GDC 09: World of Goo Cost, Sales Breakdowns

IGN writes: "Ever wonder what the profit margin is for a successful independent game? At the Game Developers Conference 2009, 2D Boy's Rob Carmel, who co-created the hit World of Goo, shed some light on the upstart's game development costs and profits.

According to Carmel, the tiny two-man company spent $96,000 during a span of two years as it created World of Goo. It also made investments of $4,000 on hardware, $1,000 on software, $5,000 on QA testing, $5,000 for localization and $5,000 on legal fees."

[TheIneffableBob]

That's pretty interesting.

Wii and PC sales should be around 50/50, if you take into account the huge sales boost they got during the Steam weekend sale.

It would've been nice if he gave specific sales numbers.

[Jellzy]

Yeah. You'd think they'd add the amount made in sales so we could see the actual profit, and make sense of the article in the first place since it was an apparent 'sales breakdown'

Could have made for an interestinng read but instead was used to push Direct2Drive.

[CBaoth]

They go on to tell you the team incurred over $115k in expenses *Direct2Drive* and reveal nothing about its sales. No information about the trials and tribulations *Direct2Drive* of a 2yr dev cycle of an indie studio creating an unknown IP. Could've made an interesting read. But no, IGN decided they *Direct2Drive* would whore out their service at the article's expense and shamelessly plug it in bold font. *Direct2Drive*

[winnert]

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