{"id":1320,"date":"2007-01-12T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"Jare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"AAA Development Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/features\/20070112\/spark_01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">commented reproduction<\/a> of the <i>Call of Duty: Their Finest Hour<\/i> development contract between Sparks Interactive and Activision. This document was made public as part of the legal battle between the two companies. It contains everything: clauses, obligations, warranties, assignment of rights, dates and payments, royalties, key team members &#8211; the whole shebang. Three lawyers comment the details of each section, and what problems they think could arise in the future.<\/p>\n<p>If you are at all interested in learning about the workings of development contracts, this is one hell of a chance to do so for free. It won&#8217;t turn you into an expert, so certified and competent legal advice is still crucial for your own contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The rough numbers: 21 months, $8.5 millon for a major game on PS2, XBox and Gamecube, in addition to the cost of the game engine, translation and other services that the Activision was to provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra has posted a commented reproduction of the Call of Duty: Their Finest Hour development contract between Sparks Interactive and Activision. This document was made public as part of the legal battle between the two companies. It contains everything: clauses, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/?p=1320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iguanademos.com\/Jare\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}