{"id":37717,"date":"2023-02-03T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/dwarf-fortress-financials-mark-fairytale-ending-for-indie-developer\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:18:43","slug":"dwarf-fortress-financials-mark-fairytale-ending-for-indie-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/dwarf-fortress-financials-mark-fairytale-ending-for-indie-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Fortress financials mark fairytale ending for indie developer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a nutshell:<\/strong> Numerous tech giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple posted destructive quarterly and annual statements this week. Amidst the company gloom, it is good to see financials that inform a hopeful story for a small firm, particularly one behind a sport as standard as Dwarf Fortress. <\/p>\n

A month after the primary business launch of Dwarf Fortress, the sport’s developer revealed<\/a> this week that it earned $7.23 million in gross sales. Based on Bay 12 Video games’ comparability, the quantity eclipses returns from the earlier 4 months by two decimal factors.<\/p>\n

In every of the months between September and December 2022, Bay 12 Video games introduced in round $15,000, most of it possible from Patreon<\/a> donations. After providing the immensely standard Dwarf Fortress solely as freeware for 16 years, the corporate launched the primary business model on December 6, and some weeks later posted the astronomical January improve.<\/p>\n

In a publish on the Bay 12 boards, the builders say nearly half of the cash pays taxes. Nonetheless, after enterprise bills and payrolls, what’s left is well sufficient to alleviate the scare that originally pushed the Dwarf Fortress builders \u2013 brothers Zach and Tarn Adams \u2013 towards the paid launch mannequin.<\/p>\n