Indie: damn, missed that was tidying the garden :-). Also good point about me being approached for other work, that's true. Xmas and Easter Bonus are good portfolio items, if nothing else.
Tachyon: I agree that the Easter Bonus pirates would probably never have bought my game anyway.
Kuron: The thing is that (mainly) men buying shoot 'em ups etc in stores is NOT my target market. My target market is women over 35 that download puzzle games. If selling stores is the correct way to go, I'm surprised that more developers on this forum (and others) aren't going on about it all the time. I pretty sure the % you can expect is really small, like 10%, whereas on the web you could sell it yourself and get around 90% (after costs), which is why lots of people do it. Who knows though, I might look into it more for next Xmas and Easter. That's the other thing, I had very tight deadlines to do these games and get them out on time - to get them on CD and in stores would ahve taken way to long.
Tachyon: I agree that the Easter Bonus pirates would probably never have bought my game anyway.
Kuron: The thing is that (mainly) men buying shoot 'em ups etc in stores is NOT my target market. My target market is women over 35 that download puzzle games. If selling stores is the correct way to go, I'm surprised that more developers on this forum (and others) aren't going on about it all the time. I pretty sure the % you can expect is really small, like 10%, whereas on the web you could sell it yourself and get around 90% (after costs), which is why lots of people do it. Who knows though, I might look into it more for next Xmas and Easter. That's the other thing, I had very tight deadlines to do these games and get them out on time - to get them on CD and in stores would ahve taken way to long.