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Style
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Did anyone make much money writing c64 games?
and if so, what sort of money are we talking?
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T.M.R
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Registered: Dec 2001
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Magazine staff were, at least judging by the ones in the U.K., a mixture of journalists and gamers pretending/learning to be journalists. =-) i've always had the impression that people like Julian Rignall were gamers who got into writing, others like Gordon Houghton were writers who got into gaming; in either case it works 'cos the writer can string a sentence together and enjoys the subject matter.
Some mags were "professional" in that they only hired professional writers, that meant they occasionally got people who could write really pretty, like, but hadn't a clue about their subject matter... i can't think of any examples right now but i've seen some horrendous articles in the past that more than hint at that cause. |
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SIDWAVE
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I went to school with the 2 guys that made Thunderforce. They earned very little on that game. |
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Graham
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Quote: ok, forgot this computer as i never brought an atari xl before
the C64.. ;)
The Atari 800 is not an Atari XL. |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
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Julian Rignall rocked. Him & Gary Penn were my fave writers back in the days.
Btw, I just found out that there's a Wikipedia article about Julian :Z |
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pernod
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Quote: I have always wondered the same about c64 based papermagazines in their prime days.
Anyone know more about the people behind those?
I worked for the danish Commodore-related monthly magazine called 'Oberoende COMputer' from 1987 until the early 1990s (as did Bacchus/FLT, for example). For a high school student it was more than ok pay, say 1500 SEK (160 Euros) or so for one A4 page of text. Bacchus wrote a zillion pages for each issue, just enough to cover his phonebills (modem days). |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
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Quote: I worked for the danish Commodore-related monthly magazine called 'Oberoende COMputer' from 1987 until the early 1990s (as did Bacchus/FLT, for example). For a high school student it was more than ok pay, say 1500 SEK (160 Euros) or so for one A4 page of text. Bacchus wrote a zillion pages for each issue, just enough to cover his phonebills (modem days).
And he used me as child labour, typing in the code entries and try them out. Did I get any money? U owe me bro!!! |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
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sad to say, I heard more stories about people getting ripped off by companies.. more talented at stealing peoples work and legal stuff than making their own games .
i guess the way would be to make an amazing game by your own company.. then sell the company on for silly amount of profit..
loads of software houses buy each other out, bit like hop scotch really.
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
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just to add, someone posted a "Did anyone make much money writing c64 demos?" topic, topic closed?
i remember years ago there was a german mag that had a competition for demos.. i'm thinking lotus or crazy won it or someone..
as for the uk , there was a note writer on comodore disk user... also a demo made esp for the mag. can't say if the people involved got paid though, i guess they might of. i have to see if i can dig out the FULL c.d.u demo, not the 1/2 one file version.. maybe tmr/cosine has it ?!?! |
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Tim
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Registered: Mar 2002
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Quote: sad to say, I heard more stories about people getting ripped off by companies.. more talented at stealing peoples work and legal stuff than making their own games .
i guess the way would be to make an amazing game by your own company.. then sell the company on for silly amount of profit..
loads of software houses buy each other out, bit like hop scotch really.
somehow Cherry Software rings a bell in that department ;)
I got bored reading all the "i still haven't received any money yet" complaints.. did anyone ever get payed? |
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Motion
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Registered: Aug 2002
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..ask Mark Cale of System 3 ;D |
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