So are you a basement dweller with aspirations to make some really great games, and of course, to make boatloads of money? Are you somehow cowed or otherwise intimidated by the fact that teams of developers make iconic titles like Halo 3, Half-Life, Final Fantasy, and other juggernauts? Concerned that your titles are just going to be awful sellers compared to those blockbusters?
Well worry not, because I found that even some of the most interesting and unique titles can make you tons of money. Take the game pictured on the right, for example. You have to wonder how much money the developers of this game made simply for depicting a stereotype over and over again in a party game format. You have to wonder how such a piece of valuable software such as this made it onto the market, though with all the bottle-opening, rifle-shooting fun it has to offer, it seems pretty obvious, right?
Lots of people like to call this stuff “shovelware”. I’d rather use the term “opportunity”, and by “opportunity”, I mean the chance to make a bunch of money for the kind of effort you would put into a bowel movement every day. I think that’s great, and a testament to the kind of effort that achieves dreams and moves mountains – well, mountains of crap, but mountains nonetheless.
I look forward to seeing your title in the bargain bin or subtly packaged with a more recognizable game in the very near future. Now get cracking, developers!