Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:52:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike A. Harris" Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" To: Benjamin D Chambers cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Publishing a game In-Reply-To: <19970120.191505.4983.4.chambersb@juno.com> Message-ID: Organization: Your mom. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:11:13 -0800 Tudor writes: > >the publisher gets 90% and 100% of the work is myne!! > I agree whole-heartedly. Doing your own distribution and advertizing would cost a lot though. For a first game, you're either stuck by using an existing publisher and not making much money, or investing a LOT of money in a possibly risky venture. > How do companies like lets say Origin stand this ?? > Origin started out as a one-man company that made it's own games, selling > Basic programs on a 5 1/4 inch floppies in Ziploc bags. > > Who says the lone programmer can't survive? 10 years ago maybe. Unfortunately nowadays they are few and far between. > While we're on the subject of game publishing,... > What would the interest level be in creating a Game's archive of games > created with DJGPP? It would be distributed in bulk on CD, with each > programmer contributing a portion of the costs. If we get enough people > in on it (Let's say each game is 5-25 megs, that's 25-100 games per CD > easy) the costs wouldn't be quite so scary. > Any thoughts??? A noble thought, however it wouldn't work IMHO. Simply because some games would be more popular/better than others. Therefore how would the royalty payments be divided? If they were evenly divided, then the person/group who wrote the most popular game would want more money, or else they would be disappointed. Also, who would choose what games went on the CD? No, I don't think that this would work as a commercial venture. However, as a shareware CD, the whole ballgame changes, as people would have to register the games that they liked. I do like the idea of a CD of stuff written in DJGPP (hopefully with source code) but I don't think it will happen. Mike A. Harris - Computer Consultant http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris My dynamic address: http://www3.sympatico.ca/mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT sympatico DOT ca mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca DJGPP: Current version 2.01