Distribution and Marketing - Game Design Essentials - page 239

B IG F I s h G a m e s s u B m I s s I o n G uIdelInes F o r P C G a m e s (Continued)
The genre your game fits into (if one exists)
And most importantly, a link to download your game and try it
Our dedicated team will review your submission as quickly as possible and
get back to you with options for how we can work together.
Remember, your game doesn't have to be completely finished to show it to
us. We see games at all stages of development. We're happy to give you
feedback or answer questions that will help you move the game towards
completion.
Contact us with your game or any questions at:
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If you have a game that you wish to submit to a portal for review, again, their
business is to be straightforward in their dealings with developers, and they go
to great lengths to avoid theft or plagiarism. If a portal damages relationships
with developers, word of that quickly gets posted to the Internet and can cause
developers to keep away.
Before you submit a game, review the site you're interested in, research posts
about that site, and check the quality of the games posted there. Read the site's
submission policies. Make sure you maintain ownership of your game. Pay
special attention to the payment percentages and timeframes for making pay-
ments (some sites don't pay until nearly three months or longer have gone by).
The usual timeframe that is reasonable for payment is within 30 days of your
game being posted. If a company wants more than 90 days, or specifies a cap of
more than $100 earned before payment can be made, you should probably avoid
that site. Also be sure that payments can be made with the correct currency for
whatever country you're living in.
Other portals, like Pogo, offer a huge variety of games as well; however, their
business model is somewhat different. They offer many of their games, including
those where prizes can be won, on a subscription basis. Pogo also offers some
free games on ad-supported sites.
Quite a few online portals are meccas for gamblers. These sites allow play-
ers to use credit cards or PayPal to play for actual money awards. Many of
the games are typically found in casinos, including poker, blackjack, and slot
machines. For the most part, online sites that offer games where real money is