daver@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (09/19/90)
My graduation project was a piece of educational software written with hypercard (1.2.5). The people that have seen it have recommended that I try to make some money off it. I did a little research and found that while there is a lot of hypercard educational stuff out there, there wasn't much like my little program. It needs to be scaled down for high school audiences, but it is a viable concept. As I'm sure everybody knows, hypercard programming is not rough. Nobody is going to go through my scripts and say "wow, what an unusual concept." What makes a hypercard stack good is the combination of pictures and buttons (and maybe then the script.) None of this is hard to duplicate. "A month of research and a week of programming" is what made this program. Has anybody out there tried to sell a hypercard program to a software publishing company? I have not because I know how easy it was to build. Why should they pay me to do it, when they probably have staff to do research and write programs? Granted, this is assuming that my program is good enough to steal. Does this sort of thing really happen? Am I being paranoid? If I'm not being paranoid, what have others done about it? Have you tried selling it on your own? Was it hard to do? Was it successful? ---------- David Ruby University of Illinois "This calls for a special blend of psychology and extreme violence" vyvyan