How Much MONEY My Game Made In 1 WEEK!
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2024
- Hamster Hunter: store.steampowered.com/app/27...
In this video I discuss the stats and revenue my game made within it's launch week.
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ima be real... this might be the funniest game concept i have seen. hope all development goes on well and this game thrives
Thank you and I appreciate it!
Thanks, I have been struggling keepin up the motivation to build my game and u rekindled my spirit.
wow this is quite cool to see, i didn't realise such a small game could succeed fairly well. Good luck on future endeavours, really cool to watch.
Thank you!
Congrats! Always feels good to achieve your goals.
Thanks for sharing! Very insightful watch. I hope to learn from your videos and will apply to my game dev journey! Subbed and liked!
This fantastic! You just got a fan! I am excited to follow your future success.
Thank you!
You'll get the $100 you paid back! Its only a deposit. After you surpass $1000 total revenue, they refund the $100 :D
Oh Awesome! Well then I guess uploading to steam was basically free :)
good work man keep it up
Appreciate it
underrated utuber im planning to become a game devoloper to and to work hard towards it
Good luck in your journey! There will definitely be stressful moments
Congratulations 🎉
Great info on launch data! Thanks for sharing. I just watched your last expectation video and was wondering about couple things still.
Looking at the day 1 stats, did you still have 700-800 wishlists on launch day or more? Also did you get 10 positive reviews right away on launch day?
Looking forward to hearing more! Congrats on your release!
Nice!
Awesome it's going good for you, I was wondering if you had any tips on 3d modeling and other stuff like that, like any good tutorials anything would help. Thanks!
Honestly just starting, I'm not the best modeler but when I try to make higher quality models I can (choose not to cause I can't texture good)
But really just learning whatever software you use, I use blender. Just spend time watching random tutorials and following along then try recreating the tutorial without following it.
That is mainly what helped me a lot
okay thanks sm@@Hamunoo
What did you use to make the game? To setup the deal with steam was all done via email? you use opengl? Maybe see if you can make the game multiplayer for the sequel..... ok good luck I might get into game development but a bit rusty with programming.... nice to hear indie devs making it...
Really inspiring, well done! Did you keep track of hours spent at all? Would be interesting to know how much time you used to make this game :D
I unfortunately didn't, I know a rough amount but I think it will be wayyy off
Im a content creator but I watch this content for motivation 😊
Honestly, the refund stuff is so easy to prevent just by providing much more content for the money involved, because if a game is this short, it may not be worth money to most people. It competes with free games with dozens if not hundreds of hours of potential play time. It competes with paid games for the same cost with much more playtime. Honestly, as much as I think it is bad for someone to refund _after_ playing the full game, it's not really an end consumer issue. It's a content issue. Also, people can have multiple reasons why they refund a game.
The refunds aren't an issue and aren't something I am focused on fixing. The main purpose of the game was to learn and fully finish a project as a developer.
There are also PLENTY PLENTY of $5-$10 games out there that only give about 1 hour of AMAZING GAMEPLAY playtime. I am 100% okay if someone refunds that has less than 2 hours of playtime, I expected this an am okay with it. Although I wouldn't say it's an content issue because some players have found 10-20 and some even have 30+ hours of playtime. The main story line is only about an hour. You can have a few hours of fun in freeplay unlocking everything. I think it's more of players beating the story and then wanting to refund before time runs out (based on the refund notes I get from players).
Although in my next game this is something I will focus on and allow the player to have several hours of enjoyable content.
i have no idea how long night was, or that it was even apart of the game lol so maybe making that part of the toturial might help but fun little game, i like the economy management aspect!
Good idea :)
Hi Hamuno, thank you for the personal and helpful video. I noticed a somewhat large UA-cam channel made a video of your game about a month ago (Drae's "I played a totally normal game about shooting hamsters") with over 150k views. Did this result in any noticeable boost in sales?
Great question! That was after I made this video, although no. He played the video and I probably only got about 5 - 10 extra sales from his 150,000 views. I can't see the exact although from his video I could corelate the view dates with the sale dates and based on my daily average prior it was not much at all.
I do believe this is because my game is a game where IF you watch it then it feels as if you played it as you have seen on the devices the game has to offer etc.
Although I feel as if games like Among Us or Lehtal Company are the type of games that content creators help boost a lot.
@@Hamunoo Thank you for the answer. And yeah I understand what you mean about playthroughs having different impact depending on the genre of game. Btw big congrats on releasing your game!
I was curious if you tracked your time and how much time was spent on the game?
how much did the make?
edit: well, I watched the whole thing so you don't have to. It was 850 after Steam's cut
Now, in order to maintain the universal balance, you need to release the next game where you have to play with hamsters!
Build wheels for them, feed them, collect colorful hamsters and cross them. Hamsters should sing songs to you. Spread the player's name in poop and generally do all sorts of hamster things. Well, of course, hamsters should be cute fluffies. It seems to me there will be 10 times more sales. %)
Did you do any marketing?
How is it going today? VGInsight displays 16.000 and it seems you tripled that review count, so congrats!
Hello, out of curiosity how much time did it take you to make your game ?
I unfortunately didn't keep track, although that is something I might do on future projects.
NJ!
Refund rate around 20% is normal, not sure where the 10% comes from :)
You released a game with game breaking bugs? Did you not do any acceptance testing prior to release?
get PETA to boycott it and youll be a millionaire
the dream
The thumbnail is so obviously ai.
you clicked on it right?
@Hamunoo Just to comment that. It could lower your watchtime and get unwanted attention (like this). I don't want to come off as rude or mean, but using generative AI for thumbnail you will inevitably annoy some people who will lower your watchtime % ;p
Seems not worth the effort as it's below minimum wage
I think it was well worth it! As I was able to get a game under my belt and that was only first months sales, if we account for the current sales I am at it was well over minimum wage at around $56/hour based on the 1 month of work at 40 hours a week which would be incorrect to say I put 40 hours a week.
@@Hamunoo usually working for yourself is not worth it because you are limited to the number hours in your day for labour. Take into account, tax, pension, savings, paid holiday, cost of living paid sic leave, health care and other expenses, time with family and work life balance, it usually doesn't turn out well.
@@TacBlades I can see where it won't turn out good for some people, although this is not my main job, I have a primary job IRL and do this as a hobby.
you look like someone who comes out of the basement for about 5 minutes a day
Please stop looking at yourself when you're on the camera. Its just feels weird because your eyes are looking away from the lens and we can tell you're looking at yourself. Its uncomfortable.
I was actually looking at lens, you can see my monitor is on my left when you look at my eyes you can see the reflection.
Also if you go to 0:37 you can see me look towards my monitor. So I wasn't looking at myself haha so I am not sure what you mean, maybe something something is slightly off and it makes you uncomfortable? Idk haha.