New game engine: Buildbox

You must do something with your price tag though. Add a monthly subscription maybe or add trial or free software with limited features.

 

Ahh... probably, but it's good for a laugh right?

 

Buildbox fascinates me. Not in the way that I want to buy it but in the way that it found a market.

It's brilliant really. I mean the marketing for it is outstanding. There are many tools to create games via point and click. Some of them even free. Yet Buildbox is sold for a lot of money and from the look of it some copies were sold. The advantage with selling it at such a high price point is that you won't sell that much but you don't have to.

Also by keeping the user base relatively small you can focus on their specific needs and requirements so you can give good support. Thus keeping the existing user base happy who will then tell other people that they are happy and so generate more sales.

Someone posted a review a page back and in the comments someone from Buildbox replied and showed how they are working to fix the problems presented. I won't be surprised to see a followup article a month or two down the line where the reviewers say they are very happy with the product now that their problems have been sorted out.

Great marketing. Great idea.

 

It's great marketing the same way as a pyramid scheme is great marketing. ie, terrible marketing designed to draw in the highly gullible. The name itself is shared by a good dozen other completely different projects, the website and its endless wall of text going down and down looks like it was designed in the 90s by a teenager with ADHD.

The website design, product name, and price point all specify a certain demographic to me: idiots with thousands of extra dollars who want to make easy millions. I wouldn't expect any continuing support from the company; I doubt their user base is "happy" per se. More like "silent" or "nonexistent".

It's a clearly designed scheme: sell idiots a lame product for an absurdly high price because, in this day and age, and with the amount of idiots who think they're going to just shake a fistful of money and be video game millionaires, you only need a small fraction of idiots to come out of this with twenty or thirty grand.

 

Can anyone give an idea how much it will take to develop a software like Buildbox?

 

Depends. If you're making a game like flappy bird, it would take 10 minutes (according to the official website).

You'd have more luck asking on Buildbox forums rather than Unity forums though.

 

You are mistaken, these companies will give great support given that they have a niche existing customer base. The smaller the community is, the easier to keep everyone happy.

You should realize Buildbox user will indeed make money, given that they follow a certain rules to selling re-skinned apps.

Re-skinning popular apps is itself a huge part of the game industry, and is flooding the market just because it works.
If it won't make money, nobody will be flooding thouzands of Flappy bird/Angry bird/Clash of clans/Endless runner/Fruit ninja clones.

And yes, companies that make re-skinned clones does not want to be paying for programmers, they will literally be doing nothing. Which is why Buildbox exist. ($2600 is way cheaper than paying up a full-time programmer, and it will include package on how to be accepted in the appstore/playstore, selling, and marketing strategies.)

Everyone talking down on Buildbox, yes it is unethical practice within the game industry, but they make money and it works. There is always a bleak side of a matured industry (Not sure if games are already a mature industry, but these are signs they are getting into maturation).

Thouzand others of Indie dev will not be making the same money as these re-skin company works.

 

That was a two-year-old reply. This thread could get locked for being resurrected any time soon.