![]() ![]() Wired: The white-backdropped game screen and open-ended movements allow for awesome Toribash machinima. Steam Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where youre able to design your own moves. Singapore-based game developer Hampus Soderstrom says he tried at least six different business models, ranging from advertising support to giving away his fighting game Toribash for free.īoom or Blurst: A New Business Model for Videogames? 2009 ![]() Takeaways from GDC2009: Tuesday morning: Indies Alice 2009 The Indie Businessmanperson was a short and sweet panel: three indie developers, Toribash, Klei and Three Rings, spilling data on their business models. In Toribash, an online fighting game populated by characters that resemble ball-and-stick rag dolls, players design their own black-belt martial arts moves. In Toribash, players win credits with each victory, but they can also buy additional credits with real cash. To date, the game has received almost 30 official updates while gamers have played Toribash more than 3 million times on the official servers, with top players racking up 20,000-plus games.Įight months later, he had created Toribash (tori is the Japanese martial arts term for “the defender”). ![]() The average Toribash accessory sells for about $35 (or 35,000 Tori Credits), though Söderström says he recently sold special, limited-edition blood color (the game is often gruesome) for $500. In the last two years, Toribash has become a virtual community with more than 42,000 members. ![]()
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