fortebass.bsky.social
1, 2, impostor my shoe.
3, 4, innersloth at the door
5, 6, programmer with sticks
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Will you sign my copy?
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Actually I do also really like that only 15% of agreements are perpetual. Could be better, but I thought it'd be worse. That auto-renewal is bullshit tho. haha wtf are pubs doing for you after 6 years.
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Depending on the terms, I might still expect that deal to be in the data sheet. Disney *could* be considered a publisher, but it's atypical and imo plays by its own rules.
Moreso if idk an indie pub funds a licensed IP as work for hire, etc etc idk.
Otherwise, be wary. I mean, always be wary, but
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The only defense for publishers than I can draw from this is that the datasheet doesn't mention licensing deals, equity deals or other large, but less common deals.
If Disney pays you $6M to make a Star Wars game, you can BET that they're gonna keep the game IP and NOT pay huge rev share.
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This sorts faiiiirly well with their results. The folks have been signing much smaller games. There's still some teams coming through with larger asks and past experience to back that budget, but I'd say average team of 7 (approx 5-10) working for about a year. Median throws me for a loop a bit.
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Before looking any closer, I assume it takes $1M dollars to fund 10 US-based people for 12 months. If I see anything significantly outside that, like 20 people asking for 100k or 1 person asking for $1M, then (very personal imo) alarms raise.
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But both of those examples are silly. I imagine whoever got a 90% rev share deal either needed very little money or was very friendly with the pub. (offsetting the risk of delivery, quality, etc) An outlier amongst outliers.
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The advance sizes information not that interesting, imo. You should get enough money to fund your development, regardless of trends. Outliers could have different terms, but "outlier" depends on relative risk. 20k to a VC, they should just hand you that money. $2M to a tiny pub is huge.
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Because the data kinda tucks away and doesn't elaborate on this: The average contract is still 100% during recoup! And the 48.4% that aren't, the data doesn't specify how much. Could be 10%, could be $10. Make sure you're fighting for something to survive on!
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Be careful when judging these numbers as "good" or "bad"! Just because you're getting a median or average deal, doesn't mean that's good! IMO, I see a median 50% rev share on advance as bad! I wish it were 30%, Especially with a median advance of 300k! (More on this next post)
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nobody finds out until they hit 30 CCU
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Mhmm, and if the draw is the world, no one is really gonna care if some positions desync or something. As long as numbers change and nothing breaks horribly. So you can easily get away with P2P, low send rate. Steam and Epic libs make it reaaaal easy.
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Depending on the gameplay (ie coop, low-action), I feel like there's a lot of leeway for simpler networking models that produce janky multiplayer but also don't rend your being in twain to make.
Just sayin' that I could do with a Diablo Jr or some such. idk
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I think about this a lot actually. We were robbed.
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Is this marketing? 🤔🤔🤔
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Np, anytime
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That one photo from 2017 really pulling its weight.
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Shit. Signing, of course. This is why I don't tweet
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Kril yes, Nick is CEO too, probably
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Oh, I almost missed this one! Uhhhhhh, I'm not good at remembering this stuff, but New Fuji in Vancouver was kinda insane.
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I could go for citizen sleeper 2 tbh
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Haha yeah, I'ma take better photos later, the slight out of focus, blown out photo of a photo doesn't do it justice at all. She totally killed it.
Anime leg! Anime leg! Anime leg!
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Oh next year? Idk what's even coming out? Aren't we busy surviving or something?
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If I was a ghost, I probably wouldn't haunt so much as hang around. Haunting feels like hate following someone. Not my jam. But maybe I'd hang around someone like Sakurai. Maybe I'd get good at smash finally.
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Probs Daisy. She's sporty femme waluigi if you think about it.
Magic eight ball says yes, maybe.
No offense to balatro (most likely truth) but I'd hope for Arco or 1000x (equally next likely)
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Haha, I'll post when it's done
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Beeg chimkin
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Like if you think about "oversaturated genres" it's that broadly people aren't seeing major differences between the games or they don't care about those differences. Once you amplify differences that people care about, I feel like you can make an argument for not being in the genre. A mix at least.
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Haha still thinking about the oversaturated genre question. And it's basically just like... Don't* Maybe I'll just get cancelled instead.
*Or do, but focus on any and all under-saturated aspects.
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Have you tried tiramisu? Could work
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Find chips. Either kind
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I'm so bad at favorites. Could go with a pangolin right now, but tbh cats are probably more reliable.
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Indie game is an interesting modifier to fav genre! Indie narratives (vis nov or adventure) hit in a way that bigger ones don't. Least fav is harder. I just don't like some regardless who's making them. Tbh retrocore metroidvanias is probably bottom.
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Fav shape kiki, fav color bouba
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Uuhhhgg not soon enough
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Where's that newfangled joking star image
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Lol building a team is so easy. Just be really good at picking good people from a crowd using insufficient and/or vague information. Once you're tired of that, all those good people will obvs be equally good at doing the same thing, so it just self-perpetuates.
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Threading the needle between spicy and off-the-cuff-mean is hard tho. Gimme a topic at least
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Later, she's still cooking
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Variable names always matter, but if you don't name your random Randy, you're missing out.