Gremmi: My experience is that if you're not a known quantity, you're going to get a whole heap of apathy. I'm part of an ongoing charity project, and in an attempt to raise awareness we promoted it on a couple of forums (in fact, it wasn't even really promotion at that stage, merely just asking for feedback). The places where we weren't really known about already came back with harshness and negativity -
for a charity project - and treated us like we'd somehow said something bad about their mothers or something, as if they'd been personally wronged by it.
Wow. That's ridiculous. I guess everyone needs to lengthen their internet cock in some way, even if it means badmouthing charities :P
gameon: The more backers he gets, the more the confidence will grow. So come on GOG forum users, help out a fellow user, and perhaps he will be able to give us an exclusive game for GOG?
That's the hope! I mean, if I was able to release it on GOG, I doubt I'd bother with a release anywhere else. I haven't contacted GOG about it yet, since I'm not sure if I'll get the funding or not.
And yeah... even if you guys don't have money to give, sharing the kickstarter link would be just as helpful. It's already buried, so there's little to no chance that anyone will actually find it via kickstarter.
KillingMachine: I'm thinking it's the "I need people to give me money to buy a computer" thing that sets people off. I'm not saying you should be dishonest, but people should feel more like "I'm giving you money for your time and development costs". I think it would be fine for you to just say that you need funds to help offset some of the hardware/software costs of development. Its saying the same thing, but sounds much better.
Yeah, you're probably right about this. I'll go over what I say in the kickstarter to see if there's a better way to word things.
