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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
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Unfortunately for gog and indies, I find it way more interesting to NOT buy those games through gog.com. :/
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Zoidberg: Unfortunately for gog and indies, I find it way more interesting to NOT buy those games through gog.com. :/
I don't understand how not buying something is interesting.

Maybe if you passed on a death ray or something....

Also, we beat you to it, GOG.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_launch_new_portal_for_indie_devs

12 hours ago

Oh wait, no we didn't. I just saw that one first. Yet it has more posts. Odd.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by Shaolin_sKunk
Further proof GOG no longer cares about classic games. </sarcasm>

I think this is great, but please consider adding more variable price points so a wider range of games have a chance to make it here.
I think, this is a great thing to do,...now all I have to do, is to learn how to code and sell my game over GoG.com and get filthy rich, muhahaha... ;)
As long as there are at least one or two non-indie releases every week I'm perfectly fine with everything else. (Not so interested in indies.)
How about hiring me to translate their games to Spanish? :P
That's a great surprise! Please go on, making this platform great (well, greater of course, I mean). You got my full trust in how you expand the site. I espeacally hope for more RPGs and that more non-Indie-developers jump in too.
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Foxhack: How about hiring me to translate their games to Spanish? :P
I can help with developers who want their games translated from English to American. Mostly involves replacing scientific terms with religious references and swapping out dialogue with profanity.
This is great news indeed. I'm happy to see more effort into lesser known games getting a chance to shine.

It can be hard to acquire a lot of older games due to IP right issues. When games get the shaft and don't come here due to rights, or because "good old games" actually have some form of DRM, indie games are the next alternative where a good portion do not have DRM (some do).

A new game today, is a good old game tomorrow. Any indie game released, which sits well with gamers and creates fond memories, will only create fan bases and increase the sites customer base, as well as revenue.
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Foxhack: How about hiring me to translate their games to Spanish? :P
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IAmSinistar: I can help with developers who want their games translated from English to American. Mostly involves replacing scientific terms with religious references and swapping out dialogue with profanity.
I'm not going back there. Not again.
I'm with Zoidberg on this one, but if this also means less classics younger than 2005 I'm all for it! (not sure how that correlates but I'm hopeful).
I'd also prefer a thundering great adventure, but RPG will (again) have to do I guess. [/whine]

Good luck indies!
I don't see this question :

" Is your game comes with a serial key ? "
Wow, awesome news and hopefully it will mean we get even more cool indie games on GOG.

I only buy indie games at two places -- GOG and Indie Game Stand, so really welcome more games being released here.

Thanks GOG!!

And to all those indie developers -- START SUBMITTING YOUR GAMES :)
This is excellent news. I just hope GOG won't back down on quality control, despite what some people (ahem) have been campaigning for.