Immortal Defense isn't the first Game Maker project to go commercial (see Mr. Chubigan's
Shellblast and
MAGI), plus developers rarely reveal their
sales numbers to outsiders - hence it's a kind gesture by RPGCreations to publish not only sales stats but their marketing strategies as well, with the intention that the information can be of some use to other independent game developers. [
recent interviews]
Interestingly, Mr. Chubigans had also set himself a sales target of
fifteen copies for Shellblast each month (before being published on a major game portal), though no official numbers have been made public yet.
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