Plan B

Well I haven't received any interest from programmers to do the work but I'm not willing to give up my idea just yet. I will have to do it all myself, however, that will a good deal of patience from the audience as well as aide from time to time by actual programmers who know how to properly format a game.

First of all I'll be asking for donations so I can purchase a RAGS license (either 1 or 2 year). If I can't even get enough curiosity in this game to go that far than this idea ends here. After that I probably won't have much to give to anyone until I have a basic framework of the game.

As I build the game I'll be watching the RAGS tutorials on how to program but I will also be asking others to help me create a combat system and format the game so that I can easily add scenes and characters as I go along.

I haven't decided how I will be releasing editions of the game, but the final product will be free and available to everyone (whenever that happens). I have three ideas as follows:





One-time donation: with one donation you will be added to the list of supporters and automatically receive game releases as they become available. Differing levels of donations will also provide additional benefits such as a cheat tool, scene requests added to the game, etc...

Periodic donations: donations provided at the time of a release will grant access to the newest version of the game. While this would require you to pay more often for the releases I would also make the threshold correspondingly less expensive.

Crowd-Funding: any and everyone would be asked to donate whatever they would like to and once said goal has been reached the next release will be available to everyone. This would be similar to periodic donations, but would not exclude anyone from receiving the game once the funding limit had been reached.

My preference is the last one as I would be allowing everyone to play the game who wanted to but it would also give me a bit of an extra push to finish the next update as fast as I could.


In addition the game will not be containing any pictures at the beginning. This is because I would be making money off the game and would be liable for trying to make money off of the work of others. To add images to the game I will need to either receive permission from the creator(s), have images donated freely for use in the game, or commission said images. I hope I could would be able to get by on the first two as they would not necessitate any additional expenditures by anyone, but that's something to worry about at a later date.

Finally, as one final enticement, I've made a little video for you. I couldn't get my converter to work properly so I only have it available in .wmv, but if you really want to watch it you should be able to find something in which to play it.

https://www.mediafire.com/?iayx617a4lttpe5