Guides from the production side.
Practical writing on publishing contracts, production, and platform delivery. Written from experience, not from a template.
Simship Work-Back Schedule Planner
Work back from your launch date to schedule cert, QA, content lock and submissions across every platform in your simship.
Publisher Pitch Deck Template
A free, ready to use deck for pitching your game to a publisher. Fourteen slides, from elevator pitch to budget request. Free download, no email.
Steam Wishlist Target Calculator
Turn your unit target into the wishlist count you need by launch, with a gap from your current wishlists.
Publishing Break-Even Calculator
See how many units you need to sell to clear recoupment at 1x, 2x and 3x, after platform cut, regional pricing, tax and returns.
What '50/50' actually means
The revenue split is the number everyone talks about in the pitch. It is also probably the least useful number in the whole contract.
What a publisher actually reads in your pitch deck
A publisher isn't just evaluating your game. They're building a risk model.
Publisher's Game Budget Calculator
Build a realistic project budget from dev costs, publisher markup, marketing, and services. The starting point for any deal conversation.
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