I'm about to release a new game after winning the GMTK Game Jam 2024 with it. You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3215120/Blueprint_Bob/
Some other data I didn't include in the video: Highest concurrent Twitch viewers was 35,422 which was when sodapoppin played the game Wishlist conversion rate is currently at 10.6% (172 conversions out of 1688 wishlists in total) 15 Units were sold on Mac 13 Units were sold on Linux Made around $16 on this RUclips channel during the same period 78% of the users opened the game at least once (465 users) 38% of those users beat the game (177 users) 11% got all achievements (51 users) Somehow 3 users managed to open the game without getting the achievement for opening the game (the game probably crashed LULE)
@@andresmetalowl1151 Probably true, think it's because the game relies on the jokes in the minigames instead of trying to be fun to play (even though I still think it's pretty fun to play Copesen) which means once you've seen it you don't really need to play it yourself.
Just wondering, does steam shows you any stats regardless 'gifted' copies of the game? Or are they just counts as 'sold' ? Thanks for the key anyway. t. supa rare 100% achievements linux user
Well the game is still on my wishlist. I'll probably buy it sometime soon. keep up the videos man. I definitely find this breakdown behind making a steam game very interesting
Congrats on your success-I’d say for a first game with one other person that was a great result. I’m sure you two learned so much from the process too. 👏
Thanks for sharing the information, that's very cool of you! 😄 By the way, I'm from Argentina and I know for a fact that people started buying more games since Steam changed the currency in the Argentina store from U$D to AR$, however the price you can see in that list (15:25) is not accurate. In Argentina there are a lot of extra taxes that you have to pay on top of that base price. I'm not sure how much because I don't live there anymore but there is a chrome extension that shows the real prices 😁
I'm from Chile and all my chilean friends have their steam in Argentina, I don't want to do it because I'm stupid, but that's it, I've heard is really easy.
@@SeahorseGames You don’t need Aregentina credit card, you buy csgo skins from third party then sell to steam market, is like you can get one point three dollar from one dollar skins since steam wallet money have inflation.
That's honestly not bad sales! And the thing to remember with games is that sales can come in waves. Who knows if a streamer might play it or if you release another game, more traffic will be lead to your previous games.
I live in Argentina, the price might seem like half but that's because the government adds over 50% tax so in paper we end up paying like everyone else. In reality the dollar currency here is extremely expensive and we end up paying more since we need to use the black market to get them or buy from a reseller wich usually charges x3 the steam price.
Always nice to see such overviews from beginning developers. I'm planning to start developing my first game myself, and this information is very interesting
Hello Alexander. Just wanted to say, and I'm trying not to be a dick here but give a bit of constructive criticism, that your game seems to have a very simple gameplay, so it's hard to expect lots of people buying it despite thousands of twich viewers. Twitch creators played it for the lulz, as the title suggested. I'm sure a bit more engaging game mechanic would draw more buyers. Good luck with your next projects!
Its really great that you tracked all of this! I'm curious what a typical conversation rates are on things like: Impressions --> page visits, page visits --> wishlists, page visits --> games sold. Do you know of where you can find things like this? do you know any of this?
@@SeahorseGames Gotcha alright. Well anyway I think its fantastic that you tracked all of these details and I look forward to seeing you keep trying to release new games!
Any updates on the total sales since posting the video? Just curious what the tail of the graph would look like close to two years later. Great job by the way!
You need a proxy to buy games from Argentina (which is very easy to have) - and indeed a lot (!) of sales are made like that to pay less. The only solution against it is just to not decrease the price there so much. :(
I've been thinking about tracking my time spent and what spent on in order to keep progress on track. I really really like the time spent graph you have here. I would love it if you could find the time to even toss a few sentences here about how you went about tracking it. No pressure.
hi im from Argentina and yes our prices on steam are the cheapest in the world because our economy is a mess. There are even times that certain games do the conversion to pesos wrong and end up being cheaper for a short time. until they fix it. that happened with the game " The Callisto Protocol " that it was at ARS$ 649,99 for a couple of hours and then was fixed. if u are from USA ,that is like $4.83.
I'm from Brazil and I have to say, the game did not sold well in Brazil because games here are REALLY expensive, and the majority of people cant really afford gaming pcs.
I'm not sure you can even have ads on steam games, I have never seen that. But I definitely think I would have made less if you could. The reason I believe this is that I don't think the game would have reached a much larger audience if it was free. More people would obviously have played it but I don't think the ad-rev from that would have been enough.
Did the sales drop after the first month or is it still generating sales? Considering its just 1 month of sales it sounds like it could be quite profitable if the sales continues to roll in?
@@SeahorseGames Well thats really really good actually if you ask me :) You should make a video on marketing advice and how to bring attention to your game
I'm brazillian About brazillian sales, most people who watched your game on RUclips are kids. And on top of that, we don't have enough money to buy games regularly so watching gameplays on RUclips instead of actually buying the game is VERY common.
Happy to hear you worked out for you! The anticipation and slight dread that settles in before releasing can be intense, so it going well is so relieving. I wouldn't worry too much about the wage per hour - you are still studying, and having your already second game out and it actually making money, with people buying it and being happy after the purchase is awesome and a great place to build upon.
Yeah I’m very happy with it, I just like to compare numbers 😄 Looking forward to dome romantik btw 😉 (maybe it’s called something else, can’t quite remember lol)
I'm from Argentina, I can buy any game I want, it's super cheap for us. And it's even cheaper than it looks because $1 = 320 ARS, a game that's $20 cost 225 ARS for us, and that's $0.70! The only problem is if we buy it depositing money to steam, we have to pay our goverment 60% because for international purchase fee, but that would be 360 ARS or $1.12 still. I always buy them with steam wallet funds, that I get from investing and selling items on the community market. I wish I could gift games to anyone but they are only giftable to my region, south america.
13:26 That "average wage by country" graph is very interesting but take it with a grain of salt, it says $13,080/year for Venezuela but... lmao, someone must have thought the thousands separator was a fraction. Brazil seems accurate though.
The videos don't convert well enough for that and I would have had to have done that before the videos got made since they're not gonna generate many views this late.
Steam charges 30%? Jeeezus christ. I thought it was 5%. No wonder they're not working on making Half Life games anymore, running the shop makes them billions.
I didn't realise you could refund any game under 2 hours play... I have a very old laptop that cant play many games... suppose I could refund quite a few.. but after looking through....nah, want them for when I upgrade in a year or so XD
just publishing a game and making a little money is a big step in game development. there are thousands of others that have an idea that would make a good game and never get to deliver on it. gg
To do the Argentina trick you create a new steam account with Argentina VPN and you use steam gift cards instead of connecting ur credit card because that will change the region automatically
Nah if I wanted donations I'd make a patreon or something, but that would only be if I was going fulltime dev, which I'm not. Just buy the game if you want to support us ^^
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I'm about to release a new game after winning the GMTK Game Jam 2024 with it.
You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3215120/Blueprint_Bob/
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Some other data I didn't include in the video:
Highest concurrent Twitch viewers was 35,422 which was when sodapoppin played the game
Wishlist conversion rate is currently at 10.6% (172 conversions out of 1688 wishlists in total)
15 Units were sold on Mac
13 Units were sold on Linux
Made around $16 on this RUclips channel during the same period
78% of the users opened the game at least once (465 users)
38% of those users beat the game (177 users)
11% got all achievements (51 users)
Somehow 3 users managed to open the game without getting the achievement for opening the game (the game probably crashed LULE)
Biggest viewcount and lowest buys LULE
@@andresmetalowl1151 Probably true, think it's because the game relies on the jokes in the minigames instead of trying to be fun to play (even though I still think it's pretty fun to play Copesen) which means once you've seen it you don't really need to play it yourself.
Just wondering, does steam shows you any stats regardless 'gifted' copies of the game? Or are they just counts as 'sold' ?
Thanks for the key anyway.
t. supa rare 100% achievements linux user
@@roopane2584 if you mean gifted wishlist conversions they do and it’s at 7. If you mean keys that I gifted they also do and thats at 53.
forsenScoots interesting
That was unironically interesting. Good luck at uni! :)
Well the game is still on my wishlist. I'll probably buy it sometime soon. keep up the videos man. I definitely find this breakdown behind making a steam game very interesting
Congrats on your success-I’d say for a first game with one other person that was a great result. I’m sure you two learned so much from the process too. 👏
Thanks for sharing the information, that's very cool of you! 😄
By the way, I'm from Argentina and I know for a fact that people started buying more games since Steam changed the currency in the Argentina store from U$D to AR$, however the price you can see in that list (15:25) is not accurate. In Argentina there are a lot of extra taxes that you have to pay on top of that base price. I'm not sure how much because I don't live there anymore but there is a chrome extension that shows the real prices 😁
taxes are 75% of the base price
I love how efficient people are with tracking their own progress
Actually very interesting FeelsOkayMan. Looking forward to seeing any future games you make
Thanks for sharing feedback it helps to understand how things work
I'm from Chile and all my chilean friends have their steam in Argentina, I don't want to do it because I'm stupid, but that's it, I've heard is really easy.
Interesting
@@SeahorseGames You don’t need Aregentina credit card, you buy csgo skins from third party then sell to steam market, is like you can get one point three dollar from one dollar skins since steam wallet money have inflation.
Very informative breakdown! Best of luck with your new life in Albania! ;)
Wish you all the best for university and looking forward to your future projects! WidePeepoHappy
congrats to the release , love to hear that you are a swedish game dev feels like its few of it in sweden.
Really? I feel like there is a lot of game developers in Sweden.
very cool mr underwater stallion, looking forward to your next project
if lul inc 2, include kripp mini game where you try and not fall asleep FeelsOkayMan 👍
Heyguyshow'sitgoingkripparianhere
Dwerve is launching Tuesday May 31st, wish me luck.
Good luck!
ayyyy it went good, congrats my dude!! I am proud of you, your game looks so dope imo
@@von... thanks!
That's honestly not bad sales! And the thing to remember with games is that sales can come in waves. Who knows if a streamer might play it or if you release another game, more traffic will be lead to your previous games.
For a very rushed and niche game, with 0 budget, this is very impressive.
Now make LUL Inc 2
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Hagahaha. I used to use an argentinian account, yes, it’s as easy as using a VPN and then trading items from account to account. Great video. ❤
thanks for sharing all this! very helpful to see for aspiring game devs
Steam should change there refund thing depending on the game like they should track if you have beating it or not.
Great video broski
I live in Argentina, the price might seem like half but that's because the government adds over 50% tax so in paper we end up paying like everyone else.
In reality the dollar currency here is extremely expensive and we end up paying more since we need to use the black market to get them or buy from a reseller wich usually charges x3 the steam price.
I was one of the twenty people who bought the game from Canada 👍🇨🇦
damn I used to think that Soda's SSS would always lead to a lot of purchases, nice to see some numbers!
Very informative video 👍I enjoyed
Always nice to see such overviews from beginning developers. I'm planning to start developing my first game myself, and this information is very interesting
Hello Alexander. Just wanted to say, and I'm trying not to be a dick here but give a bit of constructive criticism, that your game seems to have a very simple gameplay, so it's hard to expect lots of people buying it despite thousands of twich viewers. Twitch creators played it for the lulz, as the title suggested. I'm sure a bit more engaging game mechanic would draw more buyers. Good luck with your next projects!
very noice
whats the software you used to measure work time?
Manually in excel
@@SeahorseGames oh lul i thought you used a "productivity" app or something
Its really great that you tracked all of this!
I'm curious what a typical conversation rates are on things like: Impressions --> page visits, page visits --> wishlists, page visits --> games sold. Do you know of where you can find things like this? do you know any of this?
No general conversion rates available that I know of, only estimates
@@SeahorseGames Gotcha alright. Well anyway I think its fantastic that you tracked all of these details and I look forward to seeing you keep trying to release new games!
Any updates on the total sales since posting the video? Just curious what the tail of the graph would look like close to two years later. Great job by the way!
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that was a great documentary!
You need a proxy to buy games from Argentina (which is very easy to have) - and indeed a lot (!) of sales are made like that to pay less. The only solution against it is just to not decrease the price there so much. :(
I've been thinking about tracking my time spent and what spent on in order to keep progress on track. I really really like the time spent graph you have here. I would love it if you could find the time to even toss a few sentences here about how you went about tracking it. No pressure.
Tracked manually in an excel sheet after each session
hi im from Argentina and yes our prices on steam are the cheapest in the world because our economy is a mess.
There are even times that certain games do the conversion to pesos wrong and end up being cheaper for a short time. until they fix it.
that happened with the game " The Callisto Protocol " that it was at ARS$ 649,99 for a couple of hours and then was fixed. if u are from USA ,that is like $4.83.
I'm from Brazil and I have to say, the game did not sold well in Brazil because games here are REALLY expensive, and the majority of people cant really afford gaming pcs.
Not bad not bad very impressive
awesome video
Thanks!
Very interesting video. Now I'm curious, if you had made it a free game and included ads instead, do you think you would've earned more or less?
I'm not sure you can even have ads on steam games, I have never seen that. But I definitely think I would have made less if you could. The reason I believe this is that I don't think the game would have reached a much larger audience if it was free. More people would obviously have played it but I don't think the ad-rev from that would have been enough.
Okayeg 👍 very pog.
Dutch people having a field day with this title
Did the sales drop after the first month or is it still generating sales?
Considering its just 1 month of sales it sounds like it could be quite profitable if the sales continues to roll in?
Still slowly generating, at 750+ right now
@@SeahorseGames Well thats really really good actually if you ask me :)
You should make a video on marketing advice and how to bring attention to your game
How did you track your time and how long did it take you to maintain that?
Manually in excel, takes like 30 seconds per session
I'm brazillian
About brazillian sales, most people who watched your game on RUclips are kids. And on top of that, we don't have enough money to buy games regularly so watching gameplays on RUclips instead of actually buying the game is VERY common.
@The Seahorse: If you did this under a HB, your cut would be $605 after taxes, since you have a tax exempt on sums below a certain amount...
(Around $2000)
It's completely wild you didn't show a single second of gameplay
Happy to hear you worked out for you! The anticipation and slight dread that settles in before releasing can be intense, so it going well is so relieving. I wouldn't worry too much about the wage per hour - you are still studying, and having your already second game out and it actually making money, with people buying it and being happy after the purchase is awesome and a great place to build upon.
Yeah I’m very happy with it, I just like to compare numbers 😄 Looking forward to dome romantik btw 😉 (maybe it’s called something else, can’t quite remember lol)
good job buddy
Yeah, 13:20, hello, that's MY country with 6360$ per year :c 👋🏻
I'm from Argentina, I can buy any game I want, it's super cheap for us. And it's even cheaper than it looks because $1 = 320 ARS, a game that's $20 cost 225 ARS for us, and that's $0.70! The only problem is if we buy it depositing money to steam, we have to pay our goverment 60% because for international purchase fee, but that would be 360 ARS or $1.12 still. I always buy them with steam wallet funds, that I get from investing and selling items on the community market. I wish I could gift games to anyone but they are only giftable to my region, south america.
13:26 That "average wage by country" graph is very interesting but take it with a grain of salt, it says $13,080/year for Venezuela but... lmao, someone must have thought the thousands separator was a fraction. Brazil seems accurate though.
forsen
-250 lule 11:20
i remember your first game when you had 100 subscribers feelsokayman
FeelsOkayMan :point_right:
You made more than 1 dollar? Success PogChamp
Damn, this game cost money? I didnt know TriHard
hey
the video that the brazillian youtuber made has more than 1 million views now
did you consider find someone to translate your game to portuguese?
The videos don't convert well enough for that and I would have had to have done that before the videos got made since they're not gonna generate many views this late.
IF NYMN READS THIS VI VON ZULUL. Also great job on the game FeelsOkayMan 👍
Will you update us on 6 Months of sale?
Wasn't planning on it but I'll probably do a 1 year update.
Isn't there a untaxable income in sweden? Like for example if your income is less than 10000$ a year.
Yeah that's probably true which is why I left it out
Interesting video hope you do well in collage.
Thank you! I'm finished now and I even got a job so it worked out well.
Steam charges 30%? Jeeezus christ. I thought it was 5%. No wonder they're not working on making Half Life games anymore, running the shop makes them billions.
Every major store takes 30%, that's the standard unfortunately.
How did you track the time spent
Manually in excel
paying double taxes , ooo yeee love it
I REFUNDED :tf:
Just kidding dev :)
It's ok if you did, at least you got to play the game :)
How did you make stremaer and twicher play your game did you just send free key
No, the game is made with a lot of twitch references and stuff. And I've made a fan game to forsen before so he knew who I was.
You need to check mean wage, not average :)
am i the only one person who buyed it in poland, or is there more?
No there are quite a lot of sales in Poland, around 20 or so. Thanks for purchasing ❤️
@@SeahorseGames no problem, the game is actually really fun to play and i think i will finish it tomorrow or something :)
So Argentina has become Republic Of Steam Gamers... Lol
Why you hired a publisher, exactly?
I didnt?
@@SeahorseGames Sorry maybe i misunderstood.
I see that ~half of the money was paid to 2pFrog.
What service they provided to you?
@@myprivatechannel1695 he’s the artist
I bought it on both of my accounts Okayeg
richest baj FeelsOkayMan
gg
13:30 cmonBruh
element faild to initialize OpenGl.
some Brazilians buy from Argentina
how do you know the work hours ?
I track it manually in Excel
I didn't realise you could refund any game under 2 hours play...
I have a very old laptop that cant play many games... suppose I could refund quite a few..
but after looking through....nah, want them for when I upgrade in a year or so XD
You also need to refund the game within 2 weeks of buying it
Didn't refund.
-8 AUD
Wow 90% of the game reviews on steam look like they where bought.
Yeah I agree, the reason is the strong fan base the streamer I made the game for has (forsen).
just publishing a game and making a little money is a big step in game development. there are thousands of others that have an idea that would make a good game and never get to deliver on it. gg
I meaan... The game looks like it's targeted towards 10-13 year olds, so that youtube video did show it to the target audience...
To do the Argentina trick you create a new steam account with Argentina VPN and you use steam gift cards instead of connecting ur credit card because that will change the region automatically
Do you guys have Paypal? Maybe we can help by donating some money
Nah if I wanted donations I'd make a patreon or something, but that would only be if I was going fulltime dev, which I'm not. Just buy the game if you want to support us ^^
not even 606 $ LULE
Clueless surely forsens reaction to this wont get more views than this video
wishlists are plagues with bots, out of 2000 wishlists you can have only 300-500 real ppl.
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
-- Colin Powell,,,,,,,
Just release it on mobile 4HEad
Ez clap
Who is he talking to? LULE
Your mom was in the room with me, I was explaining it to her and I was already recording so I though I would upload it here as well
@@SeahorseGames forsenHead Clap
0:58 I think you meant "hours" and not "dollars" LULE
I said hours though? Think it sounds like dollars since I said it directly after saying threehundreD hours so it became ”dhours” lol
605 dollars.
Just released my first game on ios, Mine Crossing! Please try it out! 🤩
-40 LULE
-50 tomorrow LULE
its becouse our economy (Argentinian) its on the ground :p
ten dola
You should live in Muslim country where the country don't teaks tax
flexing on Africa, thats fantastic hahahahaha
To be honest it is pretty impressive this kind of trash can make some money at all. :D
This game looks like 🗑️ no hate