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Dicky Dick. Should I close my company?

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RobD88

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This might be the strangest thread i've read on here.

Maybe advertise on all the big porn sites to download your app? Of course, I wouldn't know the names of any of those.....

You missed the fact that his app was banned from all of the app stores for violating policy. No dicks allowed. No app stores, no app sales.
 
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You can sell the .APK android app outside of google play, using 3rd party stores or direct download.
Instead of an app, you can try to create a PC game and sell on steam.
Or create a Web game and put on gamejolt(dont know what their dick policy is), or itch.io
you seem to have the art style worked out, maybe create a cartoon series on youtube?

At any rate, you'll find out how much potential Dicky Dick really has.
 

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You can sell the .APK android app outside of google play, using 3rd party stores or direct download.
Instead of an app, you can try to create a PC game and sell on steam.
Or create a Web game and put on gamejolt(dont know what their dick policy is), or itch.io
you seem to have the art style worked out, maybe create a cartoon series on youtube?

At any rate, you'll find out how much potential Dicky Dick really has.
If Dicky couldn't be at Google Play, I don't think it can be in youtube. Anyway, I tried to contact with some cartoon creators but they did not answer.

Thank you for the webpages, I didn't know them. I will try with them ;-)
 
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My humblest of apologies to the lady's on this forum for this thread.

This is a joke right? Is someone really "shocked" that their dicky dick game was yanked from google play? Or that amazon put a dick-sock on dicky dick?

I know Mr. Demarco really doesn't like to pull posts off his forum. But come on. Surely MJ can be a dictator on this one thread, this thread has to be ejected.
 

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My humblest of apologies to the lady's on this forum for this thread.

This is a joke right? Is someone really "shocked" that their dicky dick game was yanked from google play? Or that amazon put a dick-sock on dicky dick?

I know Mr. Demarco really doesn't like to pull posts off his forum. But come on. Surely MJ can be a dictator on this one thread, this thread has to be ejected.

Why should you apologize. As far as I know the ladies here aren't snowflakes and probably not offended by a stupid cartoonish body part.

This stuff isn't offending. Childish and immature yes, but not offending.
 
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Kayne West's priceless advice to aspiring people from the link above, is to channel all your sexual energy into whatever you do, in this case, fastlane businesses:

"People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age," he said.

"Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.
"
 
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Hello, everybody,
How are you doing?
I am writing to you because I have a decision to make and I think there are many people here who can help me.

The background
Five years ago we set up a company among 5 friends. A close friend is a graphic designer and I am a professional game developer. We had an idea and wanted to launch it legally, so we set up a company. The other three friends joined the team. Although only 1 had a technical profile, they wanted to participate and we thought they could contribute other things.


The project
The project is based on a character who created a friend of ours and whose intellectual property we have registered. The character's name is Dicky Dick, and it's a caricatured penis. The idea was to take that character and put it in a game, as a virtual mascot, like a tamagochi. The character worked very well because it was Cartoon, Disney type, so it was funny without being ordinary. The character had a lot of possibilities and everyone who showed it loved it.
At that time I wasn't working and in a few months I was able to have it finished and we launched it in the Android store.

The Business Model
The business model was based on two fronts.
The game
The game had publicity and micropayments. With the micropayments you could buy points, and with the points you could buy things inside the game (costumes mostly)
Merchandising
Where we saw the most possibilities was in merchandising. Our idea was that the game would make the character famous and then license him to sell items with his image.

Reception
If any of you have uploaded applications to a store like Google Play, you will know that there are many applications and it is very difficult to highlight. We lead to being in the top 100 of free games (I think we hit 40 at the best time)
When the game was going better (it was beginning to have traction and to be downloaded in a more massive way), Google took it from the store for not complying with its conditions of use. Although we complained to Google, there was no way. The game was out of the store.
At that time we had 33000 downloads, a 3.78/5 average score and we had about 70 euros in revenue per month.
The revenues might seem small, in fact they were, but they had increased exponentially, we had no expenses and our idea was to have several products of the same style as once.

After being banned
The ban left us completely stunned. The other guy and I, the two of us who knew more about development, are already working and we couldn't spend so much time at the company.
We spent about 3 years trying to reinvent ourselves, doing virtual reality projects and stuff like that. In the end, only the two original companions stayed.
The last thing we've done has been to remake the entire game, from scratch, so that it can be compatible on more platforms and give it more quality. The result of redoing the game from scratch:
  • Amazon store won't admit it
  • We tried it again at the Google Store and were banned again.
  • The only place where we have the game available is on our website, because they can't take it from us.


We also made a Marketing dossier and sent it to everything we could think of (erotic shops, game creators, comic book creators, online animation series creators, LGBTB associations, etc.), but without much success.

The Decission
I really don't regret undertaking this project. For me the most frustrating thing has been the bureaucratic issue. You have a project on your hands, you spend most of your energy and money on things that don't add value to your business. Perhaps if I were to start again, I would not start a company, I would take out the product and then if I had a considerable income I would consider formalizing the situation.
The decision I'm facing is to definitively close down the company.
I still think that the idea is a good one, but after so many years without it taking off and after dedicating so many hours and so much effort to it, I think there comes a time when we have to give up and move on to other things.
I'm sure that many of you have been in the same situation, in a project that you have dedicated a lot of effort and that there comes a time when you have to let it go.

What do you think?
Thank you very much for your opinions.

Resources:
Dicky Dick
Dicky Dick
Dicky Dick (@dickydickgame) | Twitter
Dicky Dick
Dicky Dick - Direct Download All Google Play Apps - AllFreeAPK.com
https://shop.spreadshirt.es/dickydick/



There is one problem:
In the DeMarco Fastlane book, they mentioned that one should not rely on anything above too heavily, e.g. a Google algorithm change must not be able to damage business too much.
 

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Hello, everybody,
How are you doing?
I am writing to you because I have a decision to make and I think there are many people here who can help me.

The background
Five years ago we set up a company among 5 friends. A close friend is a graphic designer and I am a professional game developer. We had an idea and wanted to launch it legally, so we set up a company. The other three friends joined the team. Although only 1 had a technical profile, they wanted to participate and we thought they could contribute other things.


The project
The project is based on a character who created a friend of ours and whose intellectual property we have registered. The character's name is Dicky Dick, and it's a caricatured penis. The idea was to take that character and put it in a game, as a virtual mascot, like a tamagochi. The character worked very well because it was Cartoon, Disney type, so it was funny without being ordinary. The character had a lot of possibilities and everyone who showed it loved it.
At that time I wasn't working and in a few months I was able to have it finished and we launched it in the Android store.

The Business Model
The business model was based on two fronts.
The game
The game had publicity and micropayments. With the micropayments you could buy points, and with the points you could buy things inside the game (costumes mostly)
Merchandising
Where we saw the most possibilities was in merchandising. Our idea was that the game would make the character famous and then license him to sell items with his image.

Reception
If any of you have uploaded applications to a store like Google Play, you will know that there are many applications and it is very difficult to highlight. We lead to being in the top 100 of free games (I think we hit 40 at the best time)
When the game was going better (it was beginning to have traction and to be downloaded in a more massive way), Google took it from the store for not complying with its conditions of use. Although we complained to Google, there was no way. The game was out of the store.
At that time we had 33000 downloads, a 3.78/5 average score and we had about 70 euros in revenue per month.
The revenues might seem small, in fact they were, but they had increased exponentially, we had no expenses and our idea was to have several products of the same style as once.

After being banned
The ban left us completely stunned. The other guy and I, the two of us who knew more about development, are already working and we couldn't spend so much time at the company.
We spent about 3 years trying to reinvent ourselves, doing virtual reality projects and stuff like that. In the end, only the two original companions stayed.
The last thing we've done has been to remake the entire game, from scratch, so that it can be compatible on more platforms and give it more quality. The result of redoing the game from scratch:
  • Amazon store won't admit it
  • We tried it again at the Google Store and were banned again.
  • The only place where we have the game available is on our website, because they can't take it from us.


We also made a Marketing dossier and sent it to everything we could think of (erotic shops, game creators, comic book creators, online animation series creators, LGBTB associations, etc.), but without much success.

The Decission
I really don't regret undertaking this project. For me the most frustrating thing has been the bureaucratic issue. You have a project on your hands, you spend most of your energy and money on things that don't add value to your business. Perhaps if I were to start again, I would not start a company, I would take out the product and then if I had a considerable income I would consider formalizing the situation.
The decision I'm facing is to definitively close down the company.
I still think that the idea is a good one, but after so many years without it taking off and after dedicating so many hours and so much effort to it, I think there comes a time when we have to give up and move on to other things.
I'm sure that many of you have been in the same situation, in a project that you have dedicated a lot of effort and that there comes a time when you have to let it go.

What do you think?
Thank you very much for your opinions.

Resources:
Dicky Dick
Dicky Dick
Dicky Dick (@dickydickgame) | Twitter
Dicky Dick
Dicky Dick - Direct Download All Google Play Apps - AllFreeAPK.com
https://shop.spreadshirt.es/dickydick/
They can not stop you from working.
 

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Kayne West's priceless advice to aspiring people from the link above, is to channel all your sexual energy into whatever you do, in this case, fastlane businesses:

"People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age," he said.

"Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic.
"

Straight out of Think and Grow Rich.

Despite the negative connotations of hip-hop (and for good reason), there's an interesting number of artists who are well read. 2Chainz for example, with the famous line, "I call her big booty cuz she has a big booty." Graduated college with a 4.0. (might or might not be true) Or the interview between Warren Buffett and Jay Z.

But one thing Think and Grow Rich misses is sexual retention. Tibetan monks have an interesting take on this, but I won't go into detail since it's against forum rules. Worth looking up on your own time.
 
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Listen... it's bad...

BUTT... most of the people on this forum haven't ever done jack...

... off of the list of people who responded here -- who knows if they've ever made money playing with themselves or others with a game they created and sold...

... as someone who normally has to pay to play with others I can appreciate what you've tried to do here...

... and you should not just celebrate, you should ejaculate with joy, for accomplishing something... but more importantly for the maturity to finish and move on...

Maybe you need a little time to yourself -- some solo time, if you will... to imagine where you can come and go next...
 

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Listen... it's bad...

BUTT... most of the people on this forum haven't ever done jack...

... off of the list of people who responded here -- who knows if they've ever made money playing with themselves or others with a game they created and sold...

... as someone who normally has to pay to play with others I can appreciate what you've tried to do here...

... and you should not just celebrate, you should ejaculate with joy, for accomplishing something... but more importantly for the maturity to finish and move on...

Maybe you need a little time to yourself -- some solo time, if you will... to imagine where you can come and go next...

You forgot this...

Joseph-Ducreux.jpg
 

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Listen... it's bad...

BUTT... most of the people on this forum haven't ever done jack...

... off of the list of people who responded here -- who knows if they've ever made money playing with themselves or others with a game they created and sold...

... as someone who normally has to pay to play with others I can appreciate what you've tried to do here...

... and you should not just celebrate, you should ejaculate with joy, for accomplishing something... but more importantly for the maturity to finish and move on...

Maybe you need a little time to yourself -- some solo time, if you will... to imagine where you can come and go next...

Maybe he needs some 1 on 1 coaching from The Well Defined Man? Next game on the list is... Mercedes the Dominatrix. I hear, she is super sweet and caring.
 

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My gf would disagree with you on this. She even says "it's strong af"... whatever that means. :)
You better be careful with her!

Not sure what I would think if I woke up at 3am and my old lady was playing a dick game.
 
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You better be careful with her!

Not sure what I would think if I woke up at 3am and my old lady was playing a dick game.

It's eerily freaky that you mention 3am, because all last week she kept waking up at roughly that time, trying to play it with me. Do I need to check for cameras?! haha
 

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