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Aug. 6th, 2006 02:31 amI have been chained to my Mac for several days working on cool stuff, as evidenced by recent posts. We're setting up the groundwork for profoundly nifty things, but first we gotta make the revenue model exist, and with both scheduling and forums online there's really nothing else to keep me from diving into it.
The venture group I was so hopeful about wrote to invite us to contact them them again in a couple of months, after our numbers had built up some. That puts two potential big investors into the future, waiting to see if we can walk the walk. As far as I'm concerned, this frees us to stop looking for capital right now and instead concentrate on growth. The revenue sharing system is just a tool for growth, here, one of many.
Growth's been falling off after some nice July spikes due to post-Origins publicity, but between my recent volity.net work and some other ideas I have, we can turn it around this month.
How are all of you doing, you who are working on Volity games? There are still only two published Volity developers, the same number as there's been for the last four months. This fact continues to frustrate and concern me.
This does too, to a lesser extent: We've sold exactly 0 games and 1 piece of merch to total strangers. (Our friends have bought a few of each.) Yes, it's not our main revenue plan, but really I'd have thought the goods would move a little faster.
Continuing to wildly vacillate between letting recent good things put me into a good and optimistic mood, and feeling that I'm burning my life away on an enormous misguided notion and it's high time I apply my creativity into something more immediate. I think it's directly tied to the position of the sun in the sky.
Maybe I should start making Volity Currents...
After making the forums go live I decided I was going stir-crazy, and so fled.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dictator555 and classicaljunkie joined me in walking around west Somerville for an hour or so. We walked all the way up to my first apartment at 15 Highland and nearly got run over by two kids on a bicycle. I saw an enormous stag beetle, and drank a coffee.
Late last night, after hours and hours of work, I was pushing myself to complete just a few more things when I had the sensation that I was tumbling backwards. Was actually simply sitting down at the time, and my automatic reaction of leaning forwards a split-second later counteracted it. It was scary and unnerving! I wonder what caused it.
The venture group I was so hopeful about wrote to invite us to contact them them again in a couple of months, after our numbers had built up some. That puts two potential big investors into the future, waiting to see if we can walk the walk. As far as I'm concerned, this frees us to stop looking for capital right now and instead concentrate on growth. The revenue sharing system is just a tool for growth, here, one of many.
Growth's been falling off after some nice July spikes due to post-Origins publicity, but between my recent volity.net work and some other ideas I have, we can turn it around this month.
How are all of you doing, you who are working on Volity games? There are still only two published Volity developers, the same number as there's been for the last four months. This fact continues to frustrate and concern me.
This does too, to a lesser extent: We've sold exactly 0 games and 1 piece of merch to total strangers. (Our friends have bought a few of each.) Yes, it's not our main revenue plan, but really I'd have thought the goods would move a little faster.
Continuing to wildly vacillate between letting recent good things put me into a good and optimistic mood, and feeling that I'm burning my life away on an enormous misguided notion and it's high time I apply my creativity into something more immediate. I think it's directly tied to the position of the sun in the sky.
Maybe I should start making Volity Currents...
After making the forums go live I decided I was going stir-crazy, and so fled.
dictator555 and classicaljunkie joined me in walking around west Somerville for an hour or so. We walked all the way up to my first apartment at 15 Highland and nearly got run over by two kids on a bicycle. I saw an enormous stag beetle, and drank a coffee.Late last night, after hours and hours of work, I was pushing myself to complete just a few more things when I had the sensation that I was tumbling backwards. Was actually simply sitting down at the time, and my automatic reaction of leaning forwards a split-second later counteracted it. It was scary and unnerving! I wonder what caused it.