{"id":168,"date":"2006-12-21T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-12-21T04:22:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T08:22:21","slug":"my-mmog-coming-out-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/21\/my-mmog-coming-out-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"My MMOG coming out in March?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAfter doing the schedule, if I work 10-15 hours a day with no breaks until the end of Feb. I can get the game out at the start of March.  Hopefully I can get it done faster than that but right now things take a lot longer because it&#8217;s my first pass, so I spend a lot of time refactoring code.<\/p>\n<p>The big question mark right now on the release date is the people I hired.  It&#8217;s possible they can help me with gameplay code, to get things done faster.  It&#8217;s also possible that things might get screwed up and draw away my time.  I&#8217;m going to have to be much less kind-hearted and drop workers that aren&#8217;t producing.  Because I was too forgiving, I lost the first month of the project.  I won&#8217;t make that mistake again.<\/p>\n<p>Right now the total cost of the game looks to be 110K US, which is pretty cheap for an MMOG.  It&#8217;s about average for a $20 on the shelf-game though.  In order to make my money back in 1 year, after counting ongoing costs, I need about 2500 paying subscribers.  Of course that is assuming I don&#8217;t pay myself.  If I do, I need another 1000 subscribers or so.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is still reasonable.  Even the worst MMOG gets that many subscribers and although mine is a lot smaller and simpler, it&#8217;s still going to be a fun and nice looking game.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing the schedule, if I work 10-15 hours a day with no breaks until the end of Feb. I can get the game out at the start of March. Hopefully I can get it done faster than that but right now things take a lot longer because it&#8217;s my first pass, so I spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}