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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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Theseekingseer: Why is that most western visual novel developers like to sell their games on Steam or other sites rather than here?
isn't it easier to present your games here on GOG like most indies devs that already had?
GOG claimed in a recent interview to have had over a thousand indie games submitted for its Indie Program (the one this thread was made for). Out of those, few made the cut to be released here, though the reasons for passing or not are only known to GOG and the developers.
Steam on the other hand has released so far in 2014 more games than it has released in the whole of 2013, and that means that the entry point is lower. So while getting on GOG is a bit harder, it does (usually) also signify that the game is of a higher quality.

Again, no idea about Dysfunctional Systems, and the quality part is quite subjective.

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Theseekingseer: Well at least Divinity Original Sin and Pillars Of Eternity and the new Torment will be here right?
As far as we know, yes to all 3.
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Theseekingseer: Why is that most western visual novel developers like to sell their games on Steam or other sites rather than here?
isn't it easier to present your games here on GOG like most indies devs that already had?
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JMich: GOG claimed in a recent interview to have had over a thousand indie games submitted for its Indie Program (the one this thread was made for). Out of those, few made the cut to be released here, though the reasons for passing or not are only known to GOG and the developers.
Steam on the other hand has released so far in 2014 more games than it has released in the whole of 2013, and that means that the entry point is lower. So while getting on GOG is a bit harder, it does (usually) also signify that the game is of a higher quality.

Again, no idea about Dysfunctional Systems, and the quality part is quite subjective.

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Theseekingseer: Well at least Divinity Original Sin and Pillars Of Eternity and the new Torment will be here right?
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JMich: As far as we know, yes to all 3.
Ohh... I didn't realize GOG was picky when it comes in choosing which games to sell here than steam's greenlight or whatsoever... but I do agree with you because of this strict practice, most of the games they sell here are of exceptional quality!!! Just like Blackguards and Dust which are both awesome games and most of all they're DRM-Free!!! There's no other place I go buying games aside from GOG.com :)

Can't really blame them I guess... GOG really has a good taste when comes to games and all of that!