There was a good show on cable called GameSpot TV but I'm not sure if it's running anymore. I think they just feed something off of their site now. They covered the basics: showed clips of new games games and did interviews, etc, and they had good hosts. Of course 'had' is the operative word here.
We did this once on a videogame a few years ago and it worked out really well. As a developer we felt it gave us a fair amount of 'protection' from the publisher; should there be any dispute there was a very serious 3rd party interested in mediating any problem.
As long as you, as the developer, are really good at The Paper Trail and you're not trying to hide anything, I really recommend going with a bond. Of course you get the publisher to pick up the fee;-). But you have to have your shit together to do it, and you can't sign up for something you don't think you can really do. It's bad enough to have a publisher breathing down your neck but adding a bank to that would be much worse.
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There was a good show on cable called GameSpot TV but I'm not sure if it's running anymore. I think they just feed something off of their site now. They covered the basics: showed clips of new games games and did interviews, etc, and they had good hosts. Of course 'had' is the operative word here.
We did this once on a videogame a few years ago and it worked out really well. As a developer we felt it gave us a fair amount of 'protection' from the publisher; should there be any dispute there was a very serious 3rd party interested in mediating any problem.
;-). But you have to have your shit together to do it, and you can't sign up for something you don't think you can really do. It's bad enough to have a publisher breathing down your neck but adding a bank to that would be much worse.
As long as you, as the developer, are really good at The Paper Trail and you're not trying to hide anything, I really recommend going with a bond. Of course you get the publisher to pick up the fee
Don't be a dork. It's an interesting problem and it's nice to see so many people being helpful.