ANTHYMN by String Theory Entertainment — teach music through MMORPG
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Or, more likely, is it just a game that uses music as the power aspect for the PCs? So in the end you are still just clicking mice and mashing keybindings.
I didn't see any information related to unique controllers/interfaces, which would probably be pretty key to mention if that was the case.
As a developer myself I'd highly recommend running away from this kickstarter as the video doesn't show any models, no in game scenes, no UI designs and basically I couldn't find anything started aside from the video & a quick map graphic.
The story is interesting and seems pretty fleshed out, plus I imagine you can't get much further than the previz stage on a project of this scope when funding out-of-pocket.
Only signed up at the $20 level, but may increase for other rewards if they provide more details in the updates.
Take a look at the Creative Team and check out their pedigree. In my opinion, it looks like they might just have the talent they need to get this thing off the ground.
Time will tell if that's actually the case. This is the first kickstarter project I'm following closely enough that it feels like watching stocks... wondering how much momentum a project needs in that first day to predict if it will succeed or fail.
To my mind there is a reason for that - kickstarter allows people who really want a thing to exist to pay the amount that thing is worth to them, and then get it.
No computer game is worth $10'000 just to play. What is worth $10'000 dollars is ownership of the IP, and a share of any profits.
Maybe this is against kickstarters rules, but I'm not sure it should be. I'd happily invest my savings across a spread of carefully chosen crowd funded companies, in the hope that one out of those hundred would make good the losses on the rest.
Why is there not kickstarter style crowd funding platform for investment?
No sign of similar legislation in Canada that I know of.
A crowd equity site doesn't exist in the UK, so I presume it is a regulatory problem, but crowd loans to businesses sites do.
I wonder if a specialist 'loans to businesses' site could loan to businesses that have not started yet, with interest proportional to profit, and a fixed 'interest only' term before repayment. Trading these loans would be a problem, and they would not give control, but for a small holder they would function a lot like shares. Sounds pretty viable.
I realize there are some incentives issues here, e.g. why would the board increase profit rather than increase management pay and break even. Conventionally this is because the shareholders would fire them, and because they are more shareholders than employees. But I believe an appropriate incentive system could be done via loans using contracts.