Man, I just realised that builds 19-22 were released in within less than a year of eachother.
Four builds in a year.

Hopefully B24 will really be worth the wait.

This has already been mentioned earlier on in the thread. And strangely Dan seems to be reliable when it comes to dealing with other indie game devs, yet he completely shuns his community.

He shuns his community because he needs to practice his unicycling. I, for one, understand and appreciate the sacrifice he is making.

He has two real friends: his muscles and his unicycle.

I will use a metaphor to describe the relationship between us and him:

A man is trapped in a slowly descending pit. His only way to remain where he is is to hold on to the antigravity cheeseburger that also happens to be down there. Now he is floating in mid air, slowly rising towards the surface, but his starvation is such that he knows someday he will have to eat the burger. He also knows that as soon as he does, he will fall to his death.

The man is Data.
The antigravity cheeseburger is DRLFF.
The slowly descending pit is Data's bank balance.

That is quite possibly the worst metaphor.

Like all people in this world, our bank balance is our key to life. Yet for most it is constantly disintegrating. DRLFF/CC may possibly be the only thing holding Data out of rock bottom, but someday he will have to admit that CC is a lost cause. Once he does so, we will collapse and cease to function. Data will have to find a new way out of his hole.

I was trying to find a way of describing how he needs us just as much as we want him back.

Are you doing something funky, or is this just how you normally think? Because that was probably one of the most ♥♥♥♥ up metaphors that didn't contain sexual references.

You do realize he probably has a job, right? I doubt CC is his primary source of income.

CC was is primary source of income for a bit, while sales were peaking. Then he bought a machine gun, and then he went off to another job.

Had. He quit his day job a while back.
And he used to work for NASA. So. I think he's set right now in regards to money.

Also, take this into account:
Notch has made 8883 sales in the last 24 hours. Multiply that by $13.84 (rounded up from $13.839455). That's $122,941 in 24 hours. Granted, he doesn't keep every bit of that, so let's radically reduce that more than it needs to be and say he makes $75,000 in 24 hours. That tiny number is still $525,000 per week, and $2,100,000 per month.

Now take those numbers and move the decimal place to the left one place for each of the resulting dollar amounts, and that is Data's income.
Or something like that.





By posting this I accept the fact that I may have ♥♥♥♥ all the calculations and/or the method. But I'm an engineer, not an accountant, dammit.

I'm pretty sure Data went back to work again, at some point after he quit NASA.

I was under the impression that he didn't have another job, but if he did, that would go some way to explaining the lengthy development times.

Win.



You want me to believe that Data makes $21,000,000 per month.

Uh

Honestly what the hell whitty :v I also really doubt that we sell OVER 9,000 copies of the game every 24 hours or so*. If we do, then CC is much more popular than I thought, and those thousands of people need to flood the forum.

*Couldn't resist.



^That's probably the most likely scenario IMO.

I also had no idea that Data had worked for NASA. Now I'm imagining him in space with his shirt off, unicycling inside a space shuttle.

That's prolly just a typo, cuz he worked for the NSA, not NASA.

He was talking about Notch.
Notch is the creator of a different game, minecraft.
Notch is an actually successful developer who posts semi-regular dev log updates, reads his forums and responds to user input. He has a devoted userbase which is growing daily.

There are no available sales figures for Cortex Command, but the userbase is getting pretty grouchy and stagnating. There is also much less forum activity.
Data does not regularly talk to fans or update his devlog.