I worked on some casual puzzle-crossword game last year and due to some complications with graphic designer I did not finish this game. The source code lays in the dark corner of my hard disk for many months until I spoke with Gee about it. From that time I have dilemma what I can do with this game.

Last year I wanted to have epic (casual) game full of elves and pots of gold, nice Irish music and beautiful hand drawing graphics. First months everything was going well, then started problems with my graphics designer that went to fail of the project. I lost attraction, but most of code is written, also some levels and others stuff.

These days I spend a lot of time thinking of what I can do with this unfinished project. I can continue at the point I left this game and finish it into A grade casual game and sell it at the portals. This sounds good, but it requires a lot of time and effort that I probably do not want to spend at this project with such a uncertain outcome (my game developer myself cry, but it is not so fun to find another graphic designer, than another, because first left than start again).

I can also finish this game as a B grade casual games and go indie way. Just finish the code, throw all the elves and nice story away; add some generic graphic created by myself (graphics is not crucial in this kind of games) and try to sell it via download sites. This looks nice for me, because it is everything just about me and I do not need to spend a lot of effort at the business site (like dealing with publishers and so). Game could be also much cheaper: if it will costs $5.99 I will get more money than if I release $19.99 game with some publisher (yeah, they take more then 70% of game sale).

Or I can just leave it at the dark place of my hard drive. What do you think, what is the right way? Try to make it big, spent a lot of time and money to get the chance and have about 5 percent to make nice income or try to publish it and just see what happen later. If you are a developer what are you doing with your abandoned projects?