Many games will fit within the specs of all devices. Same goes for most applications. There are exceptions such as heavy CAD software and FPS. There's also the matter of inputs. You won't be playing LoL on a mobile device but you could play it on an Xbox.
Children don't tend to dart out in front of airliners
The computer has a 100ms advantage on humans when it comes to reaction, let alone the awareness of it's surroundings (360 degree) at all time. At to this the respect of speed limits and it makes for a much safer car in residential neighborhoods as long as the software and computer hardware is sound.
Eye glasses don't help the lazy eye, instead it helps both eyes and prevents premature fatigue. Using an eye patch over the good eye helps make the lazy eye's muscles more enduring but this only helps if you continue doing it.
I just hope this guy isn't a criminal because he will prove the government to be right in their actions and that's the end of data privacy freedom (or what is left of it)
So the morale of the story is the same. Bad business is bad business. It's not the 5% that sunk you, it's the fact that you didn't build a building worth selling.
The car repair analogy isn't a good one. A better analogy would be to compare it to the engineering design process to make the car.
Refactoring is the action of reviewing the code and re-writing it (internally only). Refactoring is in most cases done to increase readability and reusability (once again, internally only) which usually results in better maintainability. A by products of refactoring is detecting defects and optimization opportunities.
Key here is that the process may reveal optimization opportunities and software issues.
Refactoring is the action of reviewing the code and re-writing it (internally only). Refactoring is in most cases done to increase readability and reusability (once again, internally only) which usually results in better maintainability. A by products of refactoring is detecting defects and optimization opportunities.
Articles like this cause an over reaction as it intends to on
Fact is that the right expertise will be brought in to asses who was involved in making sure the illegal content remained on the servers. The court system is in place to allow each individual charged to defend themselves. After all they are innocent until proven guilty. In a case like this I would think it's very hard to point fingers at employees unless there's a data trail.
Yeah. They'll probably re-write the graphic engine to solve some of the issues as well as speed it up.
How do you go bankrupt from 5% of revenue? Isn't your costing model flawed from the beginning then? Unity offers their engine for next to nothing yet if anything Unity has allowed indie games to surface and make money.
If you read the license agreement, the 5% royalty is only taken after the first $3000 quarterly. So as a developer if you make $10 000 per month (after store fees), the royalty will cost you ((10 000 - 3000) x 0.05) = $350. That leaves you with $9650 per month.
Like one investor once said to me. If your product is good enough to sell on a royalty, whoever buys it should be more than capable of capitalizing on it's success. If 5% is too much for you to make money on you should look at other options.
The royalty system has existed for a long time and many people got rich both from the royalty and from taking advantage of the success of the one selling the royalty.
I don't recall anybody referring to gross receipts. Gross margin is what was spoken about.
You didn't read how the licensing works.
First $3000, no cost to the dev.
5% on anything else quarterly.
As a gaming studio, if your costing model doesn't include the 5% then you need to hire someone to help you with the business side of things.
Let me ask you this. How much money have gaming companies made by using existing Engines? Far more than the $2.5 Billion. Mojang had a great idea and made it happen with his own engine. He had to invest TONES of time and money to get there and luckily it all worked out for him in the end. Unfortunately most businesses don't go that direction. So rule to thumb, if you don't need to re-create an engine, don't!
And same goes for being a miserable person. I know the stereotype is that older people are miserable, but trust me, most miserable older people were miserable young people. They just let it out more, because as you get older you have fewer inhibitions (see the point about sex above).
Good job on this post but I disagree on this part. Experience in life makes you less patient to ignorance. I'm not talking about ignorance as in "lack of having lived" but rather the ignorance that is people just not caring about other around them. It's usually the same issues that have been around for a long time that you can tell will never be fixed since it hasn't changed in 15 years. E.g. Making sure there's toilet paper for the next person. Not having your high beams on everywhere you drive. Being polite online. The list goes on.
The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- B. Franklin
