[MUD-Dev] A quick business question...

["Geoffrey A. MacDougall" <geoffrey#poptronik,com>]

Title: A quick business question...

Greetings,

I have a quick business question to pose to a few of the more seasoned Game Developers on this list.

I have a meeting coming up with a new title who wants to enlist my services.  The game has already been conceptualized, so my involvement would not be as a full designer.  I'd be the secondary author/editor of the pre-development document, and an associate designer helping them out with the in-game economy, and the problems of making a "persistent" world (logic abuses, etc.).  There's no money attached to the project yet, so I'd be taking a percentage based on risk instead of a salary.

As for my experience - I have written 1 pre-development document that successfully solicited CDN$205K of development capital (as well as other successful grant proposals outside the industry), and I am half-way through the resulting design document, which has attracted interest from a few major publishers...

What kind of deal should I be looking for?  The lead designer has already done 75% of the design work, so I'm not looking to ask for anything unreasonable or aggressive.

Any advice would be greatly and kindly appreciated... :)

Cheers,

Geoffrey MacDougall