Call Of Duty: Finest Hour - The Contract
January 12, 2007
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Tom: Milestone
Schedule for First Project. Payments totaling $8.5M USD are spread
over the initial game milestones. Since these schedules are
incorporated into the Agreement, the Notes to this milestone schedule
are as important as the other provisions of the agreement. Here the
requirement of approval before payment is reiterated.
Also
Spark is required to do monthly code dumps to Activision throughout the
progress of the Game pre-Alpha, and then weekly builds thereafter. It
also includes Activision’s detailed requirements for the Final
Milestone Schedule (FMS), Technical Design Document (TDD) and Game
Design Document (GDD) that are very informative. I recommend anyone
serious about working with a major publisher like Activision or in
making AAA titles take a close look at these notes because there is a
wealth of information in them.
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