The content pack is currently in development, sorry it's taking so long but we're very busy.
"FPS Creator will be released shortly" refers to the product being sold on our site, we are buying the product in bulk and retailing it.
As far as publishing goes, there's a huge amount more to publishing than sticking CD's in boxes. It's an industry we have all worked in for a long time. We have a professional copy writer, web guy, a marketing guru and I myself have been in both the games development industry working for Psygnosis and SONY and also in the publishing and marketing of entertainment software.
We do offer a CD manufacture and these will be good quality commercially produced CD's made by a professional mastering company who have some great technology for producing "on Demand" products but that is a very small part of what a publisher does.
We have years of marketing experience and we will work with you to put together a professional marketing plan and marketing materials such as press releases, screen shots, artwork, demos, shareware versions etc. Then we will send all these materials to relevant websites, businesses, publications and distributors.
We're not going to lay out a full marketing plan here, it would be different for every title anyway, but we have found that directed and targeted exposure works best not just getting in front of as many people as you can.
If a game is big enough, then we will look to push it through stores, magazine cover discs and other distributors but this will be a mainly UK based activity at the moment. We will be expanding once we have enough resources behind us.
We have no guarantees, we can't tell you what will definitely work but we do have an open agreement where you retain intellectual rights to your game so you can always sell elsewhere if you feel we are not doing enough. You retain ownership of the product so we only take a cut of the copies "we" sell.
If this doesn't seem like something you are interested in that's fine, it's your game so you have the choice of who to publish with. If you can do all the marketing, promotion, and production yourself then all the better, you may well make more money doing that.
We're not interested in retailing games that's not the direction we want the company to move in but thanks for the offer.
Good luck with your project, I hope all goes well
Phil.
P.S.
The icon is from a Monty Python party :p I know, we British have a strange sense of humour.
[ http://www.cromwellgames.co.uk ] - [ phil.robinson@cromwellgames.co.uk ]
[ http://www.fpscreator.co.uk ] - [ phil.robinson@fpscreator.co.uk ]
