Predicted Budget £60k Artist £20k Game Designer £20k Writer £15k Audio / Music
Actual Budget Predicted Budget £47k Artist £19k Game Designer £17k Writer £14k Audio / Music
Also, look how close I was on the budget estimates! I literally forgot this document existed and wasn't referencing it to try to hit those targets or anything.
Gameplay: Controls remain the same, but the game shifts to a slower, persistent, resource management game through day-night cycles.
I don't know if there's a name for it, by my brain doesn't really remember what order things happened. And I just found the first pitch deck I made for Mythmatch and it has so many ideas that I THOUGHT we figured out way later in development. Like this description of the Mortal Realm gameplay.
If you’d like to read some 2,000 words on how the One More Catch launch went and how things are going, this is the blog for you:
I was about to dive down a rabbit hole of debugging a really weird rendering issue when I played Mythmatch on my TV and was saved by @autumnpioneer.bsky.social who told me to check if it was my TV just putting on weird settings. It was indeed that. 😅
What is an indie game but a collection of all of your deepest insecurities? 😭
Thank you! Art is by @tinystorm.bsky.social. I just named him after myself. Ha ha ha.
What is an indie game but a collection of all of your deepest insecurities? 😭
Two+ years of work by a wonderful dev team and lot of support to get to launch!
A winged purple cow with crescent moon horns and a star on his tail and stars across his body.
Every character in Mythmatch has some part of me like Hephaestus foolishly worshipping crunch, Penelope's anxiety over public scrutiny, Philo's struggle to make friends, and Artemis finding family based on values instead of blood.
But also, I named this cow Agamoomnon to get my name in the game.
I love sharing numbers so here's a video of how much we spent to make Mythmatch.
I break it down by time, discipline, and funding source.
youtu.be/cB5lanPUQ1o
Yeah. Having a great team can really minimize the amount of process required. But I will so also having most of the design and all of the programming within my brain reduced a TON of overhead. For most issues, I never even had to put it into words, if that makes any sense.
I'm sorry. 🫂
I hope that number came up for you eventually!
I didn't track it but production was very small. If I were to ballpark,
Programming - 40%
Design - 20%
Writing - 5%
QA - 15%
Marketing - 10%
Biz Dev - 5%
Production - 5%
Something like that. I had an amazing team that really only needed the lightest structure.
Awww! I love sharing information and it was nice to have a team where I never felt like I needed to sugar coat anything!
Lovely! Thank you!!
Always happy to share! Lemme know if there's anything else you'd want me to talk about!
No worries! Always love sharing and because I really really hate lying, it rarely has a much spin to it. Ha ha ha.
RIP Dionysus in Mythmatch. 😭
We really tried to make it work. We even made his minigame about tea making instead of alcohol to avoid ratings problems. But eventually, Hephaestus took his place and I think it was a much better fit.
In game development, it's very common not everything made it to the end. Dionysus is one of the gods that has a complete set of #characterdesign but sadly still been left behind. Never the less it was great fun design him. #indiegame #Mythmatch
This game's really cute and fun and the theme song is a banger
I'm planning to make one about how the game has sold so hopefully I'll have time to record that one soon!
Thank you! I hope so too, but also, I'm in a really privileged position with Knights and Bikes still selling well so I'm glad I was able to pay the team what I considered an acceptable wage. So getting anywhere into the positive numbers would make me happy.
Always happy to share. Let me know if there are ever any other numbers you want. Ha ha.
So if I got paid the same day rate for my time, the budget would have been £310k. So yeah... 💀
Thank you!
No worries. If there's anything specific I missed or you'd like me to dig deeper into, let me know!
A screenshot of a spreadsheet showing the day rate by discipline where Programming, which is Moo, is paid negative £67 per day and all other disciplines (Art, Writing, Design, Audio) are paid £250 per day.
And this made me laugh, but I calculated the day rate by discipline and I am the programming category. 😂
Hopefully that number will come up over time.
A pie chart showing the budget breakdown by discipline. Art: £47,000.00 (47.1%) Writing: £19,312.50 (19.3%) Design: £16,875.00 (16.9%) Audio: £14,375.00 (14.4%) Other: £2,250.00 (2.3%)
And the breakdown by discipline.
Art: £47,000.00 (47.1%)
Writing: £19,312.50 (19.3%)
Design: £16,875.00 (16.9%)
Audio: £14,375.00 (14.4%)
Other: £2,250.00 (2.3%)
