Search the archive:
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
Payware Developers (Read 153 times)
Jul 11th, 2005 at 8:52pm

matthew954   Offline
Colonel
Gamers make the best Game
designers

Gender: male
Posts: 176
*****
 
Ok, This might be an unusual request, but I was wondering if anyone knew if any of the aircraft developers were at all hireing?  I've been trying to start a career in the game industry and figured one of the plane designers would be a good start.  If anyone can help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - Jul 11th, 2005 at 10:08pm

Felix/FFDS   Offline
Admin
FINALLY an official Granddad!
Orlando, FL

Gender: male
Posts: 1000000627
*****
 
Most of the payware publishers do nöt "HIRE", per se.  Rather, they act more like project managers and distributors.

Some groups, however, are more like cooperative/partnerships, in which the associates pool their resources and sell through their own website.

Unless you go to one of the "major"  gaming companies - EA, etc., to develop commercial games (different from flightsim add ons), you're better off developing a model and offering it to one of the publishers.

MAJOR CAVEAT:  You may be an excellent modeller, but your flight dynamics, for example, come from Joe Blow's Freeware XL-2300 model.  Major mistake, since if Joe wasn't consulted, Joe can raise a big stink and the publisher will boot your project *and you may be liable for the publisher's losses!!*

What can you model?  Make a model of something commercially desirable.  Get it visually appealing, nicely textured, etc.  To *offer* the model to a payware publisher, you may use flight dynamics from one of their products, but specify it, and say that they (the publisher) can tweak the flight dynamics.  If the publisher decides to run with your model, you'll get a royalty - percentage of the net profits - rather than a regular paycheck.

This is one way to start a modelling career.

Good luck!
 

Felix/FFDS...
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - Jul 12th, 2005 at 5:40pm

matthew954   Offline
Colonel
Gamers make the best Game
designers

Gender: male
Posts: 176
*****
 
Hey thanks, now I just got to think of something cool that someone may want, lol. (something not sci fi related)
 
IP Logged
 
Reply #3 - Jul 13th, 2005 at 3:27pm

|| Andy ||   Offline
Colonel
Shropshire, United Kingdom

Gender: male
Posts: 2711
*****
 
Quote:
Hey thanks, now I just got to think of something cool that someone may want, lol. (something not sci fi related)


Need a good Hawk around here with a good vc lol..

Tucano's are also rare for fs9.. (keep in mind, the tucano is very similar to the brazilian farther, so you could kill 2 or 3 birds with one stone..)
 
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print