Starting a Home Based Video Game Company

By HBNinja

Unless you’ve been living in the subterranean caverns on the planet mars for the past 20+ years, you know that video games are a worldwide, multi billion dollar, industry phenomenon. There probably isn’t anywhere on the face of our planet where someone or somebody isn’t sitting in front of a television screen or computer monitor, glued to their seats, playing 3D video games. Of course most people think that only the big boys like Electronic Arts, Nintendo and Konami can create and produce top selling video games. After all, they have huge amounts of money for research, development and distribution of highly sophisticated, 3D video games to sell to their waiting public.

So what about the independent game maker, who creates video games in his bedroom for fun or just to distribute to his close friends via the internet or on CD. Perhaps you’re one of those independent gaming gurus that have the creativity and the smarts to create your own video game. Did you ever consider that those video games you spend countless hours creating in your bedroom might be an avenue to starting your very own home based video game company? Instead of giving them away, why not put up a website, sell your games as downloads and possibly make a nice sum of extra money in the process.

Now if you are an experienced computer programmer and you’ve created what you think are top notch video games, think about this--Sell your games for money! If you’ve never considered the thought of selling video games you have produced, now is the time. Even though you may not be producing a multi million dollar game title like Halo, you still, with a little bit of creativity and moxy, can come up with a great game title that may have the possibility of selling enough games to a potential worldwide video gamer customer base by marketing your games via the internet.

Now suppose you have no programming background and you don’t know the difference between Java, BASIC and C++. Can you still create your own video games to sell? Believe it or not, the answer is “Yes.” By using a video game creation software program called FPS Creator you can accomplish this seemingly impossible feat. FBS Creator is created and sold by The Game Creators, a company located in our long lost, former mother country, Great Britain. For a software program that required no programming skills, with FPS Creator you can create some very nice looking 3D video games that you can sell via the internet or on CD.

With FPS Creator you can create some really bang for your buck action/fantasy video games. For creating lap based racing car driving games, first person shoot ‘em up games, space invader type games and 3D kid’s type games, you might want to check out 3D GameMaker which is another programming already done for you type game creator. You can even be the star of your games by using their simple picture grabber that will enable you to place your face on the in-game characters. You get to create various levels with background locations that you create and build from , characters and enemies with over 500 3D objects and over 320 sounds.

For more advanced, skilled programmers The Game Creators also have a game development software program called Dark Basic. Dark Basic is for experienced programmers. With Dark Basic you can create incredible 3D video games that will play on your computer.

One thing that you should be aware of regarding 3D GameMaker is that in order to have unlimited license to sell as many copies of the video games your produce using their software, you are required to pay a Unlimited Prodcut CD License, which is quite costly. The price of the license is $500.00, which, as stated, allows you to sell an unlimited number of games created with The 3D GameMaker Software. Whether you sell over the internet, via a store or distribution network, the license fee remains the same.

To determine if the above software programs are for you, check out The Game Creator websites at http://www.thegamecreators.com/ and http://www.fpscreator.com/ as well as http://t3dgm.thegamecreators.com/?f=index plus http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/

The main problem is that once you have finished creating your game, the big question and obstacle is how to sell it. Check out Protexis, a company that could help distribute your independent video games.