Before I answer your questions, three remarks:
- First of all, thanks for posting the questions. It's hard for me to determine what people find confusing, and I'm quite willing to clarify things.
- Second, the PocketMatrix / Overloaded game plan is not primarily intended for professionals, but rather for students / talented amateurs. I found it to be extremely hard to earn a buck with game coding for PPC, but I like doing it nevertheless. So I hope this program will help people like me to do what they like and still earn a buck. I'm not a business guy myself, I like coding. And I like the community at PocketMatrix, so I needed a good excuse to spend more time here talking about the topic I love.
- Third, we are not trying to rip anyone off. We have some safety measures to ensure that a) we don't get a huge pile of software that we can't possibly process and b) people don't run away with our library and make money without us.
That being said, on to your questions:
- The developer indeed gets a basic game framework to work upon.
- If we don't accept the software and even modifications won't help, you're free to take out the Overloaded library and replace it by EasyCE 2.0, wich is free software. You'll have to replace some code by your own, and this will get worse once the library expands. But by that time, we'll have had a chance to prove ourselves and you can ask people about their experiences. I believe the existence of EasyCE2.0 is (for now) enough safety for developers to take the risk.
- IF you accept the $1000 cheque, you effectively worked for us. We get the game. For some, this may be a low salary, for others, it's a great salary, and for some, it's a great chance to get a published title under their belt and get paid for it in the process. If you want to keep the rights, don't take the cheque and go for revenue shares instead (more about that later).
- IP: See previous question. $1000 = transfer rights.
- Sources: See previous question.
- Revenue sharing: We have a 50/50 policy when an author adapts his game to work with our GPRS philosophy. With the $500 cheque, this would be more like 70/30.
- Your question about auditing: I don't understand this one, can you clarify?
- Dutch law will be applicable, indeed.
Feel free to ask for additional clarification. I'm not going to hide anything, I promise. There's nothing to hide IMHO, I believe we have a good plan.
About Overloaded in general: Can't tell you much more, we'll go public by the end of the month. The press release starts with some generic stuff about us, more info will be available later. One thing about the payments: That have been taken care of. We have powerful friends.
- Jacco.
