thread: 2012-03-13 : Indie POV pt 2: Does It Pay?
On 2012-03-14, timfire wrote:
There aren't any full-time COPs that I know of because the indie crowd dropped the expectation of working full-time at RPG publishing a long time ago. The old Forge crowd even actively discourages it.
That said, I think many designers could develop a full-time business if they so desired, though it would take some time.
IME, a moderately successful indie RPG will make around $20-30k (net profit) over the course of 5-ish years. I'll guess that translates to about $1.00 a word. So if someone decided to dedicate 40 hours a week to their RPG endeavors, and pumped out a game every 6 months or so, in 5 years they would be making $40-60k year.
And that would be for a moderately successful designer, not a superstar like Vincent.
