something i find interesting from the flash dev side of things - apparently this is all too familiar for them
https://twitter.com/jmtb02/status/1701981161692774726
Quote:why are veteran Flash devs saying "oh god not again?"
In 2012 Adobe announced a 9% fee on net revenue (over $50k) for using hardware acceleration + other modern features (especially those geared towards console/PC development)
Many flash devs made the move to Unity
Adobe will charge a royalty for use of “Premium features” in Flash Player
Quote:Adobe has announced that from August 1 2012, developers who make use of hardware-accelerated Stage3D in Flash Player, in combination with Domain Memory, will pay a 9% net revenue share as royalty. Net revenue is what remains after taxes, payment processing fees and “social network platform fees” (sounds like Facebook) are deducted.
this sounds like it would be lower-impact than the unity changes, but i remember hearing one time from a flash developer presentation that a lot of flash developers made a lot of money. according to a somewhat dubious source (below), some flash game websites back in the day (kongregate and armor games come to mind) gave developers money every time someone played their game
[Necro] how much money does a person make on armorgames?
Quote:The developers that don't work for Armor Games get ad revenue they receive from their games. Every time someone plays it they get a little bit and it adds up over time. An example would be Kongregate, I've submitted a flash game on there and I've received a dollar or two in ad revenue, but I only get about 40 cents of that because Kongregate takes some, the game I submitted has about 300 plays.
You can make a living off of being a developer, but your games have to be good. Or as some people do on Kongregate, submit a whole bunch of small flash games to get revenue.
Quote:As a developer, I can confirm that Armor offers a great deal for developers and are very easy to work with. If it has an Armor logo in it, then Armor has paid the developer hard cash. No exceptions.
apparently there is a page detailing sponsorship pay rates for armor games, but web archive is very slow right now and i cant grab it