My project for this summer is to explore the feasibility of running a game development studio.    

I’m very much coming at the thing from an organization management perspective, and so learning the exact difference between the studio, a developer, and a publisher, has been a fascinating experience.    

One of the activities that ends up blurring that sort of line is purchasing game assets, rights and rights to revenue.   And I was wondering, first of all how the itch.io platform works, and if this is just in one of these little menu bars that I haven’t seen, or if there’s some sort of reputable third-party market that’s well known. That sort of thing. 

But also more generally about, just the practice itself. Is it normal and ethical to buy somebody else’s old project, and either market it as is, or continue development on it for the same purpose?  Seems to me a sensible way of building up a catalog for a studio that is just starting out. Don’t reinvent the wheel and all of that.  

I appreciate your input, and I hope this is in line with the rules and everything.   Thank you.

P.S. We are Fielding a three man team for the “skill up” game jam starting day after tomorrow.  You should definitely give them a look. And vote for whatever it is that we make. Xd

https://itch.io/jam/skillup-summer-time

Edit: mm, yes. Game assets. Okay. That answers the meat of my question

I run a gaming media Youtube Channel and website. The Youtube channel is called "The OFC Media",  there will be a link to it at the bottom of this post. I created my Youtube Channel with the purpose o helping the Indie Gaming Community (Both Developers and Players), my intention is to help developers profit from their hard work and provide enough information for players to make an informed purchase and not feel like they wasted their money.  My channel is currently growing steadily and I have intentionally attracted a level-headed and open-minded audience. Please keep in mind that creating quality content takes time and effort.

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Some of us have experimented with a "suspended coffee" style community copy program on itch to support those with financial limitations, leveraging itch's reward system. A lot of how to do it has sort of grown out of discussions on Discord and Twitter, and information on how to do it has been requested enough that I thought I'd make a blog post about it, and share here.

Questions and feedback welcome! <3

http://berdan.ca/andy/community-accessibility-on-itchio

As I said on Mastodon, the only silver linings to this news are:

1. It might not be so easy for Hasbro to sue everyone else into compliance as they seem to think, for a lot of little legal reasons.
2. It will give people an incentive to let D&D go the way of Harry Potter, and deservedly so.

But in the mean time, it's a mess, and will impact a lot of creators, including right here. That's why we can't have nice things.

Are you planning to publish your game in various languages to attract players from all around the world? 

It is probably yes if you are reading this topic. So let me introduce myself. I'm a professional localization specialist and my language pairs are English and Turkish. I have been working on game localization projects for almost 5 years. Now, I wanted to establish a team of freelance localization specialists and help developers and publishers get high-quality localization services by contacting only one person. 

It is my pleasure to inform you that we can render top-notch localization services for your games.  We can translate/proofread your games from English into several languages as:

• French
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• Thai
• Indian
• Polish
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• Portuguese
• Vietnamese

What are your advantages?

1. Our localization specialist teammates are generally natives of the languages they translate into.

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We will be happy to cooperate with you! Please, do not hesitate to contact us through here, my mail "hakan.namli@outlook.com" and my WeChat "hakan_namli".

Is it overwhelming to decide on which languages you need first? You can check this link for related data from a third-party: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/7azx12/2_years_of_gremlins_inc_languag...

We produce a podcast called, Game Jawns. You can check it out at gamejawnspodcast.com, so you know we're being serious. The short version of who we are is... "Game Jawns is a Lantern Light Studios produced podcast that's about all things games! We're a group of moonlighting game developers who have passion for making and playing games. Join us for our conversations as we bridge the gaps between game developers and players as we dive deep into what we love, games!" We have amassed a nice following in a short time and we're now looking to developers  who want to get the word out there on their games and projects. Whether you're looking for pre-roll, post-roll, episode sponsorship, special segments about your works, a guest spot on the show, we can work with you! Email Game Jawns at lanternlightstudios@gmail.com. I'll put links to other places you can find us below. We really look forward to working with so many of the great developers on here!

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Here's our table of contents:

1. Naming Your Game
2. Picking Your Game's URL
3. Classification
4. Impact of Mac, Linux and Android Builds
5. Cover Art
6. Should my Game be Tagged as NSFW?
7. Tags
8. Related Games
   1. The Nerus and Killigan's Treasure Cases
9. Reading the Data About Your Game
10. Impressions
11. CTR
    1. The Tennis Ace Case
    2. The Minotaur Hotel and Nerus Cases
12. Ratings
13. Followers 
14. DevLogs

Instead of keeping all of this to ourselves we chose to make it public so others can benefit. The report is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons License, anyone can build on top of it.

I hope you find our research useful, and I wish you success in your game's development.

After seeing discussion about setting prices for our games to bring up the value of all indie games (thanks RPG Design Friends), I priced my two previously PWYW games to a minimum of $2. I also have a way for folks to email me for a free copy, and the screenshots on the pages of both games have them in their entirety. I thought about making the text versions free and the pdfs priced, removing some of the screenshots, etc. but this is what I settled with.

Does this sound sensible? I want to both value my labor (and the value of other indie creations) and make my art accessible to everyone. How do other folks accomplish this?

This sucks, but luckily they're grandfathering in everyone with a Patreon account at the old rate. These changes aren't happening just yet, so I highly recommend making a Patreon right now if you're at all interested in using the service for your games, writing or whatever, even if you have nothing to post yet. Your account should maintain its Founder status and you'll get the better rate when you do start producing content.

https://twitter.com/Calliethulhu/status/1108053166518616064

at any rate, prior to march 4th basically all you had to do to own your IP is make the damn thing. that's still true, however, courtesy of Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com you now must have registered your copyright with the libary of congress before you can commence a lawsuit against some n'er do well. not only must you have registered your copyright, the LOC must have processed the application. this is a game changer, because it contradicts the literature of the copyright act as well as prior SCOTUS rulings. it also means that there will be heavy pressure on the registrar as it takes some 8 to 10 months to process an application already; it'll go up.  Jordan Franklin has a pretty good opinion piece you can read here, and she IS a lawyer. her point about is statute of limitations is on point, which i think is extremely relevant to the sort of re-discover-ability that RPGs tend to have.

so that's something to watch out for! again, i am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but i keep up with IP law pretty hard because i do art/game stuffs for other people a lot and sometimes you gotta know some legal stuff. if anyone has any questions i can try to answer as best and non-legally binding as i can, or point you to a better resource.