{"id":13355,"date":"2024-02-15T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/stroke-of-genius-how-one-developer-earned-over-250k-from-games-made-in-just-30-minutes\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:37:52","slug":"stroke-of-genius-how-one-developer-earned-over-250k-from-games-made-in-just-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/stroke-of-genius-how-one-developer-earned-over-250k-from-games-made-in-just-30-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke of genius? How one developer earned over \u00a3250k from games made in just 30 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 120,000 PlayStation users have paid \u00a33.29 to pet virtual hamsters, dogs and beavers. What\u2019s behind this madness?<\/p>\n<p>Game development is an expensive and time-consuming business. Right now, 2,000 people are working on the next instalment in Ubisoft\u2019s blockbuster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/assassin-s-creed\">Assassin\u2019s Creed<\/a> series, across 18 studios around the globe, and it\u2019s a project that will take 2 to 3 years. Imagine how any of those people might feel to learn that last year, a self-taught programmer racked up nearly \u00a3280,000 from a series of games he made while sitting in his pants on hot days in a two-bedroom flat in Harlesden. And that each one took him about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first one, I\u2019ll be honest, probably took seven or eight hours,\u201d says TJ Gardner. \u201cBut the subsequent ones \u2013 Stroke the Beaver, for example \u2013 would have taken about half an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/feb\/15\/stroke-of-genius-how-one-developer-created-a-hit-game-in-just-30-minutes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7f6f895faab23e28a95e5fcc8c1c1b2dbfce074a\/401_109_3233_1940\/master\/3233.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3cd273d3d3160aaec561b2c302765915\" title=\"Stroke of genius? How one developer earned over \u00a3250k from games made in just 30 minutes\" \/>More than 120,000 PlayStation users have paid \u00a33.29 to pet virtual hamsters, dogs and beavers. What\u2019s behind this madness?<br \/>\nGame development is an expensive and time-consuming business. Right now, 2,000 people are working on the next instalment in Ubisoft\u2019s blockbuster Assassin\u2019s Creed series, across 18 studios around the globe, and it\u2019s a project that will take 2 to 3 years. Imagine how any of those people might feel to learn that last year, a self-taught programmer racked up nearly \u00a3280,000 from a series of games he made while sitting in his pants on hot days in a two-bedroom flat in Harlesden. And that each one took him about 30 minutes.<br \/>\n\u201cThe first one, I\u2019ll be honest, probably took seven or eight hours,\u201d says TJ Gardner. \u201cBut the subsequent ones \u2013 Stroke the Beaver, for example \u2013 would have taken about half an hour.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 120,000 PlayStation users have paid \u00a33.29 to pet virtual hamsters, dogs and beavers. What\u2019s behind this madness? Game development is an expensive and time-consuming business. Right now, 2,000 people are working on the next instalment in Ubisoft\u2019s blockbuster Assassin\u2019s Creed series, across 18 studios around the globe, and it\u2019s a project that will &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/stroke-of-genius-how-one-developer-earned-over-250k-from-games-made-in-just-30-minutes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stroke of genius? How one developer earned over \u00a3250k from games made in just 30 minutes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}