Plastron Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Well I finally got round to getting in to the loft and I have found a couple of documents that may interest some of you. I will scan these during the week and release them to http://www.atarimania.com/ for inclusion on their fantastic site. The document are the commercial contracts for two games Plastron and Heartache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 (edited) Well I finally got round to getting in to the loft and I have found a couple of documents that may interest some of you. Dunno about anyone else, but i like seeing little snippets of history like this - ta for (about to be) doing that. =-) Edited February 11, 2006 by TMR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 I should scan and upload the two contracts for the books I wrote in 1984/5 (Games for Your Atari 600XL and Astounding Arcade Games for the Commodore 64). I could write a novel about how the publisher violated every single point of the contract (although that seems to be par for the course in the computer industry). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastron Posted February 14, 2006 Author Share Posted February 14, 2006 OK it is done contract sent to http://www.atarimania.com/ so they will hopefully post it to the game link soon. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 Really great Andy, thanks again -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 OK it is done contract sent to http://www.atarimania.com/ so they will hopefully post it to the game link soon. Andy 1018409[/snapback] Really great Andy, thanks again -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com 1018440[/snapback] Yes, many thanks Andy! The contract is online now: http://www.atarimania.com/detail_soft.php?...VERSION_ID=4002 It's really fantastic to have access to such a unique document. I bet that I wasn't the only one who dreamed of signing a piece of paper like that back in the 80s and 90s! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Interesting - it appears you were getting paid approx $3000 for your efforts plus 15% net of sales. You would need to sell alot of copies to make money on that comission! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastron Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 Exchange rate in 1991 was 0.5148 so was closer to £5000. But as you say its not a lot. This was at the end of the 8-Bits lifes so i wish i had done it 10 years earlier However if you look at it from a point of view is this is something we did for fun. The game took only 6 weeks to make from contract signing to complete game. It was worked on 2 evenings a week and Sunday mornings when i would meet at Andy Mills house. We both did bits on other days but main programming done in 3off 4 hour meet per week for 6 weeks so around 200 man hours of coding. Today you are talking years of man hour per game. You can also get all the source code for this game at http://www.jetbootjack.com/JBJ_oldgamesdownloads.html if you are intereted so you now have full access to everything about this game. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Yeah we didn't pay great did we, heck we had no money either! I still have a LOT of my contracts with Atari, Pysgnosis, System 3 etc - atarimania, would you like to host them too? sTeVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastron Posted February 15, 2006 Author Share Posted February 15, 2006 Steve Do you know if Atari UK are still a company i was going to post the Heartache contract too but there is a clause in it which says i can not do this. If Atari UK are a dead company then it should be OK. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Hi Steve, I still have a LOT of my contracts with Atari, Pysgnosis, System 3 etc - atarimania, would you like to host them too? If it's safe for you to make them public, we'd be delighted to! -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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