They (Dexterity) promise $1000 to $10,000 each month ??? Thats sounds too good to be true...I mean we are talking about small puzzlegames and games like that.

I haven''t actually published a game with dexterity but i''ve been talking to them about a game I''ve been working on. They were very helpful on giving me detailed information on their target market, as well as strategies to make the game sell better and increase registration rate.

If nothing else they seem to know the business side of things quite well. I also asked them if there were any upfront fees for developers signing contracts with them, their reply (quoted from email )

"No -- there are no up front fees for the developer. We would never ask you for money. If a publisher does that (such as having a sign-up fee), you should run as far the other way as possible. "

As for the $1000-10000 per month, i''m a little skeptical as well but they seem quite confident that if they agree to publish a game it will fall within this range. Personally if I did $500 a month through dexterity it would allready be exceeding what i would be able to accomplish on my own.

I would be happy if I got $200 each month (That''s a lot of Coca Cola...mmmmmm....).

The $1000-10000 per month.
If your read it well, this income is for several years en not
for each month.

"Reasonable expectations are for you to receive royalty checks from us each month in the range of US $1000 to $10,000. This income will normally last for several years. Every game sells differently, and we never know for certain how well each game will do because it depends on so many different factors."

>This income will normally last for several years.

Re-wording might be a good idea.

I don''t see that I should have misunderstood anything ?

$1.000 - $10.000 per month for several years...That''s alot of money for a simple puzzle game.

Let''s assume a royalty of $5000 per month and a lifespan of 3 years.

3 years = $5000 x 12 x 3 = $180.000 (and that''s just YOUR cut).

Pretty good for a 5-10mb puzzle game.

you need to have a very good puzzle game in that case
good luck

Hey dex7, you might wanna check out GarageGames (http://www.garagegames.com) if you''re looking for a publisher. I know that they are very serious about everything they do so they could be good alternative.

As always in this board when the subject is about money: wishful thinking. Hey,i am gonna quit my boring parttime programmer's job and write some pacman if i get 1000$/month for it.
Or i could try xinginteractive.com. They'll give you 25000$ or more for pacman. These are exactly the same figures that the unspeakable (or this message deletes itself in 5 secs) publisher stated before.

Edited by - lakibuk on February 12, 2002 11:44:46 AM