mike rose

  • Dev Reveals Exploitative Nature of Most Game Contracts

    Dev Reveals Exploitative Nature of Most Game Contracts

    Receiving a publishing deal from an indie publisher can be a turning point for an independent developer. But when one-man team Jakefriend was approached with an offer to invest half a million Canadian dollars into his hand-drawn action-adventure game Scrabdackle, he discovered the contract’s terms could see him signing himself into a lifetime of debt,…