{"id":2525,"date":"2009-03-12T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2009-03-12T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:56:34","slug":"dapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2525","title":{"rendered":"Dapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game: Dapple<br \/>\nTotal Development Time: Six Months<br \/>\nPlatform: iPhone<br \/>\nDevelopment Costs: <strong>$32,000<\/strong><br \/>\nResponse: Favorable reviews, including a positive review on Kotaku<br \/>\nReturn on Investment: <strong>$535.19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The numbers &#8211; along with a chart &#8211; can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streamingcolour.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/the-numbers-post-aka-brutal-honesty\/\">developer&#8217;s blog<\/a>. After that post went up it was linked on Slashdot, which led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streamingcolour.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/the-slashdot-effect\/\">this follow-up post<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just posting this here so that the next time I think I have an idea for an &#8220;awesome&#8221; indie game I can re-read this and then hit myself in the face with my Xbox 360 power brick until I snap out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/indie-paths-to-fortune-and-glory-not-so.html\">Jay Barnson<\/a> for pointing to that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game: Dapple Total Development Time: Six Months Platform: iPhone Development Costs: $32,000 Response: Favorable reviews, including a positive review on Kotaku Return on Investment: $535.19 The numbers &#8211; along with a chart &#8211; can be found on the developer&#8217;s blog. After that post went up it was linked on Slashdot, which led to this follow-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}