Indie game publishers are sharing their contracts for developers to inspect

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Indie game publishers are sharing their contracts for developers to inspectA gaze behind the curtain

A gaze behind the curtain

Indie publisher Raw Fury, who’ve published the likes ofBad NorthandCall Of The Sea, posted a copy of their publishing agreement yesterday. They’ve also compiled other resources for developerson their sitesuch as legal and financial paperwork samples that small or new studios may find useful.

To that end, they said they hope other publishers will follow suit and make their own agreements public too. Whitethorn Digital, who published the recently-releasedCalico, took them up on that andshared their agreementtoo.

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Regardless of how generous Raw Fury and Whitethorn’s agreements are or aren’t, having both visible to developers is inarguably a benefit to the industry. At the very least, the transparency will hopefully lead to updated terms from both of these publishers based on feedback and questions from developers. At best, this is a step towards more small teams finding the right publishing relationship to help release their games.