Random Rants 91 - Semiprimal Rage

[warpus]

Goats jumping around is just so fascinating to watch. They are not only cute, but also soo good at keeping balance. The photos on the site I linked makes them look quite beautiful and majestic. It's hard for me to not think fondly of them.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

@Kyriakos: Goats are nature's lawn mowers, as long as you make them understand that they have to leave the flowers and bushes alone. They also provide milk and cheese, which don't necessitate killing them. We had a couple of goat when I was a baby. I apparently had an intolerance of cow's milk then, but could handle goats' milk just fine.

 

[Birdjaguar]

What's so special about goats?
They are good at climbing, but probably not much else.

Goats make wonderful pets if you have some outdoor space. We used to take ours on walks. They will love you back.

 

[warpus]

It'll say "May contain nuts" but never "Definitely contains raisins"

 

[amadeus]

I'm doing some design stuff and that means a hunt for a (license-free) font. First, blast-fax kudos all around for the immense quality of free downloadable fonts out there. My gripe, however, is as follows: some of the names of the fonts are unnecessarily long, too artsy, or obscene. Mexican Basement Sex on Tuesday Morning? The Grizzled Mountain Man Eats Eggos Next to Dinosaurs? The good thing is that these weird-named ones aren't the ones I'm looking for.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm doing some design stuff and that means a hunt for a (license-free) font. First, blast-fax kudos all around for the immense quality of free downloadable fonts out there. My gripe, however, is as follows: some of the names of the fonts are unnecessarily long, too artsy, or obscene. Mexican Basement Sex on Tuesday Morning? The Grizzled Mountain Man Eats Eggos Next to Dinosaurs? The good thing is that these weird-named ones aren't the ones I'm looking for.

I use CoolText. I don't remember the font names being TOO weird.

 

[Kyriakos]

How marketing works:
For a while, I had a collection of city graphics (sprites) up, selling for $4. Rarely would anyone buy.
Now tried to make a budget sale, but first set the price to $7 and the discount sell to $4.90. Of course someone took advantage and bought.

Tbh I think they should be at least at $10, given there are 40 distinct gfx there... But if I go that way I will set the price at 20 and have just over 50% off to lure the buyers

 

[amadeus]

Did the sale get more people to see it? The sale itself might have generated more traffic, so they wouldn’t of course have known it was once $4.

Sometimes people are motivated by the fear of potential loss more than potential gains, but not all the time.

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes, I think Itch will promote discount sales, although afaik most of the people who bought the gfx came from either twitter or reddit.

 

[amadeus]

I just realized one of the sentences I wrote didn’t make much sense. You know, this is why I generally like to publish on first draft because even if its bad at least it retains a little bit of coherency.

What game was it for?

 

[Kyriakos]

I just realized one of the sentences I wrote didn’t make much sense. You know, this is why I generally like to publish on first draft because even if its bad at least it retains a little bit of coherency.

What game was it for?

It's general purpose, for games that use isometric gfx: https://kyriakosch.itch.io/10-states

In your view (if you have experience buying gaming assets) what price would be logical/realistic? I do think that $4 actually dissuades people from buying, since they think the work must be trash to cost so little

(for reference, 9 of the 40 gfx)

They are in a style suited to CivIII. Actually, all of these have been in civIII mods of mine, but people who buy from Itch have a license to use in their own commercial game (this can't be done if you dl a file from the CFC database).

 

[amadeus]

@Kyriakos, I’ll have to give you a “no clue” on the pricing part. I don’t know how many game designers are out there that source graphics from stock. I would imagine the more lucrative path is to use your portfolio to demonstrate your style and then work one-on-one with designers if you want to put in the work for that.

 

[Kyriakos]

@Kyriakos, I’ll have to give you a “no clue” on the pricing part. I don’t know how many game designers are out there that source graphics from stock. I would imagine the more lucrative path is to use your portfolio to demonstrate your style and then work one-on-one with designers if you want to put in the work for that.

That's true. Moreover, clients can directly pay you, through paypal, which means you don't give half of the pay to a company. And Itch (since it is a US company) takes away almost 60%, due to factoring in tax for Greece.
A client could easily pay $20 for just 4 of the graphics (I have sold like that, though rarely).

 

[Takhisis]

It'll say "May contain nuts" but never "Definitely contains raisins"

But raisins are a good thing. Unless you get sultanas. *shudders*

 

[warpus]

I can't stand raisins inside of baked goods. It's not the taste, it's the texture. It's just wrong. It's dense and chewy and just does not belong inside a fluffy and moist baked good your teeth can easily slice through.

I can eat raisins on their own as a snack np. But put them in something and I consider it a crime against humanity

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, in baked goods? Some people insist on putting them inside empanadas, with otherwise delicious ground beef and olives. Or sultanas in blood sausage. Urgh!

 

[The_J]

How marketing works:
For a while, I had a collection of city graphics (sprites) up, selling for $4. Rarely would anyone buy.
Now tried to make a budget sale, but first set the price to $7 and the discount sell to $4.90. Of course someone took advantage and bought.

Not exactly ow marketing works, since this is illegal (at least in some countries on this planet)
https://www.lawpublish.com/ftc-decprice.html

FTC GUIDES AGAINST DECEPTIVE PRICING

§233.1 Former price comparisons.

(a) One of the most commonly used forms of bargain advertising is to offer a reduction from the advertiser's own former price for an article. If the former price is the actual, bona fide price at which the article was offered to the public on a regular basis for a reasonably substantial period of time, it provides a legitimate basis for the advertising of a price comparison. Where the former price is genuine, the bargain being advertised is a true one. If, on the other hand, the former price being advertised is not bona fide but fictitious -- for example, where an artificial, inflated price was established for the purpose of enabling the subsequent offer of a large reduction -- the ``bargain'' being advertised is a false one; the purchaser is not receiving the unusual value he expects. In such a case, the "reduced" price is, in reality, probably just the seller's regular price.

Let me know if you have any more questions about law-related items .

 

[Kyriakos]

Not exactly ow marketing works, since this is illegal (at least in some countries on this planet)
https://www.lawpublish.com/ftc-decprice.html



Let me know if you have any more questions about law-related items .

You can change the price to whatever in such sites and immediately have a discount, mr Gestapo
It'd probably be still a non-issue if I had claimed there that the product was never available for less.

Besides, I don't plan to make the stable price less than the current $7. It was $4 for something like 2 months.

 

[The_J]

You should maybe read the rest :

The advertiser should be especially careful, however, in such a case, that the price is one at which the product was openly and actively offered for sale, for a reasonably substantial period of time, in the recent, regular course of his business, honestly and in good faith -- and, of course, not for the purpose of establishing a fictitious higher price on which a deceptive comparison might be based.

They also give an exact sample of what you did a bit further down lol.

 

[Kyriakos]

You ruin the fun