Gary Dahl's Blog - Trust in Crowd Funding. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.
The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. [Reposted from Sugar Pill Studios.] Enthusiastic game developers are understandably embracing the crowd funding dream. Who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to make big money building the game of your dreams with complete ownership and control over the process, product, and intellectual property? Kickstarter and its competitors promise to replace the money of those short-sighted and meddlesome extortionists known as publishers, with the heartfelt contributions of loving fans. But like the Deathstar and Achilles before it, crowd funding as we know it is vulnerable. Trusting that a game will be fun. One of the ways that publishers help developers (collectively) is by using the profits of a few hit games to help subsidize the development of many others.
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Thanks to the generosity of our fuelers, we raised $122 in donations along with donated computer components from two older systems. Total Donations: RocketHub Fees: service fee + processing fee + failure to reach goal penalty = total fees ($4.88 x3 = ) to RocketHub site Taking the donated components together with my older i5 Intel processor, the system lacked only RAM and a CPU cooler to become a functional World Computing Grid node. Missing items obtained from NewEgg during post-Christmas sales: Corsair 240-pin RAM ($77.99) Cooler Master 120mm CPU Cooler (29.04) Your generosity is working to solve global issues even as the STEMuate Learning project works on additional measures to interest young students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) studies! ShareThis. Thanks to all who contributed to my #SciFund Challenge project. NeuroDojo: #SciFund: Practical Procambarus. NeuroDojo: Sayonara, #SciFund.
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Once I get the first node funded, know that your contribution will be actively working towards finding cures for diseases such as Leishmaniasis, AIDS, Malaria and Dengue Fever while also teaching children to be inspired in their studies! 11/21/11: Thank you for your support and fuel for this project! Keli, Calvin and Hope I know that I have already spoken with you in person. To my more remote fuelers - Indrek Mesi, Vladimir Vukicevic and Jonathan Brier - I truly value your selfless contributions to the future of our learners! STEMulate Learning. #SciFund infographics. The hidden agenda behind the #SciFund Challenge. #SciFund Challenge doomed to fail? No way! STEMulate Learning Continues past #SciFund Challenge. Santa Clause Learning Machine. STEMulate Learning Continues past #SciFund Challenge. STEMulate Learning Continues past #SciFund Challenge. #SciFund / The #SciFund Challenge Google+ site!
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