Zeus
10-15-2009, 07:29 AM
The creator of an Xbox controller message application has already netted himself a cool $60,000 and counting. Previously a porn star reviewed it on G4 and the product seems to be performing well for something that took just a few hours to make.
<blockquote>College senior Justin Le Clair may be the most commercially successful Xbox 360 developer of 2009. For four hours of work he's pocketed $60,000 and counting. His creation? An Xbox massage program, the first in a controversial trend.
"I threw it together in class," Le Clair told Kotaku during a phone interview this week. His creation, Rumble Massage, is no game. It's a program that makes an Xbox controller vibrate on command. It was launched in January through the Xbox Live Indie Games program, which enables amateur developers to sell peer-reviewed projects online through the Xbox 360.
Rumble Massage currently sells for $1. Earlier this year, a porn star reviewed it on the G4 network, an awkward detail Le Clair has shared with his mom. "Most people treat Rumble Massage like a joke, which it is," he said. "It's not a joke like it's stupid. It's a joke in that it's not serious."
Since Le Clair shook up the Xbox marketplace at the beginning of 2009, there have been five more massage programs. They've been made by developers in New York, Italy and France. They've been made by developers desperate to fund projects of which they can be more proud. They've even been made by at least one person with a real interest in massage.</blockquote>
News Source: <a href="http://kotaku.com/5381571/the-xbox-massage+makers-money-sex-toys--indie-backlash" target="_blank">Kotaku</a>
<blockquote>College senior Justin Le Clair may be the most commercially successful Xbox 360 developer of 2009. For four hours of work he's pocketed $60,000 and counting. His creation? An Xbox massage program, the first in a controversial trend.
"I threw it together in class," Le Clair told Kotaku during a phone interview this week. His creation, Rumble Massage, is no game. It's a program that makes an Xbox controller vibrate on command. It was launched in January through the Xbox Live Indie Games program, which enables amateur developers to sell peer-reviewed projects online through the Xbox 360.
Rumble Massage currently sells for $1. Earlier this year, a porn star reviewed it on the G4 network, an awkward detail Le Clair has shared with his mom. "Most people treat Rumble Massage like a joke, which it is," he said. "It's not a joke like it's stupid. It's a joke in that it's not serious."
Since Le Clair shook up the Xbox marketplace at the beginning of 2009, there have been five more massage programs. They've been made by developers in New York, Italy and France. They've been made by developers desperate to fund projects of which they can be more proud. They've even been made by at least one person with a real interest in massage.</blockquote>
News Source: <a href="http://kotaku.com/5381571/the-xbox-massage+makers-money-sex-toys--indie-backlash" target="_blank">Kotaku</a>