{"id":176,"date":"2008-04-08T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-09-21T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T14:12:14","slug":"why-the-games-industry-is-having-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/why-the-games-industry-is-having-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the games industry is having trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/why-game-developers-are-screwed.html\">here<\/a> from the Rampant Coyote; also on our blog-roll, so I thought I&#8217;d jump them up the order. Basically it is bemoaning the fact that games developers are in a losing business right now. Well, those who are in the traditional publisher-fronts-all-money-as-advance-against-sales model are at least. I wouldn&#8217;t like to speculate on whether or not other developers are profitable or not, but the sales input versus development costs mis-match is something I&#8217;ve harped on about here before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/\">Rampant Games<\/a> itself is an indie games portal\/developer, with a wide range of games, all developed by independents. I haven&#8217;t actually played any of the games I must admit, but I still cheer for independent developers who stake out their territory and do well there. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\">blog<\/a> is a mix of opinion pieces and development stories, but personally I like it for the in-depth coverage of the progress of their new game (Frayed Knights), which looks quite fun and is just entering the beta stage now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article here from the Rampant Coyote; also on our blog-roll, so I thought I&#8217;d jump them up the order. Basically it is bemoaning the fact that games developers are in a losing business right now. Well, those who are in the traditional publisher-fronts-all-money-as-advance-against-sales model are at least. I wouldn&#8217;t like to speculate on whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}