While the the tank simulator game Howitzer Skirmish is 300 USD (222 EUR) away from being GPLed, jClassicRPG's developer is getting a donation-funded 42 USD ATi card to fix some ATi-specific problems.
I made a pretty graphic of the donations sum for Howitzer Skirmish over time.
The diagram definitely contains wrong data because of the following two reasons:
- Some modern websites have the fetish of using "5 months ago" dates (only some elite sites provide exact dates additionally or simply stick with normal date format where appropriate, it seems)
- microPledge is not able to accept two donations from the same person at different points in time. If you donate twice, the first donation will get the sum added to it
Here's the link to the pd-licensed diagram source.
In jClassicRPG's case, it took five hours to reach 130% of the wanted ammount. Timong stated on his blog that the fundraising was an experiment, to show that donation-driven development is possible.
Well, it is. Though maybe not enough to cover the expenses of a non-minimalistic lifestyle.
I hope Howitzer Skrimish will get the 300 USD. And that the possible troubles of microPledge won't destroy the donation progress so far. Now give me money, that's what I want! *sings*
PS: In case you think that Howitzer Skirmish looks like a tech demo and less like a game or in case you weren't content with Stormbaan Coureur; Bram made following statement on the comment section of this post:
once I release my source code, and the community considers it to be a tech demo and not a game, then there will be no pay out. Everybody keeps their money, and Howitzer Skirmish and its data will be GPL.
PPS: What would you pay for? Kiba brought that interesting question up in our forums and I'd love to get more replies to that.