{"id":6158,"date":"2026-10-24T21:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/?page_id=6158"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:35:15","slug":"budget","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following is provided as a simplified overview of our Asset licenses.<\/strong>
Nothing written here overrules our license terms<\/a> nor is legally binding or contractual.
Always refer to the actual Candy Arts licenses for the most accurate information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Budget<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you create a project under our Indie licenses, you need to track the money you spend on it:<\/strong>
\u2022 The Free and Indie tiers have budget limits: when a project exceeds those limits, it must be licensed under the Professional tier.
\u2022 The Professional tier requires that Major Assets pay fees based on the project’s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What counts in the budget:<\/strong>
\u2022 Employee salaries\/wages for work on or related to a project.
\u2022 Commissioned work (e.g. paying an artist to make custom art assets).
\u2022 Digital asset purchases (e.g. ready-made art assets).
\u2022 Software license fees (e.g. 3D design software).
\u2022 Marketing costs (e.g. paying for ad space somewhere).
\u2022 Media licensing costs (e.g. fees or royalties for the use of music).
\u2022 Third-party services (e.g. legal advice, accounting services, server hosting).
\u2022 Distribution costs (e.g. shipping physical copies, hosting a game for download…).
\u2022 Operating costs (e.g. hosting and running game servers after release).
\u2022 The budget of Expansions, Access Products and Alternate Versions (see Related Works<\/strong><\/a>).
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What doesn’t count:<\/strong>
\u2022 Payments made to Candy Arts, such as license fees or royalties.
\u2022 Commissions that stores or payment processors take on sales.
\u2022 Hardware purchases.
\u2022 Your own time and work.
\u2022 Learning costs (e.g. tutorials or courses).
\u2022 General overhead not specific to your project (e.g. renting an office, electricity bills…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some expenses can be split or only partially counted:<\/strong>
\u2022 Expenses can’t normally be split between multiple projects: the full cost must be counted for each project.
\u2022 Salaries can be counted in proportion to the work performed on a project.
\u2022 Software license fees don’t count for months where the software wasn’t used for a project.
\u2022 The above are subject to specific conditions: see the actual license terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens if you exceed the budget limits?<\/strong>
\u2022 Only the Free and Indie tiers have a budget limit, set at \u20ac7’500.
\u2022 This is a separate limit for each project: you can work on two Indie projects with a budget of \u20ac7’000 each.
\u2022 If you exceed the limit, your project must upgrade to the Professional tier, which has no budget limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How are budget-based fees calculated?<\/strong>
\u2022 Fees are calculated for each \u20ac25’000 interval in a project’s budget, starting from \u20ac0.
\u2022 For each interval, the project must pay Candy Arts a set fee for each Major Asset. The amount of that fee is written inside the Asset’s Usage License.
\u2022 For example, if a project has a budget between \u20ac0 to \u20ac25’000, that’s one interval; if a project has a budget between \u20ac25’000 and \u20ac50’000, that’s two intervals; and so on… If an Asset’s fee is \u20ac250 per interval, a project with a budget spanning two intervals owes \u20ac500.
\u2022 Fees are only owed once for any amount of Budget. For example, the Budget of Expansions is added to your project’s Budget, but either your project or the Expansion would pay fees on that amount, not both.
\u2022 See the Payments<\/a><\/strong> page for payment options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The following is provided as a simplified overview of our Asset licenses.Nothing written here overrules our license terms nor is legally binding or contractual.Always refer to the actual Candy Arts licenses for the most accurate information. Budget If you create a project under our Indie licenses, you need to track the money you spend on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"[]"},"class_list":["post-6158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6299,"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6158\/revisions\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-arts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}