Experimental indie game Dear Esther is profitable - less than six hours after going on sale.
It sold over 16,000 units during its first day on sale (yesterday), its creators announced this afternoon.
thechineseroom and Robert Briscoe's £6.99 first-person ghost story paid off its financial backing from Indie Fund in just under five and a half hours after strong sales on Valve digital download platform Steam.
Dear Esther was originally released in 2008 as a mod for Half-Life 2 developed as part of a research project at the University of Portsmouth.
In 2009 Briscoe, a former environment artist on Mirror's Edge, took the project on, overhauling the visuals and level design for release as a commercial game.
Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-15-indie-game-dear-esther-profitable-in-less-than-six-hours
My prediction threads:
Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)
PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)
Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right
