Symbian 'bedroom' developer -> how-to sell your work

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Thu, 2005-08-25 12:24
Chris W
Joined: 2005-08-25
 Forum posts: 4
Hi,

I'm currently developing a game for Symbian 60 phones which I hope will be something fairly unique. Its my first time doing this for a mobile device and I have absolutely no experience of how-to market it when finished.

I want to try and make a profit from it but I can't find any resources on methods to market, distribute or sell mobile games successfully as a non-professional 'bedroom' Symbian developer.

Can anyone point me in the direction of online guides or personal experiences for:

- Completing a Symbian game for sale
- Best way to easily sell a game (directly, through reseller (Jamster etc), others)
- How to contact companies that maybe interested
- Marketing your game
- Accepting payments either from the public or resellers
- Copyrights and copy protection methods
- Pitfalls for the small developer
- Howto turn a decent profit & legal issues
- Creating a buisness identity

Any advice would be a great help as my internet searching has turned up nothing. I know this is a very big area with no particular right way to do it, but any personal success stories and guidance would be really good.

Cheers,
Chris.

Sun, 2005-08-28 03:12
tote
Forum Nokia Champion
Joined: 2003-10-01
 Forum posts: 723
Re: Symbian 'bedroom' developer -> how-to sell your work
To be honest, I'm not experiences in this area either, but my friend is selling his games through Handange and Nokia Software Market. As far as I remember he gets more money through Nokia SM as more people visit that site, or at least they spend their money more easily.  Tongue

I suggest you to check out these sites, see the conditions, perhaps contact them if you're uncertain about a few things.

Cheers,

tOtE

Gabor Torok
Software architect, Agil Eight (http://www.agileight.com/)
Blog: http://mobile-thoughts.blogspot.com/

 
Sat, 2005-10-01 11:25
halcyon
Joined: 2005-09-23
 Forum posts: 13
Re: Symbian 'bedroom' developer -> how-to sell your work
I'm in the same situation as you are (and many others too I think..). It would be interesting to get an answer from somebody who has done this before. (selling, marketing...)
 
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