[casual_games] Advergames Production Budgets (was Risks ofusing OpenGL in casual games)

[Juan Gril]

And I think it's useful to clarify that average budget refers to a project
where a big part of the game engine has been developed before and a big
chunk of the work is customization. That's how most advergames are done
anyway. Creating a web game from scratch costs more money.

Let's not shoot ourselves in the foot guys :).

Thanks,

Juan


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Kevin Larson <kevin at chewysoft.com> wrote:


> I concur with John's assessment, having created advergames since the

> late '90s. Despite all of the buzz around advertising and online games,

> the actual budgets for development are not as large as you would think.

>

> Kevin Larson

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of John Foster

> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:47 PM

> To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'

> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Advergames Production Budgets (was Risks

> ofusing OpenGL in casual games)

>

>

> I've been involved in the production on many hundreds of advergames, and

> the

> production budgets of these projects has ranged from as little as $500

> (add

> a logo to an existing simple Flash game) to $750,000 plus (totally new

> dev,

> 3D, multiplayer, lots of levels, tons of characters and more). The

> average

> budget was somewhere around $20,000.

>

> --John Foster

>

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]

> On Behalf Of Jeff Murray

> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:31 PM

> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Risks of using OpenGL in casual games

>

> Hello!

>

> I think I've only posted up on this list a few times, so I'm glad to

> actually have a good reason to do so at last :)

>

> Perhaps someone here has some stats lying around that they wouldn't mind

> sharing ... I'm looking for figures on average costs of advergame

> production. I've been scouring the web and just can't seem to find

> anything

> useful / from a viable source. Sure, I can see how many dollars go into

> the

> industry but I can't find any average costs of production.

>

> Of course, I know how much we at Fuel Industries build advergames for

> ...

> but what about the rest of the world? Does anyone have any figures on

> this?

>

> Thanks in advance for any pointers / help you guys can give me, Jeff

> Murray.

>

> _______________________________________________

> Casual_Games mailing list

> Casual_Games at igda.org

> http://www.igda.org/casual-subscribe

> Archive: http://www.igda.org/casual-subscribe

> Archive Search:

> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010373383720242846960%3Az3tdwggxil8

> List FAQ:

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Casual_Games_SIG/Casual_Games_List_FA

> Q

> _______________________________________________

> Casual_Games mailing list

> Casual_Games at igda.org

> http://www.igda.org/casual-subscribe

> Archive: http://www.igda.org/casual-subscribe

> Archive Search:

> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010373383720242846960%3Az3tdwggxil8

> List FAQ:

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Casual_Games_SIG/Casual_Games_List_FAQ

>

>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/casual_games/attachments/20080320/58f7642a/attachment.html>