Freelance Game Designer's Pay

[Vanuslux]

This has been quite interesting. With just a handful of responses we have those who swear by royalties and those who swear at them, along with a few different examples of different attitudes to different word rates.

As an aside, I have no aspiration of game work ever being my primary source of income. I was just wondering what others considered appealing or insulting at the entry level of the industry.

 

[eyebeams]

This has been quite interesting. With just a handful of responses we have those who swear by royalties and those who swear at them, along with a few different examples of different attitudes to different word rates.

As an aside, I have no aspiration of game work ever being my primary source of income. I was just wondering what others considered appealing or insulting at the entry level of the industry.

The HWA's membership standards are a good objective benchmark, as they specifically mention RPG work payments. See:

http://www.horror.org/memrule.htm

http://www.horror.org/joinhwa.htm

 

[wolfpunk]

If I may add my two cents worth (although I will note it will be more than one word), I only have a few projects out, and I am getting paid royalties.

I never expected to get rich, honestly I thought it was flattering that someone was willing to pay me for something that I would write anyway. I have made a few dollars and I just take the money from my PDF sales and turn around and buy more PDFs with it. The sales from my three PDFs has allowed me to buy more than a dozen PDFs in return. I consider it a great deal. I don't know if being paid by the word would have paid more, but I am certainly not going to complain.

By the way, some kudos for Dave Jarvis and Reality Deviants for all that they have done to help me along the way.