This is said Trent. The article did always say the game would remain open source, it was just a poor choice of words with the title. But that could have been clarified by reading the article. A mistake, nevertheless.

When trying to distribute a game as widely as possible, simply having a torrent available is not enough. The vast majority of the downloads were Windows users who (like myself) probably don't even use torrents or have a client installed.

The mistake was underestimating the cost of operations. I'm guilty of that. Instead of getting 2 years out of the $1500 I got 1 year. The campaign wasn't just about server costs though. It says on Indiegogo still of you go there that we'd need money for our next game. So far that's cost me a lot more than $1500. I'm paying that with bank loans in hopes of maybe one day getting it back, but I realize I might not. This is a game I specifically made deals with all involved that I could (and I emphasize this) potentially (end emphasis) make it open source after 2 years. It's in the contract.

So basically what happened is, people pledged a total of $1544 toward open sourcing the game (still in effect) and making the game a free download (in effect for 1 year, over 250,000 downloads.) I personally don't see it as a failed campaign, just simple lack of perfect foresight.

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Thanks! I can't take credit for either of those things though. :) Our artist Tony made all the graphics, and our writer John wrote the script.

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Thanks for buying Monster RPG 2. I look forward to finishing CP so more people can try it out! :)

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Since I like you guys so much and I'm so happy to have this posted here, I added 64 bit Linux support ready to download. Also, I forgot to mention that everyone who buys alpha access gets access to our bug tracker. The site has been updated. Thanks! :)

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Nice. I pledged to this one so I can't wait to try it out next year.

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My middle name is Michael. Close enough. :P

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Thanks, and thanks for your contribution! :)

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It could happen! We're at $1231 now. Anyhow, thanks for posting this and the continued support throughout this campaign and before.

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Looks like it would require quite some work and time to support, unfortunately. I would need to do some paperwork for the UK tax office and so on. In my experience this usually takes a couple months. I don't think I can do it, but thanks and I'm sorry. :(

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Let me look into it for you. Can't promise anything. :)

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