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- From: colin.buckley@rose.com (colin buckley)
- Subject: Royalties/Profits
- Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:45:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.004550.27649@rose.com>
- Sender: usenet@rose.com (Usenet Gateway)
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- Date Entered: 12-23-92 19:43
- S >He could have charged you anywhere from $10 to $15 dollars an hour based
- >on an estimation of the difficulty of the work, time requirements, etc
- >etc. And that's DIRT CHEAP for this kind of work, especially if the artist
- >is good. If he's not, then dump him and use someone else who can deliver
- >value to you on the next game.
-
- He isn't a professional graphic artist, he can do the same quality though.
- He has no credentials, experience, and never thought of himself as an
- artist until I proposed we work together on various game ideas. Then
- I didn't even think he would be as good as he is. He certainly had
- no samples to send to potential employers. The reason I proposed the
- "partnership" was because we were friends and I knew he could write
- music. I had planned on doing the graphics myself.
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- He can definately draw though, but this isn't an epic Sierra adventure
- with 100's of full 256 VGA backgrounds and animated characters. He
- drew one full screen, the player in his various positions, a ball,
- and a close up of a head that talks. Is that equal to 5000 lines of
- source code? Having done both programming and graphics work, I can't
- say it is. Going by classes, I'd have to say I'm a fast programmer too.
-
- I don't lack any artistic or creative skills, I did some graphic work aswell,
- I'd just rather program. When he was a sysop, his board was plastered
- with my ansi and graphic art.
-
- I disagree that it's not time based. If there were 2 programmers, and
- him, he'd want his 50%, leaving the programmers 25% after spending much more
- time on it.
-
- I can see I won't be getting any sympathy from the replies so far, he
- has no net connections so atleast I can complain without worry of losing him.
- Of course, why would he go if he's getting 50%..
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