I'm thinking about making writing my career

[Jackpot1776]

I can’t speak towards the financial side (don’t quote me haha but from what I’ve heard you get about 17 cents on every dollar. Links below might help more), but for I’m all for following your passion. Maybe talk to the more established authors here? See what they have to say?
Edit: Some quick math I did. if you sold one game a year for one dollar, you would need upwards of 80,000 downloads to make $15,000

What's an average revenue number for a Hosted Games title?

I would like to basically emphasize this idea that there is no real average. I have been involved now as co-author or author in 5 games, and there are massive differences between them. As @Felicity_Banks pointed out, Starship and Lost in the Pages have done pretty badly (I guess after several years they make 5-10 dollars each per month, divided by 4-5 authors… so, each of them buys you… a packet of chewing gums?). Tokyo Wizard and Highway Wars have done much better, and used to make 50-100 USD i…

Question about publishing

When planning to self-publish a game, which is the contract model to be followed is the same offered when it will publish a game for hosted games? When you do it yourself, you pay COG 25% and the Platform (Apple, Google, etc) 30%, and keep the rest. You have to put it up, which incurs a small fee and some know how. Hosted Games pays 30% to Platform, 25% to you, the rest to COG, but they put it up on all markets. The order of these percents changes the final totals. The choice of games is …

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@Astralise.Ink

would they say it has been worth the risk?

Ah, here I can’t say. I just write in my spare time when I dont have crushing amounts of school work haha. Good luck @Astralise.Ink!