Due to all the layoffs recently: If you are asked to sign a severance agreement, please check it with a lawyer. Yes, even the ones that look good already. This can cost money, but sometimes the severance can include the lawyer payment. Just ask! For example, in Europe, ask @aceottorney.bsky.social

Announcing Herdles, an open world adventure where you play as a dog… mine! ☀️ A vibrant open world with ethereal dungeons! 🌈 No combat, no death – just cozy fun! 🐶 Dedicated bark button! ❤️ Inspired by my dog Snoopy! As seen in the @futuregamesshow.bsky.social

We made an episode about publishing contracts and somehow, it's one of our most fun ones yet. Video Game Lawyer René @aceottorney.bsky.social joins our show and makes legal feel almost.. approachable? open.spotify.com/episode/6ss2... Have fun listening! #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #podcast

#45 - Publisher Contracts Explained (Behind the Build #1) - René Otto (Deviant Legal)

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Stop! Art Thief! @aceottorney.bsky.social and I joined forces and wrote a guide to tackling art theft on Wacom Yuify's blog! Link below. 👇

The only double winner of the evening, @sokpop.co took home the Dutch Game Award 2025 for Best Game and Best Game Design from the Dutch Games Association. The award also honoured attorney René Otto (@aceottorney.bsky.social) and Engine Software's Ivo Wubbels. www.gamesmarket.global/sokpops-grun...

Sokpop's Grunn is Dutch Game of the Year 2025

The only double winner of the evening, Sokpop Collective took home the Dutch Game Award 2025 for Best Game and Best Game Design from the Dutch Games Association. The award also honoured attorney René ...

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A contract from a publisher is a dream come true - but what offer should you actually sign? We are bringing @aceottorney.bsky.social to an upcoming openindie episode! 👇 Drop your questions below and we’ll ask René on the show! #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #podcast

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Dit is een van de leukste dingen die ik heb gedaan tot nu toe. Met dank aan @aceottorney.bsky.social voor het advies rondom auteursrecht van Sinterklaasliedjes. (Laat even een like achter op de IG-post zodat ik dit vaker kan doen ✌️) www.instagram.com/reel/DRe-WnZ...

The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale 🌾 🌱grow plants to create living ecosystems 🦉become friends with ancient spirits 🛠️make your own upcycling hub 🤗and hug ALL the animals! Follow us so you don't miss the demo! Thank you #PitchYaGame <3

While legal questions are still the ones I get most often, the second most frequent has been: “When are you releasing merch?". We are excited to share a first look at Deviant Legal's esports jerseys in the works!

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

René Otto@aceottorney.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

Tomorrow I will be releasing a free resource relevant for any game developer looking for a publisher. However, I really want to reach people outside of my bubble. Anyone has some golden, last minute tips?❤️

Tomorrow I will be releasing a free resource relevant for any game developer looking for a publisher. However, I really want to reach people outside of my bubble. Anyone has some golden, last minute tips?❤️

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Video Game Advisory Board. This board of renowned professionals of the international games industry will ensure that we receive expert insights on how we can help and bring value to the industry!

Recently, everyone seems to talk about Nintendo's controversial patent on a Pokémon mechanics. A common misconception seems to be that Nintendo now has a monopoly on the creature taming genre or autobattling. This is wrong.

We are proud to announce Deviant Legal’s brand-new visual style and website, which reflects our rapid growth with a more professional and established look: www.deviantlegal.com

Proud to announce that Romana Baboeram has joined Deviant Legal. With her impressive professional cosplay career and commercial experience, she will further help us deviate from traditional law firms.

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer

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The month of September will be a very special one for Deviant Legal, as we will evolve: it is time for the next stage of our mission to democratize access to legal for the games industry!

Within a few days, I will be present at Devcom and Gamescom, to promote the mission of Deviant Legal: democratizing access to legal for games. No soulslike jargon, but personable help from lawyers from within the industry.

I want to create a database of EU-based #nsfw games that includes payment infos so people can manually purchase games via wire. No idea if this makes any sense or will work but I want to do something. Submit your game: tally.so/r/nrM05R Database: cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sh... #gamedev #indiedev

Submit NSFW Game to EU Anti-Censorship Database

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Zein ➜ Soulblaze Out Now@zein.games · last yr.

Thinking about somehow making a rudimentary nsfw game database for Europe-based games with price and bank information so people could wire money to buy. As far as I read the games are still available on Itch, just not searchable so devs could still could give keys after purchase. Stupid or not?

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign But we can EASILY top 1,000! I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send! ↻💬♡ to boost We CAN make a difference 💕 #itch #censorship 1/🧵

If you care about games, take a moment to read through this and take action. NSFW games might not be for you - they're not for me - but we cannot allow a small group of censorious extremists to decide that people can not make games about sex, about sexuality, and about the role of sex in our world.

Void🔞 | VGen@voiddebris.bsky.social · last yr.

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign But we can EASILY top 1,000! I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send! ↻💬♡ to boost We CAN make a difference 💕 #itch #censorship 1/🧵

Cozy #PitchYaGame unite! The Regreening is a cozy nature-restoration game about healing🌾 🌱grow living ecosystems 🦉become friends with ancient spirits 🔥 share stories by the bonfire 💧 engineer water & land to make nature thrive 🌿 watch the world bloom again Follow us so you don't miss the demo!

Day 2 of Twitchcon👀

GIVEAWAY: do you, or someone you know, want to attend INDIGO but find the cost a barrier? I will be giving away (at least) two tickets to people from marginalized backgrounds who struggle to access the event.

The amazing You Miichi is working on something playful and deviant behind the scenes. In case you are curious for what purpose she is creating this, then you will need to be at INDIGO on May 27 & 28 in Rotterdam! 👀 There will be a fun surprise starring our favorite Ace Otter-ney! 🦦

The amazing You Miichi is working on something playful and deviant behind the scenes. In case you are curious for what purpose she is creating this, then you will need to be at INDIGO on May 27 & 28 in Rotterdam! 👀 There will be a fun surprise starring our favorite Ace Otter-ney! 🦦