So i was wondering, what will happen to The Daily Click in March 2009 if no more money is donated to the running of the site? I couldn't help but notice that the donation-deadline is almost upon us!
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
I personally think the DC should be able to run self-sufficiently when you think of all the creative stuff that's on here.
You could consider brokering a deal between CT and the users on the daily click. Several examples are often posted on here to show how to do a certain trick or effect; if we (the community) promised to keep the opensource examples we posted free of copyrighted material, and gave our express permission (perhaps by ticking a box which only appears when you choose 'example' or 'engine' as a download type), then Clickteam would be permitted to use those examples on future MMF Library CDs.
In return, CT would assist TDC with a percentage of its hosting issues.
Then at the end of every month, TDC database would list off links to all the examples, engines and graphics libs that were ticked by their designers and send it as an email to Clickteam. Then CT pays a kind of referral fee to DC
I think this idea's a goer, and it could increase the production of examples, engines and graphics libs (for instance, if people knew that doing so would actually help support the community).
Dines it is scary to get clickteam to much involved since we would like to stay a independed site and share our opinions last thing i want is for this to become a clickteam only site, this was always intented to be a site for the creative minds hence our domain create-games.com
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Originally Posted by Rikus Dines it is scary to get clickteam to much involved since we would like to stay a independed site and share our opinions last thing i want is for this to become a clickteam only site, this was always intented to be a site for the creative minds hence our domain create-games.com
Why is it called the Daily CLICK? Funny how people always used to frown upon Game Maker games
Rikus: Ahah, well I thought of that Basically, by ticking the box when submitting their open source file, the user would be donating that example/graphic library/open source engine/etc to TDC. TDC would in turn sell those files to CT, perhaps at a certain rate per file, or maybe they would value a file based on how cool it is (so another movement engine may not be worth as much as a complete game engine with physics and particle effects).
It would be entirely commercial, so rather than sponsoring TDC, they'd actually be customers - paying for a service rendered to them by TDC. If they ever had an issue with TDC (such as accepting Construct apps one day, which is the only issue I can really forsee) they would simply refuse to purchase the examples and you're back where you were before. But no worse off.
Even if that happens and the arrangement dies a death after 6 months, TDC has had 6 months to get extra donations, and CT has a bunch of open source files it can use unreservedly as it pleases, so everyone's a winner as far as I can see
In addition, and possibly the biggest advantage, it lets users who can't donate online (the very young or very poor) simply create a new example or open-source-ify an old abandonware and voila! You've got yourself a whole bunch of new donators...
Dines, That puts it into a better perspective, for sure worth discussing, very interesting!
Adam, it is click not klik. And it always have been spinning in my head to change the name of the site but at this point it is not on the top of anyones list.
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