Hey guys, here's some numbers for Colosseum. Since launch (11/19/08) to date Trial downloads since launch: 141 000 Purchases since launch: 6 500 Average conversion rate: 4,6 % For Q2 2009 April: 1 640 purchases, 14,4 % CR May: 640 purchases, 14 % CR June: 580 purchases, 12,8 % CR Comments As expected most ...

Seriously, there's no confirmation on this?

Thanks for the reply ZMan. It might sound a bit conformist, but it actually feels good to hear you telling stories of this having been done before, and how it has been handled. And yes, it's a huge different between a skilled-based competition/contest vs. a lottery. Lotteries are a jungle really, as I understand it. Well, I hope that we'll ...

Hey guys! Straight on, do you guys have any experiences of marketing through contests? The reason I ask is that we've recently launched our own game contest at our web site, www.shortfuse.se/contest.php. This is our first contest involving a prize (an Xbox 360 Elite). I know that contests are covered by many international, regional, and even ...

yeah, copyright it is, thanks.

To continue on Bellaferd's legal stuff. I recommend you all to have a look at this site http://www.copyright.gov/ to register both your company trademark and game title trademark. It's preatty cheap and a good start for us low budget indie devs to get some legal protection.

Hello guys. We released our game on launch day, and has since tried some different marketing stuff. As we're an indie developer, just like everybody else in here, we have no big buck marketing budget, hence we rely on community management and viral marketing. If you're interested, here's our experiences so far: Forums - ...

Hey you XNA-team guys. I've posted the PII and W-8BEN forms required in order to get paid. Though, it would be pretty nice to get a confirmation that you have recieved this properly. I'm not worried really, but I just don't want anything to go wrong since the future of my venture really depends on the May 2009 payment. So, it would be ...

Any news on solving this? Would be cool since Code 3 is a real bugger.

It would be great fun to meet you Weapon of Choice guys, and all other devs, again this soon! Though transatlantic flights ain't that cheap nowadays, so it we'll be attending another time. Best of luck and have a blast! /Johnny and the Colosseum team