mrrumfoord

Still negotiating the terms of our first publishing deal with a great group of developers who left a major publisher. They have a City-building RTS (for PC) that is already half finished, playable, quite fun - very addictive for a somewhat playable demo.

Very close to closing the deal, going through all the legal minutia right now actually. This is the first time I've felt compelled to dive into all this crazy legaleuse. I swear that these lawyers have invented this legal dialect just to fuck with everyone and to ultimately spur litigation down the road.

For example: "If publisher elects to 'whatever' then developer will be deemed to have granted "so and so whatever whatever' as opposed to simply using the verb 'grants' which would essentially communicate the same thing in the language we're all more comfortble using, being Enlgish.

Anyway, so yeah, the first game will be published for the PC, but we're already looking around for other independently minded developers who hate the inculcated publishing system in which they always get screwed, some of whom are develping for the major consoles.

All very exciting, except for the demos that suck, which are many.