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Farm life revenue + Patreon Support

Hello Giants,

Farm Life was officially released a couple of days ago and the sales have been going better than I expected. Thank you for the kind words and for supporting Bearded Giant Games, I am immensely humbled by everyone’s reactions. I am glad you are enjoying the game and happy to provide one of the few premium Match 3 experiences for Linux!

Since it’s release Farm Life sold 27 copies totaling about 200$ in revenue. For a small indie that’s publishing a casual game for a platform as small, and lovely, as ours that’s amazing. It doesn’t sound like much but just think about it a little: most indie games releasing on Steam, at this point, barely recoup their 100$ fee to publish on the platform at the end of the month. For me this thought alone is amazing and enough to melt my bearded heart.

Here’s something that happened tho’: Quite a few users reached out to me and asked about other methods of payment for my game since they believe paypal is invasive. And I agree with that statement however, at this point, I cannot afford to integrate another payment method (and Stripe is not supported in Romania). This is why I decided to setup a Patreon page for the store. By pledging to support Bearded Giant Games on Patreon you’ll get access to all the games I release on the store (past, present and future), access to private releases on our Discord channel and many many many other goodies!

This way you can sidestep paypal and use other payment processors, support Linux Game Development (or at least, my little area of it) and put a big smile on this Bearded Giant’s Face. This is also a good way towards establishing a stable revenue stream for the future: The more my income from BGG stabilizes the more I can focus on it instead of doing more freelancing gigs. It will allow me to focus more on creating games like Farm Life and Ebony Spire! So head on over the Patreon page and become an officially pledged Giant! Then join our Discord server and join Sheo in bossing me around.