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Hey cpeterso the first cab was somewhere between 3500 and 4K to build but we did all the labor. If you calculate that into the equation, it's more like 20K. Our
by nmikros 12y ago
Hey cpeterso the first cab was somewhere between 3500 and 4K to build but we did all the labor. If you calculate that into the equation, it's more like 20K. Our current cabinets are more expensive, they retail at 12K, so it's not the kind of thing you will buy for your room. They are built in Wisconsin, are of higher quality and also feature better TVs. We'll ship wherever. They include a coin door and are really made for public spaces like arcades, bars, student unions etc. We're figuring out how much money can be made on them and it's looking very good that you can recoup the money in less than a year if it's in a well trafficked area. Our goal is to get them closer to 10K or less. Believe it or not the computer is only about 400 of those dollars, the bulk of the money is the cabinet, joysticks and TVs. We are looking at ways to make them cheaper but we'd have to build quite a few of them to get economies of scale working for us.
As far as game play tweaks, it's not really any one big thing, it's more about little tiny changes that we keep doing in response to tournament performance. We did change the way the soldiers look and made variants on the workers so they are easier to distinguish from each other. The big changes have been in making it Arcade ready, adding an attract screen, music, code for taking money, UI elements to let people know that the game is about competing with the other cabinet, instructions etc.
- cpeterso 12y agoThanks for the details. I missed Killer Queen at California Extreme 2013. Are you going to California Extreme 2014? :)