Note: this article is NOT about the True Price of Indie Games.

There are about 164 overworld areas in The Real Texas, but a lot of those aren't used in the final game. So let's say there are more like around 100, that's a conservative estimate and also helps take into account the water, rocks or other landmass that isn't accessible.

@p Each square in the game is about 3ft in diameter, and each area is 50 x 50 squares. So let's round this out to 3 x 3 = 9 which is almost 10, and 50 x 50 = 2500 which means each overworld area is around 25000 sq ft.

@p Multiply this by the number of overworld areas and The Real Texas is about 2,500,000 sq ft -- and of course this doesn't include dungeons which are just as large.

@p 1 acre = 43560 sq ft, so The Real Texas is about 57 acres.

A quick search on LandWatch.com for rural Texas property suggests that maybe $1000 / acre would be very cheap for buying land. We're not talking Austin here, but maybe some backwoods muskeg if they have that and if I even know what the heck I'm talking about (not likely.)

@p So just in terms of acreage, The Real Texas really ought to sell for about $57,000 per copy.

Today it's on GOG.com as part of an Indie RPG bundle for $3.74 which is a savings of 99.99343%

2012-12-14

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