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11-25-2008, 02:25 PM
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Trism spells success for iPhone developer
Puzzle game lands quarter-million jackpot
By Mike Smith
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Turning your passion into your profession is the dream of every hobbyist, but one amateur game developer turned that dream into reality with a smash hit iPhone puzzle game, CNN reports this week.
Steve Demeter wrote "Trism", a sliding-block, color-matching puzzle game, in his spare time, and put it on Apple's App Store for $4.99. Just two months later, the game had earned Demeter over $250,000, and prompted him to quit his day job at a bank and start a development studio.
Demeter's studio, Demiforce, is working on five new games, including the sequel to Trism.
Want to get in on the action yourself? Go right ahead: companies like Apple and Microsoft (with the Xbox 360's new Community Games channel) have begun to provide bedroom developers easy, low-cost ways to develop on hardware that was once closed off to all but the biggest games makers. But with low barriers to entry comes lots of competition. Over 1,500 games are currently available on the iPhone's App Store, according to CNN, compared to about 900 two months ago.
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11-25-2008, 03:11 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Dang.....I have this cool idea for a game where these different shaped blocks will fall towards the bottom of the screen and you have to stack them so they make complete rows across the bottom. When a row is complete, it would disappear. Now I really want to figure it out all the way.
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11-25-2008, 03:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | My idea had something to do with a chicken trying to cross the road, and then for some reason a river, and there's be cars, and crocs, and logs, and some chicken feed on the other side. Thats why the chicken crossed the road.
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11-25-2008, 07:22 PM
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11-26-2008, 09:42 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Everytime I try to think of a game my thoughts degenerate into pron.  |
11-26-2008, 09:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bridgewater, Virginia | | | what would i buy with $250,000? basses, bass amp combos and stuff like that, bass effect pedals, food.
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11-26-2008, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Everytime I try to think of a game my thoughts degenerate into pron. | There's probably a pretty big market for pron games I bet... 
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11-27-2008, 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by dinghy There's probably a pretty big market for pron games I bet... | Specialy those that only require a single hand to be played!
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11-27-2008, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Specialy those that only require a single hand to be played! | ahahahahaha!!!!   | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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