Game Design, Programming and running a one-man games business…

And my next guest…

I did a pre-recorded interview for Canadian radio today. The show is question is this one:

http://www.cbc.ca/spark/

Because it’s a big proper national radio station, they wanted decent quality, so I had to go to the nearest radio studio which turned out to be the historic city of Bath, set for many a Jane Austen novel, and home of lovely bath stone, used for practically every house around here. It also meant having lunch in ye famous Bath Pump Rooms, a very old (1789) building, which just goes to show the elegance, care and grandeur with which people built everything back then. These days we build featureless glass boxes. Bah.

The show itself was quite good fun, I did feel a bit like frasier crane sat in front of a microphone with a light on the wall saying ‘on air’ (although it was pre-recorded). The show was about piracy, and involved me because of this blog post. I’m fine with doing that, but it’s a bit frustrating to be ‘the piracy guy’, just because I’m open about discussing it. There are a ton of hot topics in games I’d love to talk about, the mis-management of projects, development costs, sexism in games, game violence, game pricing, blah blah. Maybe next time :D


3 thoughts on And my next guest…

  1. so now, two years or so on from your “talking to pirates” thing and the changes you made in response, what were the results? did you see piracy increase or decrease for the title you removed DRM from? did you see sales increase or decrease (particulary when you reduced prices)?

    how about GSB? has it performed to your expectations from a business perspective? has the piracy been bad for it? (and how can you tell?)

  2. It’s hard to be definite about the results. I think that abandoning DRM definitely was a good move and likely did boost sales. Dropping prices didn’t have much of an effect but if anything it was negative. I don’t think the price is really the reason people pirate, although sometimes they may think it is or claim so, but the stats suggest otherwise. that’s just my games though, your mileage may vary etc…

  3. Excellent! I listen to the CBC every day — I’ll definitely try to catch your interview.

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