Chip's Challenge 2 Slight Progress

[haichodansemo]

Hello CC Zone Community. Some of you are probably aware that Chuck Sommerville has moved on from CC2 and is working on Chuck's Challenge. I am unsure if the people of CC Zone have moved on from the anticipation of CC2, but to those who still have hope, I need your help.

The rights to Chip's Challenge and CC2 belong to Bridgestone Multimedia Group and Alpha Omega Productions. For the past two weeks, I have sent a few emails to them and received a response from Beth TeGrotenhuis, the president of AOP (I asked for them to forward my messages to her). This is her reponse:

Date: 06/06/12

David,

I received a forwarded email asking me to contact you.

It is apparent from your email that you are extremely frustrated and are passionate about Chips Challenge. I would entertain a formal written business proposal from you or Chuck for Chips Challenge 2, but please understand that I will make no promises.

I am sorry that you are frustrated and that you feel I have been ignoring the issue. If you submit a proposal, I will review it with our board and you will get a final decision.

Thank you.

Beth

After reading multiple posts on various other forums, many people never received a response from AOP or Bridgestone, so I was shocked to see this. I understand Chuck has been under a lot of stress about CC2, but I decided to message him about this the next day. He directed me to his buisness manager, Barn Cleave, who sent me this:

Date: 08/06/12

Hello David

Good to meet you. Now as you know Chuck has already create CC2 and as you also know Chuck tried to get permission from Alpha Omega Productions to release the game but that never happened.

What you don't know is the why. Now to save you finding out by spending month talking to Alpha Omega Productions, I'll explain what Beth means by a 'formal written business proposal'. What Alpha Omega Productions wants are three things:

<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]To be paid about $1,000,000 upfront

[*]A big cut of any games sold

[*]To keep the rights to the game and all future games

</ol>

Yes, I know it is hard to believe but yes they want a lot of money and in return Alpha Omega Productions still get to keep everything. So even if Alpha Omega Productions received $1m and the game was produced, after a period of time Alpha Omega Productions would want more money and if Alpha Omega Productions did not get it the game would be removed from all the shops/websites.

So I hope this explains why we have started Chuck's Challenge.

What you could do is reply to Beth and say would Alpha Omega Productions accept a revenue share model with no minimum guarantees to see what her response is. As they may have changed there views.

Thanks

Barn

I had a feeling there was a catch, and I was unaware they wanted $1,000,000, which I originally thought was $100,000. However, in my messages to Beth, I told her that $100,000 was unreasonable and if there was another way Chuck could release the game, and from her reply in the first quote, it seems she might be willing to cooperate...

[Please note I have no knowledge on writing a business proposal and need help with it!]


I was hoping the community of CC Zone can give me their insight on this. What would you suggest I can add to the business proposal to convince AOP to release CC2? If they are willing to cooperate with us,this can be our chance for CC2 to finally be publically released! It is either now or never, so please leave me your insight. It may be highly unlikely AOP will agree, but it doesn't hurt to try.

Thanks guys.