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getting started selling shareware games

This would probably now better be named "Getting started making indie games." Ah, whatever.

Good links:

• http://www.gmfsoftware.com/HowToPromoteSoftware.html
• http://ezinearticles.com/?Creating-A-Pad-File-To-Promote-Shareware&id=193008
• http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/14
• http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2005/09/20/getting-rich-slowly-from-shareware/
• http://www.business-opportunities.biz/archives/categories/ecommerce/
• http://www.dexterity.com/articles/
• http://www.semicolon.com/ShareSuccess/Shareware1.html
• http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/30/dev_osx.html
• http://www.asp-shareware.org/
• http://www.peter.com.au/programming/sharewareauthor.html
• http://www.peter.com.au/programming/sharewareauthor2.html
• http://www.scrawlsoft.com/products/common/hardnose.html
• http://www.raynersoftware.com/about/editorial_shareware.php
• http://www.codecomments.com/archive390-2005-6-516393.html
• http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/8R14.html
• http://www.sigsoftware.com/info/shareware.html
• http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=shareware
• http://www.ericsink.com/bos/Micro_ISV.html
• http://www.asp-shareware.org/users/history-of-shareware.asp
• http://sonicron.solaristudios.com
• http://www.indiegamescon.com/ !!!
• http://forums.indiegamer.com/
• http://www.pagdig.org/ !!!
• http://gamasutra.com
• http://makeitbigingames.com/blog/?p=20
• http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/71/how-much-does-an-average-casual-game-make
• http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1989.asp
• http://indygamer.blogspot.com/
• http://gpwiki.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4175
• http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Game_Content_Resources
• http://www.flyingyogi.com/fun/spritelib.html
• http://wilshipley.com/blog/WWDC_Student_Talk.pdf (in html)
• http://www.rampantgames.com/blo...games.html
• http://www.microisv.com/arc...7-days-can-it-be-done/ -- This guy created an extremely simple little program in a week (probably could even be done a lot faster than that) and then sold it on ebay for almost 20 bucks on average -- and sold 11 copies in his first day.