Softpedia taking the LD20 games?
Posted by natpat
June 7th, 2011 2:54 pm
I’m not sure if they’re allowed to do this, or if this happens every LD, but I got an email today from a website called Softpedia, telling me that:
Alone, one of your products, has been added to Softpedia's database of
games and gaming tools.
I was quite surprised, and checked the website, to see my game there, along with “Roger the beer dwarf”, the next game in the list of games from LD20 was also there.
http://games.softpedia.com/get/Freeware-Games/
If this is a regular occurrence, then could someone tell me how long it usually takes for them to take the games down after you’ve requested it?
Almost makes you feel violated doesn’t it? Though it may be a compelling argument for monetizing your compo entries…
This is standard practice and has happened to most past LD compos. In fact, after a while you’ll find your game on all sorts of download sites. The good news is that they do honour takedown requests. Ask yourself, however, is anything wrong with getting your game out there? Wasn’t that the point?
I don’t see why be bothered, they’re not stealing or anything like that. Call it free publicity, your game might reach some players that it normally wouldn’t.
Because it’s currently in the process of being bid on by sponsors, and I don’t particularly want to ruin my chances by having it out there before hand
But I do see where you’re coming from
and yeah, they’ve taken it down now.
Since the issue is resolved, may I divert the conversation?
Is there any site where I can get info on sponsership?
How much money is involved?
Who sponsers LD games?
How do you contact these sponsors?
Thanks
http://www.flashgamelicense.com/ is a good place to get started. Its FAQ is relatively in depth and can answer quite a lot of questions you may have.
Money involved depends a lot on the quality of the game, can range anyway from about $100 to anywhere way above that (into the thousands) for well polished games.
Mainly web portals, like Armor Games, Kongregate, Newgrounds etc. sponsor games.
As for contacting the sponsors, Flash Game License can take care of that for you, you upload your game to them, and sponsors can bid on them on the website, or you can take the more traditional approach of emailing sponsors directly.