If you're in this jam, it means you've not worked with the CoOp before, so you perhaps don't know how we roll.

Firstly, if you win our judged competition, we'll offer you the choice to come on board and work with us to get your thing published. We'll take your words, get them edited and proofread, and then get layout designers and illustrators to make it pretty. We'll publish it through platform pages, linked to yours on itchio too.

Everybody who touches the game gets shares according to their input. We've got a standard agreement we work with for this. The proportion of those shares of the total is how much that person receives as a proportion of the profit. Of platforms that don't pay out automatically, we split profits across our projects every quarter.

If it's possible (I.e. if it's not a strange format that we can't print efficiently, or if for some reason we lack the funds immediately), we'll work with our print partners to get a modest number printed and into distribution in the US. Everybody on the staff roll for the project gets a copy too. Again, we split profits on this according to what people put in.

To publish something, we'd want a product that we think can be published or expanded into a zine-scale product. We usually define this as 2000-5000 words; a bit above or below is fine, though. We might consider bigger products, but the undertaking is bigger.

Secondly, you can refuse our offer if you like, either by opting out of the judging at submission, or just by telling us you don't want to take us up. We won't be offended. We'll offer the second place entrant the same deal instead.