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Posted August 19, 2013
Indie Devs! Join the DRM-free revolution, reach more people, get an advance on royalties.

GOG.com, in our continued efforts to bring you all the best games in history for PC and Mac, is looking to make it easier for indie game devs to submit their game to GOG.com. To that end, we have launched a new portal on GOG.com today, containing the essential information on the way we work with our indie partners, and an easy entry form providing direct contact with our team. All this, and more, found under the URL:

www.gog.com/indie

For those of you who are fans of GOG.com the service, this doesn't mean much of a change, except that we hope we will have ever more exciting indie games to release while we continue our schedule of regular awesome classics as well. For those of you who are developing games, though, we hope to make this a painless process where you can be sure that you will hear honest feedback from us about your game and where we want it on GOG.com.

We are also disclosing our revenue share--a 70/30 share, as is industry standard--unless we offer you an advance on your royalties, in which case it's a 60/40 share until we have recouped the cost of your advance. There's been some speculation on the part of developers in the past as to what it is that we offer indie devs, and we wanted to make sure that was clear up front. We've invited some of our indie dev friends to talk briefly about the experience of putting their game on GOG,com, and here's what they had to say:

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If you're a fan of classic games, brace yourself for a thundering great RPG on Thursday. If you're a dev, fill out the form today, to join the DRM-free revolution, reach more people with your work, and possibly get an advance on royalties!
Post edited August 20, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted August 19, 2013
Let's recap. Gog.com is :

DRM free
Very low prices (More so with sales)
Comes with free extras (including, but not limited to, soundtracks)
Has retro, modern, and indie games
As some of the best customer service on the net
Recently started doing DLC
Has intuitive contests

And now there's a an indie game submission section..

Honestly whats next? a web browser player? Keep up the epic work GOG. Your the poster child for setting a new standard in game distribution. Rock on!
Posted August 19, 2013
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keeveek: snip
They will start classic-shower on Thursday - do I say we sit and wait
Posted August 19, 2013
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HunterZ: GOG.com needs to buy the GIG.com (get it? "Good Indie Games") domain and use it to form a sister site for selling indie games.

Selling indie games on an "old games" site is diluting the brand a bit.
Naah, because if you say G - I -G aloud, it sounds too much like GI Joe.
I don't want to buy games from GI Joe, I'm sure he supports DRM...
Posted August 19, 2013
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tburger: They will start classic-shower on Thursday - do I say we sit and wait
I hope this "shower" term doesn't mean after that classic releases will be dried up for another few weeks...
Posted August 19, 2013
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Shaolin_sKunk: I think he means that it's a much better deal to buy indies through Humble Store. Or of course he could mean that he comes here for the classics. Both are valid reasons not to be all that excited.
Depends really. If you're all about supporting the developer. Humble Store's cut is supposedly 95/5.

I guess it's nice to see GOG putting up a welcome banner for the Indie developers, although I don't see much here that probably wasn't already being done. I'm pretty sure they were open to Indie developers mailing them with submissions before, now there's simply a submission form for it.

The most interesting thing in this would seem to be the advance on royalties thing, which from the looks of it comes down to GOG giving money in advance to Indie developers wanting to release here? It almost sounds like a bribe xD

Edit: I swear, an error message when the quotes are messed up would be 100% more preferable to the current 'posting message' endlessly loading.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by Pheace
Posted August 19, 2013
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tburger: They will start classic-shower on Thursday - do I say we sit and wait
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keeveek: I hope this "shower" term doesn't mean after that classic releases will be dried up for another few weeks...
Hmmm... never thought of that point of view. Well.. we have confirmed Wasteland, 4 remaining Wing Commanders plus those 4 in TEnigmatic's poem. It'll be good.
Posted August 19, 2013
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tburger: They will start classic-shower on Thursday - do I say we sit and wait
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keeveek: I hope this "shower" term doesn't mean after that classic releases will be dried up for another few weeks...
But that's the whole idea of a shower. A bath of classics that would be something extended. A season of classics would be even longer. But a shower is over after some minutes (in the bathroom) or hours (outside). I am prepared for the worst. :)))
Posted August 19, 2013
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Trilarion: But that's the whole idea of a shower. A bath of classics that would be something extended. A season of classics would be even longer. But a shower is over after some minutes (in the bathroom) or hours (outside). I am prepared for the worst. :)))
God dammit...
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Posted August 19, 2013
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Trilarion: But that's the whole idea of a shower. A bath of classics that would be something extended. A season of classics would be even longer. But a shower is over after some minutes (in the bathroom) or hours (outside). I am prepared for the worst. :)))
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keeveek: God dammit...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa WA WA WA

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keeveek: snip
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tburger: They will start classic-shower on Thursday - do I say we sit and wait
By the way, is Thunderscape worth 5.99 on its own? I heard it has quite a few bugs.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by tfishell
Posted August 19, 2013
btw. I agree with few others - it makes no sense to make such thing in news section. If you want to support indie devs, you should make a link on front page, visible for them.

News page will disappear pretty soon. The same was with "we love devs" announced on some conference and then no button on front page either.
Posted August 19, 2013
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Zoidberg: Unfortunately for gog and indies, I find it way more interesting to NOT buy those games through gog.com. :/
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Romanul: Why is that?
Humble store releases:
- DRM Free versions
- Steam key
- Same price in dollars
- Usually windows/mac/linux

Well, it still stays a "vitrine" for indie devs though, but as a client I prefer Humble releases.
Posted August 19, 2013
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tfishell: By the way, is Thunderscape worth 5.99 on its own? I heard it has quite a few bugs.
Never played this. Looks nice but I don't think it would be instabuy for me.
Posted August 19, 2013
Great news. I wish GOG every success as, when it comes down to it, I've had many, many hours of fun playing GOG-DRM free games and they've always been value for money.
Posted August 19, 2013
Eh, maybe with an extended catalogue they get the luxury of hiring more people.

Plus, more games here means even less reason to bother with other places.
Posted August 19, 2013
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Schnuff: Now i hope that more games like Gianna are joining GOG (BASTION wink wink)
Bastion was already two times on a Humble Bundle. I am sure it will come again until Christmas 2014. :)
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