By: ARelativelyHotGirl
On: August 18th, 2007
Gamasutra has a Q&A with Jim Greer, one of Kongregate’s founders, on its plans to invest millions in independent flash games.
We’re funding developers as an advance against royalties on the microtransactions anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000, depending on the scope of the game. We’re looking at development cycles of 4 to 6 months with teams 2 to 3 people – some even less – in development, but we want to keep the initial experiments contained. And we’re guaranteeing the developer, “you’re going to pay all your expenses and make a little profit on these advances. But then if the game does well, you can keep 70% of the back end.â€
Could this be the XBLA of independent flash games?
Or is it just tears. In the rain.
DISCUSS.
(but only if you wanna)