Pray tell, do you have a backer who was referred from [projecturl]?ref=instant_messenger ?
I do not! Thank you for the referral all the same, but it seems that didnt work... it should have. Maybe the messenger client screws with the url when handling it. They can only do so much with the referral system given how many different ways people interact with the internet. most of /tg/ isn't referred because of the no-linking thing they do to try and stop spamming/viruses.
I'll try the forums, see if anyone is interested. I'll make sure to say you bay12 fellows sent me!
You can never really rely on the projections, especially as our KS has been wonkier in most with unusual spikes and dips... it was saying $60k for most of the first week, but it's dropped to $50k and it'll keep dropping. Shame, if it actually did go up to something like $60k I could probably find a programmer reliable enough to hire on and make multiplayer!
And thanks for backing hemmingjay! We'll definitely make War Room, next stretch goal I'm not sure...
Actually, I've been thinking of ways to sweeten the pot without leading to way more development time.... people seem to just keep seeing "$32000" and not "+$7000, - heavy fees and taxes". Though I have been talking with an accountant (really cool family friend. Offering free advice on the condition "When I do hire an accountant, I come to him first"!), and with his help I might not lose as much to taxes as I was fearing, which means more development time per buck, which means I *might* even be able to package both 2nd stretch goal options into the SAME $32k goal! It would mean a heavier dev cycle for that bloc of features, but I think it would be worth it because it'd be such a rich package that people would really try to get the word out to hit the goal.
I could always put that $60k: Multiplayer goal up there though I feel like it'd just be a tease
And I'm still not sure what goals I'd have on the way, since they couldn't really cost that much (since the money building up to the 60k would be to hire a programmer, not for developing other things).
All of it is probably moot, since 1. that goal is outside of our (falling) trend line, and 2. I'm not even sure who I'd hire or what they would want in compensation...
...and I've had "issues" finding a reliable programmer to work with. While the compensation would certainly help lock someone down, I've tried working with 3 different people on Net Gain before on the promise of a huge share in the profits, but each one flaked on me when it got down to actually *working* on the damn thing, setting me back yet again.
Whew.