Crystal SDK (http://www.crystalsdk.com/index.htm) is Chillingo’s alternative to OpenFeint with a slightly different focus.
Apart from giving people more choices, this would enable us to
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“Enter into publishing deals with Chillingo (Crystal SDK integration is a requirement)”
That’s interesting (and pretty obvious when you think about it). I wonder what they bring to the table nowadays. Rovio (Angry Birds creators) have said that today you don’t need a publisher and that they wouldn’t work with Chillingo again. You have to wonder how much their cut is of those 7 million paid downloads.
Since you seem interested in publishing deals, do you know how they usually work? I guess I’m curious about what the terms usually look like. [import]uid: 10835 topic_id: 3594 reply_id: 10893[/import]
Good point.
My big thing is “I don’t know - so let’s try”.
Not much harm to be done by seeing how well they actually work.
As for their type of deals and support, here is an excerpt from a mail they sent me after I inquired.
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Chillingo is the leading iPhone and iPad publisher - we produce, launch, steer and polish games to
ensure a perfect match for the iOS market. We would look at Ardent and give you our honest
feedback. We take charge of the Apple relationships, talking with Press, creating a tsunami of buzz
around the game pre-launch and post launch. Add in our 20m+ players in the Crystal network and you
have a volatile mix. On top of that we can bring a ton of value-add now that we have the backing
of EA (marketing power, porting etc).
In terms of commercials the only thing we ask is we need Crystal included. Every proposal is
different depending on the quality of the game but we operate on a revenue share basis.
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