Sam Barlow and Cable Sasser, developers of the popular video game indie Her story D Nameless goose gamereceived an “irresistible” offer from Tesla: port your games to Tesla car screen, without paying them a dimenot for a job, not for a license. This offer, of course, they rejected.
Tesla claimed that work and play license compensated”exposition“what does it mean appear in a tesla car. While they will be making money from the subscription, they are charging their customers.
The powerful infotainment system that Elon Musk’s official cars are equipped with allows play video games displayed on the car screenbut only when the car is stopped.
It already has several such apps, like the great Cuphead, and recently showed off a beta version of Steam integration.
Tesla’s strange offer to video game companies
Whenever integrate games into your platformespecially if these games are not sold to customers, and the creators do not earn money, it is logical, firstly, pay for a license to use the game. And secondly, arrange with the company to see who pays the porti.e. converting the game to software that Tesla uses and tweaking the performance to your hardware.
If you also plan to charge subscription to customers to use gameslogically you should give part to its creators.
These are the usual “rules”, so it’s surprising that Tesla skips all of them and asks what video game companies do all the work for free because going out in Tesla’s car gives you fame.
Tesla Eleven asked us to put her story in the car. I asked how much they would pay for the license and engineering coverage – they offered zero, I believe I would get exposure.
— Sam Barlow 🔥 Buy IMMORTALITY! (@missambarlow) October 31, 2022
“One day Tesla contacted us and asked us to port our game Her Story to his car. I asked how much they would pay for the license and for the engineering work. They assumed that nothing he would think of the exposure he would receiveexplains Sam Barlow in a tweet via Digital Trends.
As we have already mentioned, the creator Nameless goose game Cable Sasser tweeted that they were made the same sentence.
And although they are independent companies, both games have won numerous awards and have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. They don’t need to be exposed or advertised.
strange offer Tesla for those video game creators convert your games to tesla cars without paying themIt didn’t have a good ending. The question is, what arrangement did they agree on with the creators of Cuphead?
Source: Computer Hoy
