As promised in another thread, here's a cautionary tale of woe regarding the games publishing business.

A few years ago, myself and Paul (Bourne) were happily working away on a website for a free game setting. It was called a|state. Paul did the art, I did the words, some people liked it, happiness ensues. Now, one evening, after a particularly glowing round of online praise and bloated with ambition, we thought "I wonder if we could publish this?"