GAMEproducer, the first online service that matches interactive game developers with publishers and other firms that require their services, has signed up a large portion of the development community. While only in its' beta stage, GAMEproducer already has over 300 game development companies listed, including many AAA developers who have capacity between projects. Publishers who sign up at GAMEproducer have access to some of the best development talent in the games industry, in an anonymous, neutral marketplace.
Publishers can post RFPs on a non-exclusive basis on the GAMEproducer site and generate multiple bids for projects from leading developers, without the time and effort it would take to establish these connections through traditional channels. GAMEproducer provides developers with the opportunity to bid on projects they would not know of otherwise, increasing their project selection and allowing them to work with publishers with whom they previously had no contact.
GAMEproducer is a joint venture combining the game industry expertise of SR-71 Game Scouting and the technological talents of askSam Systems. SR-71 Game Scouting specializes in finding products for computer and video game publishers that support their product line and improve their profitability. SR-71's contact manager includes contacts at over 2,500 computer and video game publishers and 1,000 developers, as well as extensive information on their product lines and strengths. askSam Systems develops the world's most popular text-database and publishing tools, including the free-form database askSam and SurfSaver. askSam databases provide a flexible and powerful full-text searchable database engine for many leading websites.
GAMEproducer will officially launch August 24. Jerod Kirby, Managing Director of GAMEproducer says, “We are very pleased with the momentum we generated over the past two months. This is a clear indication of our market leadership and our ability to match the buyers – publishers – with the suppliers.