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Kongregate is now offering to fund developers to create premium flash games.

Chris Pasley is running this program and I've asked him to give a short summary on what the program is and how it works.

Basically, Kongregate is going to fund some bigger, community-based games. We really want to kind of raise the bar on Flash games a notch, and at the same time kind of seed some interesting new game development. We pay the total cost of production up to $100,000, which is considered an advance on royalties. In return we get exclusivity of the game for a year, and take the lion's share of the earned revenue from the game until our initial investment has been recouped (called earn-out). After that the ratios change and the developer starts getting the majority of the money. Should be cool. We're also giving developers access to a still-in-development multiplayer API and a wallet API that could be used for microtransactions.

All you are asking for from developers is a 1-2 page writeup. Don't you need more information or a rough demo?

In my experience, I've found that a 1-2 page writeup is enough. If you can't hook me on a game in two pages, you're not going to do it with twenty. Of course sometimes people go over, especially when they include art, and that's fine, as long as I'm not reading thirty pages of game design document that doesn't really tell me what the game's about. I haven't really gotten flooded with too much junk so far. Mostly I get a lot of developers who are so used to playing it safe when trying to work with game portals that they're scared to pitch anything too different -- when different is exactly what we want!

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