November 2015, from Paris with Love Work for Hire Real Artists don’t do that! Or do they? WARNING THIS PRESENTATION CONTAINS NUDITY
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November 2015, from Paris with Love
Work for HireReal Artists don’t do that!
Or do they?
WARNING THIS PRESENTATION CONTAINS NUDITY
Original Creation &Work for Hire
● Pastagames initial ambition:– Create Original Games.– Period.
● And we ended up doing Work for Hire 60% or our time,
● And being *very* happy with it.
● Did we compromise?
● Not quite!
Early Days
● Pastagames and imode,
● Self Published!
● Original Creations!
● Complete Freedom!
● 86% RevShare!
● Indie in 2003!
● YaY?
● Hum… wait a minute…
Indiepocalyse, Episode 1
● Hard to get noticed by the gamers (sounds familiar?)
● 3k€ of royalties, a month…
● Especially on a not so popular service (1M devices).
● But we proved we could deliver quality games,
● And drew attention from mobile publishers!
● Work for Hire!
● Profitable (15k€ a month, 2 guys)!
● Easy! More visibility!
● Sold Assets to Infraworlds/Filao (Sofinnova Partners)!
Play it again, Sam
● Nintendo DS Era!
● Closed console. How can we get in?
● Work for Hire!
● Became Official Nintendo Developer,
● Build-a-Bear Workshop sold ~2M copies,
● Enough money to start our own creation,
● And contacts with publishers/distributors to make the box exist!
● Complete Freedom of Creation,
● 50% self-funded, 50% co-produced,
● Promotion! Press Tour!
● Reviews! Awards!
● Pastagames appears on the radar!
● But commercial total failure (~10k units)
Indie, Again!
Work for Hire!?
● Meet Michel Ancel (sheer luck),
● He knows Maestro!
● Wants to make a mobile Rayman!
● Best Work for Hire on earth!
● Millions of copies sold,
● Ubisoft authorizes our logo on the splash screen!
● 88% on Metacritic, Awards,
● Love from all over the world,
● App Store, Best Game of 2012!
Back to Creation!
● Pix the Cat!
● Enough money to fund 100% of our next game!
● Let’s go for HD consoles!
● Shahid Ahmad of Sony Strategic Content knows Rayman Jungle Run!
● PlayStation Plus!
● More than 1 millions players on our own IP!
There‘s a Pattern here, right?
● Creation is the best way to:
– Stay hungry. Stay foolish.– Say who you are,– Show ambition and creativity,– Build and take care of a Happy Team!
● Work for Hire is the best way to:
– Balance the books, and– Fund your creations,– Boost your visibility,– Build solid relations with the publishers, console makers,– Relax a little bit between two exhausting creative periods.
● It’s been working for us, Ok, but are there other examples?
● Yes, quite a few!
Sixtine Chapel’s Ceiling
By Michelangelo Buonarroti (and al. Botticelli, Perugino…).Ceiling painting ordered by Sixte IV, with a clear political objective: prove the supremacy of the pope, and his independence from the christian kings.
Guernica
Pablo Picasso.Painting ordered by the Spanish Republican government, led by Francisco Largo Caballero, for the Spanish Pavillion of the Paris World Fair, 1937.
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci.Portrait ordered probably by Lisa del Giocondo’s Husband (from the Gherardinifamily of Firenze).
Casa Battlo
Antoni Gaudi (& Josep Maria Jujol et Joan Rubió i Bellver).House ordered by Josep Batlló i Casanovas, Barcelona’s Textile Tycoon.
Origin of the World
Gustave Courbet.Painting ordered by Halil Serif Pasha, Ottoman-Egyptian diplomat.
Churches, Museums…
● … are full of Work for Hire!
● Indies, my friends, it’s Ok to do Work for Hire,
● Real Artists do that, and they always did!
Thank you ^_^
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