Hello, everyone!

[caveman-joe.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd pop in and introduce myself.  I come bearing gifts!  Well, a gift anyway!

Here's an image I made for Improbable Island, to help encourage donations:



My theory is this: people like coin slots.  Especially pretty ones.  They want to put money in them.  I use mine as a PayPal link.  It's worked okay for me so far!

You can use this image in whatever manner you damn well please, no strings.  It's a present!  Do what you want with it.

So, hello!  Improbable Island is a text adventure game, played in your browser.  It's full of lovely, lovely people.  I've just launched Season Two, which added a bunch of new storylines, new equipment, new monsters, and a new visual theme.  I've been working on Season Two about nine months or so, and finally decided to quit the day job and have a proper go at crowdfunding this thing.

It's already partially crowdwritten - players can submit descriptions and stories for the various beasties that populate the jungle, and they get bonuses in return (I just couldn't quite get up to three hundred monsters on my own).  One thing I hope to achieve sometime soon is to teach the players how to code PHP, and open up an area in the game for their own modules.  The resource site, including tutorials and examples, should be ready to go by next week.

I think that's everything for now - I think us crowdfunded types should stick together and help each other out, so I'll just mention that I'm a web designer, graphic designer, okay-ish writer, and PHP programmer.

Hello!

-CMJ

Ye Olde Goldyn Appyl Presse radio

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

For those who don't know yet, I have a cyberfunded creativity project going called "Ye Olde Goldyn Appyl Presse." It is a fake newspaper with a Discordian flavor, as it takes place in a universe similar to ours, but much more interesting, bizarre, and magical. Anything can (and often does) happen there. YOGAP makes The Onion look boring and dull by comparison! You can click here for a couple free samples or click here to view the list of YOGAP features. But most of the action goes on in my LJ, where I pimp YOGAP features and post the funded projects.

In fact, I just completed a Ye Olde Goldyn Appyl Presse radio show! It consists of a welcome, a fake ad, a breaking news bit, and the ending. The whole thing is almost 4 minutes long. I hope to upload it to YouTube. But if you want to hear it, I'm asking for $4! That's just $4! Once I've gotten $4, everyone will be able to hear it whether they contributed to it or not. Every dollar helps!

It was a lot of work, but I'm only asking $4 for it because I hope to post it on YouTube and use it in part as advertisement for the whole YOGAP project. Once released, embedding will be ENCOURAGED.

CLICK HERE TO GET TO THE DONATE BUTTON

You know, I like this idea so much I might do other features of YOGAP in a radio version, like "Celebrity Interview" with Vick Shunnel. :-)