For more technical information on ActiveMARK™ 6.0, check the Advanced Technical Documentation.
To learn more read through our ActiveMARK™ Products and Services summary to find out why digital distribution and copy protection is so important and how ActiveMARK™ does it so well.
Digital distribution of your content is easy using ActiveMARK™. The first step is to download the ActiveMARK Packaging Central Application. You will then need to package a game and sign a distribution agreement to authorize distribution of your product on the Trymedia network and allow you to post a link for your customers.
The packing process will protect your content, build an installer and upload the finished product for distribution.
Below you will find more detail on the steps associated with packaging and distribution.
- You will need to fill out contact information and click the beta agreement to proceed to the download.
- After you download the ActiveMARK™ 6.0 BETA, you will receive an email with contact information. Use this information to contact us to get in touch with your account representative.
- Your account representative will supply you with our developer, publisher and affiliate agreement.
- If you lose all your information, Contact Us and we will be happy to help you out.
- After you have packaged your product, you will be provided with a link by which you can access your packaged product.
- You may distribute this link for others to download your product. Before the game may be purchased by customers, Trymedia will verify the game is packaged properly.
- We strongly suggest developers and publishers hold a public beta to solicit feedback before distributing their game to external distribution channels. You may use the link to distribute your beta to your beta testers. Read more about Betas and Press builds here: Beta and Press Build Guide for Developers.
Creating your custom business model is easy with ActiveMARK™'s flexiable secure DRM, distribution services, largest digital distribution network and large catalogue of both casual and core game titles.
ActiveMARK™ utilizes four separate areas of security: prevention, detection, response and healing to ensure safety of your content. ActiveMARK™ provides prevention appropriate to protect high profile content for both digital and retail distribution.
For more information on the security offered by ActiveMARK™:
- Trymedia is available to offer technical support to ensure you are able to properly package your products.
- If you would like packaging services, contact your Trymedia representative. Our packaging services are avaliable at a reasonable cost and for many customers it is cheaper than assigning internal resources to packaging.
- Trymedia offers professional services to assist customers in creating their sites: Professional Services .
- Trymedia offers full customer support for our distribution clients.
- Trymedia fields all download, activation and purchase complications.
- All gameplay issues will be collected and sent to the developer.
- Standard distribution agreements include hosting of content.
- Special arrangements can be made if you would like to host your own downloads.
- You will not be charged variable rates for download costs.
- Reasonable bandwidth costs are included in the base rate. The exception is for large games, contact your account representative for current pricing for large games.
- Trymedia's customer service department will handle all returns and fraud incidences.
- Download size:
- Time to download significantly affects the ratio of people who start to download your game and those who actually purchase the game. This rate of download initiations to purchases is termed conversion rate and will be displayed in your online sales reports.
- Small casual titles should aim for < 5MB, more involved casual titles should aim for < 10MB.
- Core titles should look into ways to decrease the file size. Content compression is a common addition to digitally downloaded games.
- Game difficulty and appeal:
- When using digital distribution, you will need to ensure your game is easy to learn and hooks the player within the trial period.
- Research popular casual games to gather ideas for trial criteria.
- External Links:
- All external links inside your game must be removed before uploading your game to the Trymedia network for distribution to our affiliate sites.
- All major distribution sites will require no links to your site – they will not make any exceptions for your game.
- You may keep links inside of your game only on distribution sites that you control.
- Contact your account representative to verify you have the proper agreement signed to distribute your game on the Trymedia network. Your game will automatically be presented to our affiliates as suitable content for distribution.
- We encourage all of our developers and publishers to seek distribution on all external distribution channels.
- Trymedia does not represent developers or publishers to external distributors outside of the Trymedia network. Contact your account representative to gather contract information for distribution channels and trusted agents.
- We strongly suggest all developers employ an industry professional to review your contract with new distribution channels, publishers and agents. Contact your account representative for a list of trusted agents and publishers.
Just like retail sales, the number of copies you sell varies significantly with the appeal of your game to the market and the marketing exposure. Fortunately, there are many things you can do as a developer increase the digital marketing exposure and appeal of your game.
A small casual game studio creating slightly above-average selling titles will need to release multiple titles a year. Contact your account representative for more detailed information on royalty rates and distribution reach. Unfortunately Trymedia can not disclose estimated royalty rates or sales numbers for portals outside the Trymedia Network we will however introduce you to agents who can help you with your business planning.
For larger budget titles normally sold in retail locations, digital distribution is a good way to quickly increase the customer base for your title. Additionally, games no longer receiving retail marketing and shelf space will often continue to sell digitally, especially if the title has addictive gameplay.
Trymedia has existing relationships with many publishers, contact us if you have any questions about distribution of a title
owned or exclusively distributed by a publisher.
For more technical information on ActiveMARK™ 6.0, check the Advanced Technical Documentation.To learn more read through our ActiveMARK™ Products and Services summary to find out why digital distribution and copy protection is so important and how ActiveMARK does it so well.
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