   Prices?
  I intedn to sell some shareware games! What price range should I be looking at:£1-£2£3-£4£5-£8£10+Please help? Remember these are cheap shareware games that come on a disc.    Make me a game.Ben@Wickedarcade.co.uk! We''''ll publish what you create! 
  Are these other peoples shareware games that you are just distributing on disk? If so then £1-2 (£5 max) as you are selling the disk, not the actual software (they still have to pay the software author to register the games).   Dan MarchantObscure Productions (www.obscure.co.uk)Game Development & Design consultant ;  No. I''ll be making the Shareware or the proper games! Ys I''ll be selling them on disc. And I''ll be selling them through my site!   Make me a game.Ben@Wickedarcade.co.uk! We''''ll publish what you create! ;  Wicked,I'm not going to pretend I've got it all figured out, but I'll throw in my 2 cents. (Please, correct me if I'm wrong)Assuming you are starting everything from scratch (ie. a no name company, no web traffic, etc.):1. Keep the purchase price low for online purchases (I usually start at $5 US). Its all profit. You should probably charge a little more for a product on disk to cover shipping and labor. Expect a turnaround of about 1 purchase to every 500 to 2000 people who try the shareware (depending on how good the product is). Therefore, you need to distribute the shareware to as many people as you can.2. Get alot of downloads.  Download.com is the best (I get around 100-500 downloads a day), but they charge $70 US to get your software listed. Tucows.com is good too, but they take forever to get your product listed if you don't pay them.3. Use your shareware to get more web traffic and get additional income from advertising (ie. have the shareware open up internet explorer to your web page when they exit. If you want the code for this let me know).  Check Adbility.com to get a listing of different advertising networks.  Also you can try www.google.com/adsense/ and Amazon.com.If your competing against other software on a disk then try to gauge your price depending on the other software (Quality vs. Price).  Hope this helps,Enfekted92Hicks.com [edited by - enfekted on January 10, 2004 1:07:10 PM];  It did help. THANKS! But I am also selling proper games. I am currently talking about an RTS!   Make me a game.Ben@Wickedarcade.co.uk! We''''ll publish what you create! ;  $10 - $25 ;  I noticed you are asking the same questions here as you have on the Game Maker forums. Hopefully your responses here will be better than many negative ones you received at the other forums. I offered advice there, but you never responded. Even though I was one of the few that did not post insults at you. Wish you luck... ;  Game maker forums? Url please. (I tried searching for them but couldn''t find yet.) ;  Ok sorry I probally forgot to check up on it!http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?act=idx 