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Posted August 19, 2013
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
Posted August 19, 2013
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Romanul: Why is that?
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Zoidberg: Humble store releases:
- DRM Free versions
- Steam key
- Same price in dollars
- Usually windows/mac/linux

Well, it still stays a "vitrine" for indie devs though, but as a client I prefer Humble releases.
humble can go drop dead.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by nijuu
Posted August 19, 2013
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Schnuff: Now i hope that more games like Gianna are joining GOG (BASTION wink wink)
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ZivilSword: Bastion was already two times on a Humble Bundle. I am sure it will come again until Christmas 2014. :)
It's in the Humble Store for the regular price: http://www.humblebundle.com/store/bastion
Posted August 19, 2013
I like buying games here for the DRM free aspect, though there can be other places to get that like amazon and humble. Either way more games is good, just don't forget the classics.
Posted August 19, 2013
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shmerl: It's in the Humble Store for the regular price: http://www.humblebundle.com/store/bastion
Oh I did not know. That’s fine, so no real reason for GOG not to offer it themselves.
Posted August 19, 2013
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ZivilSword: Bastion was already two times on a Humble Bundle. I am sure it will come again until Christmas 2014. :)
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shmerl: It's in the Humble Store for the regular price: http://www.humblebundle.com/store/bastion
Do you know why hasn't Bastion appeared on GOG yet?
Posted August 19, 2013
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Future_Suture: Do you know why hasn't Bastion appeared on GOG yet?
Because the installer is a shitty .msi-file?
Posted August 19, 2013
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Future_Suture: Do you know why hasn't Bastion appeared on GOG yet?
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Fesin: Because the installer is a shitty .msi-file?
Und was soll das bitte bedeuten? GOG makes its own installers regardless.
Posted August 19, 2013
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Future_Suture: Und was soll das bitte bedeuten? GOG makes its own installers regardless.
Why are you suddenly talking German with me?

Anyway:
1. I don't know about this stuff, but I figured that it may be a bit harder than usual converting a shitty .msi into an .exe. Maybe I'm wrong, dunno.

2. In actuality it was a not entirely serious answer to a question I assumed was rhetorical, because it gave me a chance to bitch about this, because it really annoyed me back than when I bought the game. Otherwise it's great, though.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by Fesin
Posted August 19, 2013
Fesin: What's the problem with the msi files? Those are regular Windows installers. GOG installers aren't much better in any way. I'm not using Windows though, so I have no idea about Bastion's msi installer in particular.

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Future_Suture: Do you know why hasn't Bastion appeared on GOG yet?
No idea, I didn't follow that project.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by shmerl
Posted August 19, 2013
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shmerl: Fesin: What's the problem with the msi files? Those are regular Windows installers. GOG installers aren't much better in any way. I'm not using Windows though, so I have no idea about Bastion's msi installer in particular.
Well, for one thing it just assumed I want to play the game in German, just because my OS is in German. The file would feature several languages, but it was impossible for me to choose another one in the installer.

All in all, I just prefer .exe, and I really don't know what the benefit of .msi is supposed to be.
Posted August 19, 2013
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Future_Suture: Und was soll das bitte bedeuten? GOG makes its own installers regardless.
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Fesin: Why are you suddenly talking German with me?

Anyway:
1. I don't know about this stuff, but I figured that it may be a bit harder than usual converting a shitty .msi into an .exe. Maybe I'm wrong, dunno.

2. In actuality it was a not entirely serious answer to a question I assumed was rhetorical, because it gave me a chance to bitch about this, because it really annoyed me back than when I bought the game. Otherwise it's great, though.
I thought an Austrian would understand German. Bin selber Österreicher. My apologies! I was gifted the game by a friend on Steam but would much rather wait till its release on GOG so that I can buy it here.
Posted August 19, 2013
Lack of language packs has nothing to do with msi installers. They could include those there if they had them. In practice there is no benefit in self extracting .exe installer over the .msi package.
Post edited August 19, 2013 by shmerl
Posted August 19, 2013
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Future_Suture: I thought an Austrian would understand German. Bin selber Österreicher. My apologies! I was gifted the game by a friend on Steam but would much rather wait till its release on GOG so that I can buy it here.
I do, and don't take it the wrong way, I'm not angry or anything, I was just a bit confused. It's always nice to see other Austrians here, but I still prefer talking English in international communities.

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shmerl: Lack of language packs has nothing to do with msi installers. They could include those there if they had them. In practice there is no benefit in self extracting .exe installer over the .msi package.
Well, I never said my hatred was rational. :p
Post edited August 19, 2013 by Fesin
Posted August 19, 2013
I want Gog trading cards! :o
Posted August 19, 2013
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Austrobogulator: I want Gog trading cards! :o
Or maybe pogs? :P
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