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Article #1541Re: Royalties/Profits
From: David J Madura
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:20
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:20
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> >It's his idea, but I expressed it. The copyright is mine, I hold all >rights. If he wanted ~30% alone for the idea, what does he think >is gonna happen during our "large game" where there concept was >totally mine, and he had little input on development, and money >making potential is much greater. > Well I dont know the specifics of your situation but here's my advice. I've written a couple commercial games as have friends of mine. Writing scripts for Lynx games brought up to $1500 that's it. That's the basic game design and concept.. Atari gave you an idea/title that they want done and you wrote up what type of game should be made, etc.. (Home Alone, Bill & Ted, etc..) I have never given an artist more than 25%... unless he is outstanding and does a disproportionate amount of work maybe up to 40%. If the game concept is yours, the copyright is yours, most of the ideas are yours then if he insists on 50% then find someone else to do artwork.. There is no way he is going to get 50% from anybody. I've paid artists on per picture basis and given them small points but it's never gotten past 25%.. of course none of them have ever had any input on game design or concepts.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!pitt.edu!djmst19 From: djmst19+@pitt.edu (David J Madura) Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: Royalties/Profits Message-ID: <1125@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 23 Dec 92 20:20:20 GMT References: <1992Dec23.001307.6257@rose.com> Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 20