Jeez you guys, my Mom is crazy. I want to buy Unity Indie with money from my savings. I tell her (since she has my ATM card) and she says that its a waste of money. I try to explain that I want to make some shareware games with it and she says that if I’m gonna have a business I need to write her a business plan. I write one, she denies it. I make it better, she says its worse. >_< This is getting annoying.
Aside from a business plan that PAYS for Unity (always a plus!) there are other benefits you’ve probably already mentioned:
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Very cheap way to LEARN some game programming.
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Very cheap and efficient way to build a portfolio.
Those have real long-term value for the future.
Then again, so does writing a business plan:p
Yeah. I seriously have written everything I can think of. Now I think I’ll just have to talk her into it. Wish me luck so that I can keep Unity-ing. If I make enough money from mah shareware games I’m definately upgrading to Pro.
Are you a coder or an artist? Or somewhere in-between?
@Moldorma
You mom somehow seems to be a cool person! :O)
:O! lol. I code and do graphics both pretty well (imo), but I can’t animate. >.> Anyhoo, I brought it up again and she said that if I show her something that I made with my trial she’d let me buy it.
Well, get going. 
You can make a complete game in a day if you keep it small.
I’ll help with questions as much as I can! Of course judging from your join date on the forum, your trial may be up. In that case maybe you can ask for an extension.
Cheers,
-Jon
And your marble game expansion wasn’t good enough for her?
@aarku
And those games mostly also look/play like done in a day. A complete game isn’t done in a day if you want something polished to support your arguments.
Nope, you’re wrong. And there’s no arguing with taumel, so I’m not gonna say why :O)
-Jon
Experience…aren’t you working on two games on your own? You should already know better by now.
If you simply look at what all has to be done to complete even a small game: Coming up with a nice idea which can already be a hard part for small games as it doesn’t help you to implement another Pong, right?! Doing the art (gfx and sfx), doing the texts. Implementing the structure around the game (Start, Highscores, Help, Options, Exit, Credits, …). Doing the game. Polishing&Tweaking all components. Simply won’t happen in most cases if you haven’t done it a dozen times before and know exactly what you’re after. Even more if you’re not familiar with the tool.
Jon’s already made games in less than a day, thanks to the 4 hour and 24 hour mini contests you have at iDevGames now and then.
So what? Maybe rereading helps?
Did I miss something here? I thought the context was Moldorma’s mom, not creating a polished-fun-and-ready-to-publish game…
I guess it’s easy to understand how we came to this if you read the thread.
I think Aras means that the target audience is Moldorma’s mum, and therefore needing proof of productivity wouldn’t need the same level of proof as to a game publiser for instance, needing a polished game etc.
Even if Aras didn’t mean that, he should have. 
Yep and i tell you statements like “…You can make a complete game in a day if you keep it small…” are sham for most of the people. You can hear stuff like this on a lot of gamedev forums but surprisingly i don’t see a lot of such games. But maybe we just have a different understanding of what a game actually means.
Im his brother. So. yea we diecided to make a quik game in Unity. We’ll even post it here when we are done.
Your 14 years old! You can do graphics and code.
Unity is not only for making games, you can tell her that it is also being used to showcase real estate properties etc. Show her Unity’s web site, let her browse this http://unity3d.com/unity/unity-visualization.html and this http://unity3d.com/unity/unity-education.html
Also, since you mentioned you can do graphics, can I see some of your work?
Since you are 14, you can not do anything legally with out parent approval, like going into a contract or something. So if you legally start a small business your mom will need to sign stuff for you.
Starting a business and expecting to make a profit in a year will not look good on any financier(especially parents) no matter how well written is your business plan. Instead of telling your mom that you will be using Unity to create games and selling the games as a shareware games, you can tell her that you will be using Unity as a tool to learn to code, etc.
Show me some of your graphics work, visit http://www.mantarayinteractive.netSee the ugly clown? I’m sure you can make a better clown than I can. If I like your work, I’ll buy it.(Through your mom of course.) Show her the Unity site mentioned above and this forum topic you started. Somebody wants to see your work and maybe pay you for your efforts, etc.?
Ray
Moldo on Donshoo’s Comp:
I’ll make you a clown for free.I just like doing 3d stuff. Here’s a 3D Caterkiller (from Sonic) that I made. just a pic.
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