Publisher payments (was Re: [GD-General] Prices of well-known 3D engines)

[Frank D. <fra...@ho...>]

Hi all,

(Sorry if this comes through twice)

>Obviously publishers won't gave the same ammount of money to develop a game 
>in spain as int USA... at least i don't think you can fool them that way :)
>So perhaps we will get a 1/15 fraction of the ammount of money you (USA) 
>can get from a publisher...
>I don't know it for sure, as i don't work on games directly

I'm not sure if this off topic, but i would guess it isnt so here goes..

Is there anyone that can give any information about how much a game should 
earn a small developer team? I understand not too many of you are willing to 
share details of your financial situation, so dont use game names if you 
dont want to.

Lets say you have a team of 5 people working fulltime on a game for a couple 
of months. What would be a reasonable payment? I suppose you would receive a 
sum on signing of the contract, a sum on delivering a master, and royalties 
for each sold product? Does anyone have numbers?

Regards,
Frank

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