Word count vs branching

[Eiwynn]

@Hanon_Ondricek - Just so you know where the OP is coming from, here is @jasonstevanhill 's post in question:

@jasonstevanhill

To be clear: the minimum word count of 20,000 for Hosted Games is total word count, not average play-through length.

You have to remember, it costs us about $1000 to review and publish a game to the different platforms. At a bare minimum, the game has to be long enough that readers will find the ads sufficiently annoying that some portion of them will pay $1 to turn them off. And it has to be in sufficient quantities so that we at least break-even on that proposition (so, > 1900 people have to pay $1 on a 20k word game in order for us to not lose money on it).

That said, we much prefer to publish games that we can charge $2 or $3 for, for example.

So, the 20,000 are actual words and not code. And the pricing you suggest is in play already as seen above.