From: sales AT gameboutique DOT com (sales) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer Subject: re: publishing a game Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:42:04 GMT Organization: GameBoutique Ltd. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5ciers$9aa@flex.uunet.pipex.com> Reply-To: sales AT gameboutique DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: www.gameboutique.com Keywords: publishing game To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp a number of people pointed out to me that our newsreader sucks and wasn't inserting /n's which made it impossible to read under netscape. hopefully i fixed the problem so i've reposted a shorter and clearer version of this for anyone interested. regards, nik. --- publishing a game - offer to developers for those interested in publishing games we offer one of two solutions. 1) a 50/50 deal, where you, the developer, make 50% of the earnings from the game, and we, the publisher, make the other 50%. we offer to undertake all the costs of marketing, production, advertising etc with no risk to yourselves. the deal is exactly the same as it would be with any other publisher, except instead of the publisher making 80% and you only making 20%, we're offering you 50%. i can't put it much simpler than that really :) 2) if you wish to market the game yourself on the internet via some shareware method perhaps, we have webspace and ftp space available for hire at competitive prices. please email us for more details. -- Graham Tootell GameBoutique Ltd. - THE online gaming experience nikki AT gameboutique DOT com http://www.gameboutique.com