Rooster Teeth Launches Video Game Publisher to Help Out Indie Game Developers
Rooster Teeth just keeps getting bigger and bigger. With a successful network of YouTube series and two conventions under its belt, the company is now extending its presence in the gaming word. It’s a perfect fit seeing as they started out as a group of guys adding voice-overs to Halo gameplay videos.
Now, they’ve launched Rooster Teeth Games, which will focus on “bridging the gap between independent game developers and the worldwide community of gamers.” What that means is they’ll offer up exposure and, hopefully, appropriate compensation for their work. “With Rooster Teeth Games, we will bring a wide array of engaging and entertaining video games on all platforms to this community, and in turn introduce the indie developer to this thriving demographic,” Michael Hadwin, Director of Rooster Teeth Games, said in a statement.
He added: “We invite the aspiring, stellar, creative indie developers around the world to contact Rooster Teeth Games and pitch their best content and games to us. We are eager to share access to the vast potential audiences within the Rooster Teeth community, and to publish and deliver new and exciting content to gamers worldwide, starting with Battlesloths.” Battlesloths 2025: The Great Pizza Wars is a game developed by Invisible Collective and will be available on Steam in Spring 2017. This comes after Rooster Teeth Games developed and published RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, which is based on the popular animated series.
The big question to ask here is whether or not Rooster Teeth will require one to sign over the rights to their intellectual property. I’m always wary when big companies ask participants to “pitch” them and offer up exposure in return, because it often results in aspiring content creators being taken advantage of. Still, given the upstart background of the Rooster Teeth team, that probably won’t be the case.
To keep up with their new games division, head here.
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