Sounds good guys. By the way, I have an intellectual property that I am developing, which will be fertile ground for a 1st person shooter or RPG, and I would like to talk to you about it in a few days from now, if you're interested, of course.
Alex On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, david blanchard <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > Since the Mozilla submission, Xav and I have been quiet on the mailing list > front, as you probably have noticed. There was a need to rest a little, but > also an opportunity to take the time to better define our respective roles, > before we move on to the next step of the project. This next step will be on > a larger scale than the previous one so there was a need to come up with a > more efficient role definition. > > Here is the way it's going to be done : > > 1) Xav will take the A (i.e. the responsability, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix) on all > aspects related to the production of the Humanity Project and Card Stories. > On my side, I will still remain an active contributor on the project. As > well as a member of the project committee, along with Xav (this is at the > project level), and co-validating with him the expenses (this is at the > studio level). > > 2) On my side, regarding the humanity project, I will take the A on all the > business side of the games and the Farsides studio. > > 3) Another change is that the Farsides studio is going to be a subsidy > (100%) of a holding. > I will explain why it will be interesting to do that. > - There are some opportunities for other video game ventures (co-dev, first > or third party dev, etc) that would benefit from what we're currently > learning with Farsides. But there might be some opportunities that for some > reason (such as the requirements of a third party for instance) will not be > compatible with the 100% open model followed by Farsides. Xav and I want to > use these opportunities, because they can generate short term revenues that > could contribute funding Farsides and HPO, but we don't want to blur the > Farsides 100% open model, so these ventures should happen under the holding > but outside of the Farsides subsidy. > - The investors will fund the holding. Decided at the holding level, part > of the funds will be dedicated to Farsides subsidy (currently HPO/Card > Stories), and the rest will be dedicated to these other video game ventures. > - I will take the A on the development of these other ventures. > > > I think this new organization will be more efficient, and it will also be > easier for everyone here to understand more easily the respective scope of > Xav and I. > > I hope it makes sense, of course don't hesitate to ask for more details. > > Best > David > _______________________________________________ > Farsides mailing list - [email protected] > > Wiki: http://farsides.com/ > List: http://farsides.com/ml/ > Forum: http://farsides.com/forum/ > Ideas: http://farsides.com/ideas/ > Chat: http://farsides.com/chat/ > -- Best, Alex Vachon cartouchecreations.com Follow me on Twitter <http://twitter.com/cartouchefilms> Follow me on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=602172865> Montreal Loves New York Loves Montreal<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_135269469856078&ap=1> New York - Montreal - Vancouver
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