[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Games on Linux (was: Wine presentation)

[Steve]

Steve Baker wrote:

> cbbrowne at cbbrowne.com wrote:

> Yes, and if you take payments as low as 0.50c what do you do if (say)
> 200 people pay the money?  You have $100 which isn't enough to do anything
> with - and which is uneconomical to refund.


You could get some rough idea of demand first. "Send me an email if 
you're interested." Of those who are interested, ask them how many 
others could they personally count on to also contribute and so on.


> Hence you have to say something like:  "I want everyone to donate 0.50c
> to help me finish my game - but if less than 4,000 people sign up to it,
> you all lose the lot and I have to give it to charity or something."
> 
> That would be a hard-sell I think.


Well, that may not be a bad idea really. It is going to charity; the 
monetary loss to any particular member is pretty low. Why not donate it 
to insert-open-source-efforts-here? The overall goal is to grow the 
market anyway. I'd do it. Mandrake has an interesting method of 
accepting donations where you can pick which open source effort for your 
money to go to.


> ...well, something like that anyway.  Just counting people I know
> with computers - they *ALL* have PC's - I don't think I know anyone
> with a Mac.


Well, I'm typing this email on Mozilla w/ MacOS X; so you know one! But 
it just depends on the crowd you're more likely to meet up with.

Steve