{"id":610,"date":"2010-02-09T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:21:15","slug":"thrilling-tales-continued-and-thoughts-about-fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/09\/thrilling-tales-continued-and-thoughts-about-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales, Continued, and Thoughts about Fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Hijinks<\/a>\n

The rayguns have come out as I near the end of this batch of illustrations in Doctor Rognvald’s lab – and when these<\/em> are done I think I’ll have nearly reached the "light at the end of the tunnel" stage. Almost.<\/p>\n

When I guesstimated that Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves<\/em> would need about eighty illustrations… I was pretty much exactly dead on. Amazing, seeing as how that involved arithmetic and everything. Next time I’ll track the exact number as I refine the script. It was hard this time because some of the story nodes shared the same illustrations and I didn’t keep a tally of those as I went. Anyway, like I said, eighty pictures was about right. Sixty seven down as of this morning.<\/p>\n

I got to thinking last night about Kickstarter.<\/a> That’s a fundraising web site where a lot of musicians and artists are raising funds for their projects. I’m toying with the idea of trying that when I start Part Two of the story.<\/p>\n

The whole thing ends up being a bit like a Public Radio fundraiser in which ever-neater premiums go with the ever-higher contributions. You can see that there’s some math involved there (egad!) to make sure that the total raised, minus the cost of those premiums, still gives you the funds you need. And if the cost of the premiums is high then the project’s funding has to be higher… which makes it harder for the project to reach its goal.<\/p>\n

There are some Kickstarter anecdotes here<\/a> at the Whitechapel forums. Fora. You know what I mean.<\/p>\n

And you need an invitation to start a project, so when the time comes I’d have to scramble around on the web looking for one. But it seems like there’ s some potential there. Still thinking.<\/p>

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Update:<\/strong> the Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual web site is now alive (alive, I tell you!) at thrilling-tales.webomator.com\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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