Publisher Collaboration Archetypes Quiz

Discover your natural approach to working with video game publishers during active development and how to leverage your collaboration style for stronger day-to-day partnerships.

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Find Your Publisher Collaboration Style

Once you've signed with a publisher, the real work begins. Day-to-day collaboration becomes the foundation of your partnership—from responding to creative feedback and managing milestone reviews to navigating scope changes and handling unexpected challenges.

This 14-question quiz identifies how you naturally approach the ongoing collaboration that happens after contracts are signed. Whether you're currently in an active partnership, starting development with a new publisher, or helping your team improve their working relationships, understanding your collaboration style can strengthen your day-to-day interactions.

Note: Focus on ongoing partnership dynamics, not initial pitching or contract negotiations. If you haven't worked with a publisher yet, consider how you handle similar ongoing collaborative relationships (clients, co-developers, team leads, etc.).

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Quiz Questions

1. Your publishing team questions a core design decision you feel strongly about. How do you respond?
2. You're running behind on a milestone delivery. How do you handle communication with your publishing contacts?
3. The marketing team wants to emphasize features that don't align with your game's core appeal. Your approach?
4. Your main contact at the publishing team becomes less responsive. What do you do?
5. During a team call, your publishing contacts criticize your latest build more harshly than expected. How do you respond?
6. The publishing team requests significant scope changes mid-development. How do you respond?
7. Your regular weekly check-in consistently runs over time. How do you address this?
8. Your publishing team's QA reports bugs you consider low priority. How do you handle this?
9. Your team is working across multiple time zones with publishing contacts. How do you maintain effective communication?
10. You notice your team is becoming overwhelmed by publisher requests and feedback. What's your approach?
11. Your publishing contacts suggest adding a feature that would require significant development time. How do you respond?
12. When unexpected issues arise, how do you typically communicate with your publishing team?
13. Your publishing contacts ask for more frequent check-ins than you feel are necessary. How do you handle this?
14. Looking back on successful collaborations, what do you think made them work well?

Your Collaboration Style Is Just the Beginning

Understanding your natural approach to publisher relationships is valuable, but great partnerships require adapting your style to different situations and people. Use these insights to:

Leverage your strengths more intentionally, recognize your blind spots and when to compensate for them, and communicate more effectively with publishers who have different working styles.

Consider sharing this assessment with your team to better understand how you can support each other in publisher interactions.

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