FAR Colony Funding & Kambi Engine Donations (Is it possible to make money with open source games?)
The " Is it possible to make money " thread was revived recently. And then two projects I follow announced new funding-'features': FAR Colony (First Autonomous Remote Colony) is "a game of exploration and space colonization being held in the 23th century". An 8 bit funding page was created [ announcement ] for it recently. The target is $800 in 109 days. A note at the bottom says: Of course this project will continue to progress even if my goals aren't reached, it will be more slowly and limited without but will stay alive ! This makes me wonder: how to motivate donations towards open source games (besides making a good game ;) ). Kambi (VRML) Engine has introduced a fundry.com page for project pledges, feature pledges and donations [ announcement ]. Fundry.com looks interesting and like an easy way to play the 'donation game', a concept I talked about long ago. Fundry currently accepts paypal only. The only other open source game projec...