Chapter 2 Self-Publishing
The games industry has changed so much over recent years. The shift from publisher-funded publishing to developer self-publishing has seen so many exciting and wonderful opportunities open up for developers. Who would have thought a few years ago that this would ever happen? At the time developers were firmly in the control of publishers and the platform holders, getting a game to market could often be a very difficult process. I’ll illustrate this with an example of how it used to be …
In 2005, my studio signed a deal with a small US publisher to publish two of our games in North America on PS2 and PSP. The deal ...
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