{"author_name":"PoV","cat":"October Challenge 2011","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 30, 2011 7:54 am","epoch":1317387240,"text":"In our Halloween game competition, you can win &gt;$30<br \/>\n That would suffice as a backup plan!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Killswitch","time":"October 1, 2011 1:33 am","epoch":1317450780,"text":"Wait, I have to submit my game both in a Market Place and to this Website? \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Killswitch","time":"October 1, 2011 1:37 am","epoch":1317451020,"text":"Wait, I have to submit my game both in a Market Place and to this Website? \ud83d\ude00 By the way, how do you submit a game in Desura.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Killswitch","time":"October 1, 2011 7:07 pm","epoch":1317514020,"text":"Oh wait, another question: Can I add my game in the list and you&#8217;ll submit it in the market?","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1317303660,"likes":12,"metadata":{"p_key":"63474","p_author":"PoV","p_authorkey":"19","p_urlkey":"99259","p_title":"October 2011 Opportunities","p_cat":"October Challenge 2011","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1317303660","p_likes":"12","p_comments":"8","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"19","us_name":"PoV","us_username":"pov","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a number of messages about opportunities people can utilize to reach the goal, so I&#8217;ve decided to collect them in one place. If you&#8217;d like to share one, post a comment below or send a tweet to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikekasprzak\">@mikekasprzak<\/a>.<\/p>\n <h2>Opportunities<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>PC (Windows &#038; Linux) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desura.com\/\"><strong>Desura<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Henl3y\/statuses\/119303888573698048\">Looking for quality indie games<\/a><\/li>\n <li>PC (Linux) &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameolith.com\/\">Gameolith<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Gameolith\/status\/119395482920431616\">90% royalty rate until December<\/a><\/li>\n <li>Web &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/appdeveloper.intel.com\"><strong>Intel AppUp<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/appdeveloper.intel.com\/en-us\/contest\/developerchallenge\">First 200 quality apps win $250 USD<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>Launching or Closing Soon<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>All &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igf.com\"><strong>Independent Games Festival<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Highly regarded event with cash prizes, due Oct 17th<\/li>\n <li>PC (Windows &#038; Mac) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiecity.com\/\"><strong>Indie City<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; New Indie Games portal coming soon<\/li>\n <li>Web (Flash) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flashplatformruntimes\/flashplayer11\/\"><strong>Flash Player 11<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Launching Soon (3D). Release Candidate Available<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>Marketplaces<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Mobile (Android) &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/publish\/\">Android Marketplace<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Android phones and tablets (<strong>$25 one time fee<\/strong>)<\/li>\n <li>Mobile (Android) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amazon.com\"><strong>Amazon App Store<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Amazon Fire Tablet (<strong>First year free then $99 year<\/strong>)<\/li>\n <li>Mobile (Apple) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/devcenter\/ios\/index.action\"><strong>iOS App Store<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; iPhone, iPod touch, iPad (<strong>$99 year<\/strong>)<\/li>\n <li>PC (Mac) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/devcenter\/mac\/index.action\"><strong>Mac App Store<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Apple&#8217;s built-in App Store (<strong>$99 year<\/strong>)<\/li>\n <li>PC (Windows &#038; Linux) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desura.com\/\"><strong>Desura<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; PC Game and Mod storefront with a Steam-like client<\/li>\n <li>PC (Linux) &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameolith.com\/\">Gameolith<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Linux gaming store with 70% and 80% royalty rates<\/li>\n <li>Web (Flash &#038; Unity) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashgamelicense.com\/\"><strong>Flash Game License<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Put your games up for auction<\/li>\n <li>Web (Flash) &#8211; <strong>Flash Portals<\/strong> &#8211; Too many to list. Many can be contacted directly<\/li>\n <li>Web &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/developer\/dashboard\"><strong>Chrome Web Store<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Sell content to Chrome browser users (<strong>$5 one time fee<\/strong>)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <ul>\n <li>Mobile &#038; Web (Flash) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/us.blackberry.com\/developers\/\"><strong>Blackberry Developers<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Phones and Playbook Tablet<\/li>\n <li>PC &#038; Web &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/appdeveloper.intel.com\"><strong>Intel AppUp<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Windows and MeeGo (Linux) devices<\/li>\n <li>Mobile &#038; Console &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/create.msdn.com\">Microsoft App Hub<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; XBLIG and Windows Phone 7 (<strong>$99 year<\/strong>)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>Payments<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/payments.amazon.com\"><strong>Amazon Payments<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Payments powered by Amazon<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmtmicro.com\/\"><strong>BMT Micro<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Long time favorite of many PC\/Shareware authors<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/checkout.google.com\"><strong>Google Checkout<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Payments powered by Google<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.google.com\/inapppayments\/\"><strong>Google IAP<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; In App Payments by Google<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\"><strong>Paypal<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Old Faithful<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <h2>Resources<\/h2>\n <ul>\n <li>Mobile &#8211; Streaming Color&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streamingcolour.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/results-ios-game-revenue-survey\/\">iOS Developer Revenue Survey<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>","time":"September 29th, 2011 8:41 am","title":"October 2011 Opportunities"}