I’ve been getting a number of messages about opportunities people can utilize to reach the goal, so I’ve decided to collect them in one place. If you’d like to share one, post a comment below or send a tweet to @mikekasprzak.
Opportunities
- PC (Windows & Linux) – Desura – Looking for quality indie games
- PC (Linux) – Gameolith – 90% royalty rate until December
- Web – Intel AppUp – First 200 quality apps win $250 USD
Launching or Closing Soon
- All – Independent Games Festival – Highly regarded event with cash prizes, due Oct 17th
- PC (Windows & Mac) – Indie City – New Indie Games portal coming soon
- Web (Flash) – Flash Player 11 – Launching Soon (3D). Release Candidate Available
Marketplaces
- Mobile (Android) – Android Marketplace – Android phones and tablets ($25 one time fee)
- Mobile (Android) – Amazon App Store – Amazon Fire Tablet (First year free then $99 year)
- Mobile (Apple) – iOS App Store – iPhone, iPod touch, iPad ($99 year)
- PC (Mac) – Mac App Store – Apple’s built-in App Store ($99 year)
- PC (Windows & Linux) – Desura – PC Game and Mod storefront with a Steam-like client
- PC (Linux) – Gameolith – Linux gaming store with 70% and 80% royalty rates
- Web (Flash & Unity) – Flash Game License – Put your games up for auction
- Web (Flash) – Flash Portals – Too many to list. Many can be contacted directly
- Web – Chrome Web Store – Sell content to Chrome browser users ($5 one time fee)
- Mobile & Web (Flash) – Blackberry Developers – Phones and Playbook Tablet
- PC & Web – Intel AppUp – Windows and MeeGo (Linux) devices
- Mobile & Console – Microsoft App Hub – XBLIG and Windows Phone 7 ($99 year)
Payments
- Amazon Payments – Payments powered by Amazon
- BMT Micro – Long time favorite of many PC/Shareware authors
- Google Checkout – Payments powered by Google
- Google IAP – In App Payments by Google
- Paypal – Old Faithful
Resources
- Mobile – Streaming Color’s iOS Developer Revenue Survey
Another venue that might be good timing: http://www.indiecity.com is just about to launch and getting your (PC/MAC) game in early will definitely earn you some sales. They hope to become the indie version of steam.
Canadian students can also take advantage of the Great Canadian Appathon: 48hr game jam, Sept. 30th, $50,000 in prizes: http://greatcanadianappathon.com/
Finally, I have a top secret CHARITY GAME JAM project that is under construction… more info on that soon…
Web (Flash & Unity) – http://www.kongregate.com – Weekly and monthly prizes
Web (Flash) – http://www.flashgamelicense.com – Flash games marketplace
FGL take Unity games too I believe.
I imagine getting some funds via http://Kickstartercom or http://8bitfunding.com/ would also suffice for the goal? Another funding site http://www.indiegogo.com/ /
Then there are all the various app stores:
Unity Asset Store: http://unity3d.com/unity/editor/asset-store.html
Apple App Store ($99 registration)
Android App Store ($25 registration)
Intel AppUp as mentioned above is also an app store, in addition to the prizes
Amazon App Store (for android) http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/ ($99/yr after the first year)
Samsung Apps – http://www.samsungapps.com/
Blackberry App World : http://us.blackberry.com/developers/appworld/distribution.jsp
Then there are all the tools for putting ads or micropayments in your app:
Google In-App Payments: https://checkout.google.com/inapppayments/
Ad4Game: http://www.ad4game.com/index.php
http://www.inviziads.com/
(.. many more..)
Here is a tweet by @PixelProspector:
3 upcoming indie game shops… IndieCity http://bit.ly/f37sZ2 IndiePub http://bit.ly/n80kke IndieVania http://bit.ly/qmzhr5
Also don’t forget http://store.steampowered.com/ or http://www.desura.com/
In our Halloween game competition, you can win >$30
That would suffice as a backup plan!
http://64digits.com/users/index.php?userid=Toast&cmd=comments&id=271479
/shameless plugging
Wait, I have to submit my game both in a Market Place and to this Website? 😀
Technically you don’t have to submit here, but I can’t imagine a reason you wouldn’t want to be on our list. If you participated in the challenge, it’s basically a record of that.
Wait, I have to submit my game both in a Market Place and to this Website? 😀 By the way, how do you submit a game in Desura.
It’s been a while, but for Desura, I’m pretty sure you create a profile page for your game inside the ModDB/IndieDB network. Then I think you contact them, and they enable a bunch of features on your profile page such as uploading and charging money. The process should be laid out and explained somewhere.
Wait, how can I contact them?
Oh wait, another question: Can I add my game in the list and you’ll submit it in the market?