Failure rates of Roguelike Games - rec.games.roguelike.development

Message from discussion Failure rates of Roguelike Games
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From: Jeff Lait <torespondisfut...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Failure rates of Roguelike Games
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:46:34 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 2, 11:19=A0am, "Auric__" <not.my.r...@email.address> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:29:02 GMT, Jeff Lait wrote:
> > It is now time for my sixth annual analysis of roguelike game
> > development. =A0I shall first present some dubious statistics and then
> > you shall complain that they don't accurately reflect roguelike
> > development.
>
> Do you keep track of vaporware? (Games that are announced (or at least
> mentioned as being in development) but *never* release anything.)

Nope.  I only track things that have at least one release of a
downloadable version of the game.
--
Jeff Lait
(POWDER: http://www.zincland.com/powder)