The best news of the day is that during the past 24 hours we managed to collect $2.310 in pledges!!! One of the best days ever (except for the very start) since the campaign has been running! Woot! Thanks, folks - you are amazingly awesome! As the final power pledge drive: Artifacts still is running (until the 24th of August... time's running out here) this means that ADOM 1.2.0 will get another +4 new artifacts and +4 new items (the whole artifact pledge drive so far has been good for a total of 7 new artifacts you are going to see in ADOM 1.2.0 if the campaign is successful).
So to have a successful campaign we need to collect another $12.644 as of the time of this writing ($14.644 to get awesome NotEye tile support and $19.644 to get the most beautiful tile set ever - which also would benefit ADOM II! How's that for a double-deal?).
Breaking it down to "pledges per remaining day" the campaign needs to raise a minimum of $842,93 per day to be successful at all, $976,27 per day to get basic tile support and $1.309,60 to receive the most beautiful tile support possible. Exciting times... as all money will go back to the donors if we fail to raise the required amount and the campaign will have failed.
The most important challenge seems to be to get the message about the tile support stretch goal. Many folks asked for it but now it seems that we might have lost connection to them as it took some while to figure out how to do tile support... so if you are active in forums, blogs, Twitter and Facebook please spread the news about the possibility of tile support. We just need to get the folks who asked for it to also support that wish with some donations! Thanks!
Whatever the result of the campaign might be... it already has shown that the remaining ADOM community still is among the greatest ever!!! Hugs, folks!
Thomas,
ReplyDeleteon the stretch goals, if the campaign ends at say, theoretically 50k, what happens then - are those stretch goals gone or can pledging continue after that point (as the 48k has been reached)
The campaign definitely ends on August, 30th. If enough money has been gathered by then it will be a success and we'll start to work on the goals and pledge rewards.
DeleteIf we don't have enough funds ($48.000) by August, 30th, all the money from the campaign automatically goes back to the donors and the campaign his failed.
In the latter case I have not much hope for continuing ADOM at any decent speed, in the success case we might consider doing another run or whatever necessary to enhance the game even further (more graphics, more sound, more quests and all that).
That would seem logical - I mean, a lot more people will probably be moved to donate once they see significant progress is being made 1.2.0. (especially with full demo videos of the new tileset plus music, and lists of all the bugs that have been fixed, etc) Keeping it open would help reach those stretch goals . (new quests, classes, etc)
ReplyDeleteIndeed, I don't see why you would stop gathering further donations for the stretch goals just because of the time limit if the initial goal is raised.
DeleteCongrats for making 75% just in time! :D
ReplyDeleteLooks like the campaign is getting a bit more momentum again - this could be the big push at the end that spurs things over the finish line.
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