Wah, all talk into making games. What about selling them? Selling is more important than making them.

If doing games, I suggest going into small apps with short development like facebook aps. Selling games especially PC games = suicide cause sure pirate like mad. Promoting outside like awareness campaign oversea is really expensive. Malaysia is like Free to Play model. In Japan, this so call (doujin) amateur game makers actually makes money because piracy in Japan is a taboo. "Recettear" sold over 100k copies because of "Japan" brand. No point spending time,effort and especially money into something that would go down the drain. If sell in Malaysia price would be around RM 10 - RM 25 would be reasonable.

I suggest being amateur is better, you keep your job. At night or weekeend spend sometime doing it with a group. Almost capital free btw.

Great marketing? You can sell things without the actual product. Its call scamming.

True, the gaming industry is something you can't get serious in Malaysia.

Recettear is a bit overrated, its the power of perception. If Recettear is made in Malaysia, you think can same success? I don't know how The Star manage to pick this news up. Walau, game from some Muslim country? Already minus points and very difficult into making into headlines. Must be too many otakus. Can make games here, but need publish elsewhere. For example most of our CG cartoons. The truth is Upin and Ipin will never catch on other parts of the world.

Minecraft is something new. But i haven't try Amnesia.

Well, i concede. Make sense now after reading this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_v...ame_development