News Publisher Raw Fury publicly reveals its publishing agreement

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It’s what we would have wanted if we were in a developer’s shoes.

A lot of the humans working at Raw Fury have at some point been a developer, working for some of the most recognized AAA game studios to fledgling indie outfits. Learning which sorts of deals were out there was tough, if not impossible, unless you knew the right people who could then share that information (broadly) with you. We believe having publisher contracts out in the open helps level the playing field, and allows devs to have a more intimate understanding of the machinations of different deals when they start looking for partnerships. We hope sharing this knowledge can help combat shady practices where predatory people and companies fleece devs by virtue of this knowledge being so scarce, trapping developers in bad deals through the obscurity of legal jargon. When you’ve been in the industry for a while you start hearing the horror stories, and while this is not going to end all of that – it is a step in the right direction.

By publishing our agreement, we also want to invite other publishers to do the same and increase the transparency within this part of our industry. Publishing contracts shouldn’t be treated as a business secret.


Dear gamer. We decided that we wanted to give back to the community, and take steps towards changing some stuff. Starting now, Raw Fury’s publishing agreement is available for any and all to read. Here is the blog post regarding why we decided to do this: http://rawfury.com/why-we-are-publishing-raw-furys-publishing-agreement/

Together with our publishing agreement, we’ve also templated a bunch of documents from legal, finance, marketing etc that we felt could be useful for developers. We hope they can be used/adapted to fit with your needs. Find them + the agreement here: http://rawfury.com/developer-resources/

To help us make the this as useful as possible, we will also be working to set up an FAQ. To do that we will need your help, so if you have questions you would like to see in the FAQ in regards to the agreement, please drop them via this asana form: https://tinyurl.com/FuryFAQ

We sincerely hope that more publishers will join us in sharing their agreements. Publishers need to shift away from obfuscation and towards transparency, and continue to work towards a fairer and more inclusive industry as a whole. Access to agreements should be easy for devs.

The only ones who benefit from agreements not being out in the open are predatory publishers who trick devs into shit ones due to there being few to no agreements available for reference. This is also why we decided to translate our agreement into 7 languages.

Devs access to this knowledge shouldn't be gatekept by having access to informal networks or spaces where this can be shared "unofficially" between devs. You should be able to go to a publishers website and look it up, just how you look up a portfolio or whatever else.

So step up, folks! Let's make this industry a little bit better. Get those agreements out front and center. It's the season, so go do some good.

With dear regards, @jtoresson and the rest of the Raw Fury crew. Happy #RawCember2020

 

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