{"id":16830,"date":"2026-08-31T18:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:31:16","slug":"cheaper-faster-more-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16830","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper, faster, more simple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made Marble&#8217;s Marbles in less than 2 months and in the first month of sales it has a gross of over $30K!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the steam page for the game: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4137920\/Marbles_Marbles\">https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4137920\/Marbles_Marbles<\/a> and a short video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/1r3ahi2\/i_made_a_game_in_2_months_and_it_earned_30000_no\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/1r3ahi2\/i_made_a_game_in_2_months_and_it_earned_30000_no\/\">his Reddit posting<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, this seems to echo getting things done fast, simply, and focus on the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43U7NiM55TY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made Marble&#8217;s Marbles in less than 2 months and in the first month of sales it has a gross of over $30K! Here is the steam page for the game: https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4137920\/Marbles_Marbles and a short video of his Reddit posting. Again, this seems to echo getting things done fast, simply, and focus on the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4ns","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16831,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions\/16831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}