Why can't People be Original? (name stealing)

[Prototype]

I made £4 off the flan pack in the last week or so, do I get a prize?

[fr0stbyte124]

You already did. It was £4.
Greedy bastard expecting two prizes.

[Dr. Mackeroth]

This is why we're lacking in productivity. Partially as a result of a lack of funding...

Lol, I don't think we could ever raise the sort of money a professional developer would even bat an eye at. The sort of guys who do indie games as a job are for the most part either
A) insane.
B) working part-time or contracting gigs, or this is their side business.
C) are already successful enough they can afford for it to fail.

Or I guess there is also
D) They got a ridiculous amount of donations through Kickstarter or found a sugar daddy to foot the bill.

And no, we're not doing a Kickstarter. Those people have a legal obligation not to be flakey.

If we found a few other professional programmers who would be willing to make Futurecraft as an indie game for the money, could we then use Kickstater?

[fr0stbyte124]

Kickstarters for free games never do well. Did you want to start selling it?

[Iv121]

There is a reason why there are no kickstarters for mods. Besides what will you do with this money ? Run the servers ? It will eventually run out so you are not using the right way to gather money for server maintenance, this is only useful for the development of the mod itself and I see no way to spend this money in a mod. Yes you can hire ppl to do stuff but rly it is not a mod anymore and it wont work well overall.

[Dr. Mackeroth]

No. What we have is an excellent idea for one game to rule them all. The problem is, we don't have the manpower to make it a reality, so we're making it as a mod is because it is far easier. If we had funding, we could attract more developers with the promise of money, and be able to make it a fully functioning and highly profitable game.

[Iv121]

Somehow I doubt you will ever be able to achieve it. Besides in order to kickstart a game you should have something to showcase.

[Dux_Tell31]

Somehow I doubt you will ever be able to achieve it. Besides in order to kickstart a game you should have something to showcase.

Frost has an algorithm though, am I right?

[Iv121]

Yes so you are going to show a piece of code to the average person ? I imagine how the trailers look then

[Prototype]

Yes so you are going to show a piece of code to the average person ? I imagine how the trailers look then

[Dr. Mackeroth]

We need have a working plug-and-play download for that before we kick-start anything.

[Iv121]

Sorry proto that will not be enough to raise me money for a cup of coffee (well maybe enough for this but you get the point ). That is not impressive enough to justify the existence of a kickstarter, for that you will need at least a complete futureraft mod level of stuff which means again it is pointless to showcase this, I'm not even talking about the fact it is a damn insolent thing to do to demand money for this (or even ask). Instead put a link for donations - it will bring you an identical revenue.

[Dr. Mackeroth]

Build Futurecraft as mod.
Minecraft decreases popularity.
Move Futurecraft to Kick-Starter.
Turn Futurecraft into game.
Make millions.
Invest in space-mining agencies and genetic research/development.
Make billions.
Live in big fancy mansion in the Scottish Highlands.
Live long and prosper.
???
Live forever and prosper.

[ACH0225]

Can we write a Futurecraft novel to get the moneys?

[Dr. Mackeroth]

Yep. And make a movie, and get Steven Spielberg to direct it.