Following up on yesterday’s announcement about writer and game designer Greg Costikyan forming the independent publishing company, Manifest Games, CEO Greg Costikyan and Johnny Wilson are interviewed by Gamecloud and Next Generation.

When asked about the financial model, Costikyan states, “Broadly, we will pass on a high proportion of sale revenue to developers, price figure to be negotiated, of course, but in general, a high proportion. There will be an additional clause that allows Manifesto to keep a slightly higher proportion if we can document that we’ve paid that much specifically on promoting the game, that is, with invoices to show it.”

Later, Costikyan talks about their involvement with developers. “Initially, we will not be funding game development so we won’t be looking for exclusive distribution arrangements.”

Take a royalty, deduct advertising costs, and don’t fund the development. Sounds like winner to me.

You can read the Next Generation interview here, and the Gamecloud interview here.

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