Do you know Go4Spirit (Game Publisher)?

[e-funsoft]

I was contacted by a person from www.go4spirit.com. He offered to publish my game Fruit Lockers for German audience. I visited their website but did not see any games there. Well there were 4 game titles, but only titles, no other information/links for the games.

He also offered to publish Fruit Lockers through www.t-online.de - the biggest telcom portal by far in Germany, according to him. I tried to find more information about this publisher through Google, but I do not understand German language in the search results.

So, have you ever heard or worked with this publisher? I would appreciate it if you could give me any information/advice.

[joe]

Never heard of them, altough it seems that I live only 70-80 km away from them :-) I think these guys are just starting over.

But I can tell you that t-online.de is very big in germany and they sell a lot of popular software (applications as well as games).

[Sirrus]

I think that the only great advice we can ever offer when it comes to unknown foreign publishers - payment *upfront*...

Rule is if they can't front advances, then they aren't worth dealing with. Too risky.

[Anlino]

Contact them, and ask for information about the games. A few searches on google came up blank. A really nice game BTW, nice to see a - to me - new concept!

[JoKa]

Founded in 2001, but I can't find a phone number on the website. They worked as developers on a game called "Voodoo Island", but it was never published. Can't find one of the games listed on their website. I'm not impressed, only up-front payment seems to make sense.

But I guess that won't be an option for an ESD-deal for sale through T-Online. So you would have to trust them with the payment...

It doesn't look like they publish games, I guess they only sell licences to real publishers.

[Michael Flad]

It's a pretty old company that went through various states. Their former name was Media Publishing (released the RTS Mayday), since then they mostly did development for publishers (JoWood, 10tacle) but I don't know of any released game since Mayday.

The last project was Voodoo Islands which had a pretty good start (great unique look and the most impressive water rendering some years ago) but it went through different changes during the years and, as far as I know was developed latley by some other developers (maybe canceled meanwhile).

So in the end - they have to be pretty good in getting funding/investors, they have years of industry experience and contacts so they may be a reasonable good partner. But because they didn't release a lot of games, just be carefull and try to accept the least possible risk, as someone else mentioned a reasonable upfront payment could be a good start.