Session Name: | Financing Options for Smaller Games |
Speaker(s): | John Austin, Jonathan Blow, Marc Jackson, Nicholas Lovell, Jonathan Newth |
Company Name(s): | Joystick Labs, Number None, Inc., Seahorn Capital Group, Gamesbrief, Tenshi Ventures |
Track / Format: | Business and Marketing and Management |
Overview: |
Game development budgets for AAA console titles have been getting bigger year on year putting a real strain on the traditional publisher/developer commercial relationship. However over the last few years there has been an explosion of new formats and distribution mechanisms supporting viable sub $1 million developments; now geared up for massive budgets the "traditional" games publishers find financing and managing these new smaller games equally difficult for different reasons. |