare (more time needed to manage everything).

@tejaswithme3713 4 ай бұрын

Yt algo, here you go! Love from India 🇮🇳

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it!

@DG-jq2jq 4 ай бұрын

Taxes is such a scam 😭 Since I pay myself a salary I die inside every month. Good video!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Everyone wants a piece of the pie!

@lux3512 4 ай бұрын

Chambers of Devious Design is a great game so you should not feel like it was a faliure at all. It's a shame it didn't sell but it's one of the best board game conversions ever made. I have 32 hours in it so far and I'm not done yet. I beat the whole game on hard and now I'm working my way through master difficulty.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, that's really nice to hear! I also really like the game. Technically & design-wise I achieved exactly what I was aiming for. But unfortunately since making games is my only income source now, I need to heavily consider the financial aspect also. Financially it was basically like working a minimum wage job for 17 months. But I still learned a lot from it and it's always nice to hear when people like it so at least it's not all bad!

@MapletreePaper 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev A game can be a financial failure and still be a good product. CoDD is an example of that. 👍

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@MapletreePaper True!

@miranda2000 5 күн бұрын

buying my copy now :)

@AuroDev 5 күн бұрын

Awesome, I hope you enjoy it! :)

@arthurklause5251 3 ай бұрын

do you advice creating a specific steam account for the steam work stuff ? or can I use the account I use for gaming? thanks.

@AuroDev 3 ай бұрын

I would create a separate account.

@RewdanSprites 4 ай бұрын

Well done AuroDev. You deserve it. Edit: It's well known the corporations take so much. Such a shame really for artists but still well done. Further edit: I do have one question actually. Did localisation cost a lot? How did you go about that?

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

Regarding the localization, it's the biggest cost. The prices vary a lot, but for me it was ~$1000 per language + few were free thanks to awesome fans. I just contact individual translators directly and ask them.

@RewdanSprites 4 ай бұрын

@@AuroDev Oh. That's interesting. I had a localisation company contact me before but it was very pricey iirc. Thanks.

@AuroDev 4 ай бұрын

@@RewdanSprites Localization companies will make it easier to manage the whole thing, but it will cost more. I haven't used them myself.