How would people react to a donations -> vr mods gig?

"Twitchmonkey" wrote:
You could also potentially package a bunch of hacks together and put it up on Kickstarter. Make a poll for the top 10 games people want to play with their Rift, then get funding for it, with stretch goals for any games that didn't make the cut.

Interesting idea-- I'd considered using kickstarter but couldn't think of any rewards for backers, although I guess it could be the usual "mention in the readme file" deal or something like that. I do like the idea of doing a top ten though, that stops it from getting to the point where I have to work on 30 things at once :P

"n00854180t" wrote:
Especially for better Skyrim support, I'd drop money on this. At least $20 if not more (for Skyrim support alone).

Cool, maybe there is a chance of this happening then. I really just need enough to pay for a DK2, the games people want me to hack, and a little bit for the trouble. So I guess that's $300 + 10 games x $60, which would be 900, and if I round it up to $1000 then that's probably about how much I'd need to hack ten games. If I cut it down to 5, I'd probably only need to ask for $700, if I did a kickstarter.

"n00854180t" wrote:
if you do decide to start a Kickstarter (or whatever funding) for this, be careful how you set it up so that it's clear you aren't doing something weird and trying to profit off other peoples' games - make it clear that the people are backing in exchange for your (totally independent) work that just happens to run on top of these games.

Good advice, I'll keep that in mind. I've never done a kickstarter before so I'll definitely tread lightly :P

I also thought of maybe patreon but people would end up paying for games they didn't care about that way-- the way patreon works is you have patrons that have agreed to pay a certain amount whenever you produce a unit of whatever it is you make. The kickstarter idea with the poll sounds like a good one, though I'm not sure where to put the poll, or what site to use for it. Any ideas for how to do the poll? Ideally I'd like to reach as many rifters as I can, of course-- I guess I could find some poll website that lets people type in whatever they want and post it in a new thread in the same section as this one or something. I won't actually be able to work on it for about three weeks anyway so this would be a good time to get the poll going.