Hello Everyone,
we've been nagging long enough how hard it is as first-time VR developer to make any money - so of course we'd like to share good news with you too, as soon as they happen. So now, after selling Rainbow Reactor on Steam for 20 months, we can finally reveal that we broke even on our production cost of around 5000€ !
This is not a huge sum of money by any game's standard, and to be honest, Rainbow Reactor would've cost over 10 times more if it were a fully paid project. But we are happily working on the game in our spare time, so we're only counting what we had to actually spend in hard-won cash to get some things on board we couldn't have done ourselves.
And right after launching the game, it didn't look like we'd ever see that money again, to be honest. There are just too many VR games out there on Steam to get noticed, in total there are about 4000 now, out of which 90% do worse than us. So we are really proud that we managed to earn the trust of you, our audience :D
By steadily improving the game and adding new featues we managed to keep it interesting and relevant, even though we had no idea about marketing or distribution when we started out. That has hugely improved, and even though the money we make by selling games seems infinitely far away from creating a sustainable income, we decided to go all-in and found a "real" game company because we love VR so much! Soooo please welcome (* slow clap *) Tunermaxx Media GmbH into the realm of German Game Development Companies!
To celebrate this occasion and give you a chance to send a little tip of $1 our way if you like our work, we decided to heavily discount the game's original soundtrack. It has been available for some time and has also recently been upgraded – if you want to know, it now adds about 5% to the game's revenue for us.
So if you like, pick it up fpr just $1, or if you already have it, why don't you leave a review and tell your friends that the bundle of Game + OST is now decidedly cheaper than the game alone ;D
And while we'll still keep working on Rainbow Reactor, there are new exciting adventures ahead … so keep your eyes glued to this spot if you want to know more ^_^
All the best,
The Rainbow Reactor Team