dx elliot

I am thinking of making one of those "find difference" games that compares two images for five differences to find, but I am having trouble finding decent stock photography to modify. I really like the ones on sites like shutterstock.com and iStockphoto.com, but am I reading the licensing terms correctly? There is a standard and extended license, but based on the restrictions, I would need an extended license because the Flash and free mobile app versions of my game could easily get more than 500k hits, so it would cost over a hundred dollars per photo?! Is that right?

I am willing to pay for royalty free photos, but I need over a hundred and spending more than $10,000 at this time is out of the question. Stock.xchng has a sketchy license agreement for the kind of game I am making. Any ideas?

Defend Your Nuts is a free-to-play Flash game sponsored by Armor Games. The project took six weeks of development and then one week of part-time bug-fixing and polish. I used a lot of audio from freesound.org and the royalty free music was purchased from pond5.com and soundloopstudio.com. I did all the programming and art. It is a simple game designed to appeal to the large casual gaming audience. There are four weapons, half a dozen enemies, a boss fight, and three difficulty settings, so a play-through can take less than 25 minutes.

My blog the progress of how the game was developed, as well progress on my current projects.

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