Austin, TX
Quoted from Law:So the idea here is to "pay" people for designing mechs and interesting layouts by giving them one free game once they've been developed? Then Heighway takes these and produces re-skinned games in quantities of hundreds or thousands? In the process you're having a team of unpaid QA/QC testers debug your platform and provide additional IP for you to use?
Seems like a raw deal for everyone but Heighway. Advancing the hobby and industry is well and good but relying on volunteers in this fashion smells off to me. Even interns get paid.
sounds to me like a way to soak up potential future competition by making their ideas the IP of heighway. do they really have any interest in letting others design their games? thats like if a brewery went to a bar and asked people to write recipes in exchange for some of the beer when and if it was brewed. all the creativity lies in the design of the game, seems odd that their passing this task off to their fans before game one has even left the factory.
