Good Old Games Introduces Its New Submission Platform For Indie Developers!
This is definitely some breaking news material as Good Old Games, has just announced that it will be accepting submissions from various indie game developers who want to get their games out. This comes in light of GOG’s desire to have more fresh and unique indie game titles in their ever growing catalogue. According to GOG,
The Internet’s leading DRM-Free digital distributor wants more indie games! To make the submission process as easy as possible they have launched a new portal for indie devs: www.gog.com/indie. This new portal gives game developers a tool they can use to submit their game and speak to GOG.com about the release. The webpage provides information on how it is exactly to be partners “the GOG.com way”, allowing for an industry norm-defying advance on royalties, direct feedback on the game from the gamers on staff, and continuous effort to showcase all new releases on the website and throughout its social media platforms.
You don’t have to take GOG.com’s word for it: the webpage lets a variety of devs who have already partnered up with GOG.com, speak up instead. Kan Gao (creator of To The Moon) Calvin French (The Real Texas), Lars Doucet (Defender’s Quest), Anne and Ville Mönkönnen (Driftmoon), all talk about their experiences releasing games on GOG.com.
GOG.com will have the indie program in full swing next week at GDC Europe (in Cologne from 19-21 August) where they will be happy to meet devs and press at their GDC booth located at table 147.
In my opinion, this is a major piece of news for indie developers and might influence how gaming takes shape with more interesting indie titles in the limelight. Because, as of now, there are several interesting games a lot of people really don’t know about. For example, the game we had talked about on the website before, Sector 7-4-9er, which will soon be making its way to PC, is a unique little game and even though it is well made, it is relatively unknown by the gaming masses. So I sincerely hope this will help many different developers reach their dreams and expectations through this program.
GOG is not the only one with this kind of program as Steam had also introduced a Greenlight feature that allows developers to upload their games, and through votes, let the customers decide if they want it to appear on Steam. Furthermore, not only can the indie developers use this, but also more successful ones, like recently what Star Rising Games did with their horror hit, Deadly Premonition.
Suffice to say, it will be interesting to see how popular this program goes. Who knows, it just might be as big as Greenlight and end up helping countless developers, especially seeing how GOG is the #1 DRM-FREE retailer.