Quote from: nubbins on Today at 03:19:55 PM
Quote from: greyhawk on Today at 03:19:05 PM
Dude the fuck's wrong with the nubbin. Fiddy seconds, seriously?
Ritalin. Urgently. Lots of it.
Here. Let me do another.
Does that thing look particularly phallic or is it me?
Yes I saw this. My counter point is that this opportunity may not be worth as much as you think it is. You know how many game startups pop up all the time? All asking for spec work, with a promise of additional work? Every single one of these claim that they are an amazing opportunity
S.MG is sitting on
8`799.0657479 BTCi after its succesfull IPO last week.
For that matter, the "community", such as it is, consists principally of people who would love nothing more and spend their time doing nothing else than upmanshipping MP. If indeed you contribute usable artwork and nothing comes of it because the project goes to shit you'll be the only guy in this position in the history of Bitcoin. This is what Taaki, Maxwell, the entire host of "finance" wanna-bes and literally everyone else has been trying to do, since forever. This is why CoinSetter is currently buying tweets, this is what CoinLab was trying to achieve paying off some of the press, that's what Pietila was trying with his rushed conference, that's what the London folk were trying with their second "First Bitcoin Conference", that's the long and the short of it: everyone hopes, strives and dreams of the situation where they could say "Ha, I'm bigger than MP". That blessed situation where you did your end and MP came short, to go with the billion times the opposite occured.
So, your dilemma is this: either you get paid and the game works or else you'd have succeeded at the one thing everyone really seeks, and that'd make you a sort of Satoshi-2. It'd be worth more than your wallet, you can probably support yourself consulting for the rest of your life.
What makes your project different from all the other failures? Why should I spend the time doing artwork for you, and not all the startups on every game development forum there is?
S.MG is sitting on
8`799.0657479 BTCi after its succesfull IPO last week.
And you arent offering a good possible payout, other projects can offer more than $150.
By all means, go do that then.
By this reasoning "no coder worth the money is ever going to make an extremely detailed project on the hopes of winning". Except they do. That's what the better coders do, and whenever some coder wants to be hired on a salary the first point in anyone's mind is "so he doesn't think he's good enough to start-up".
Really, it's 2013, time to split the artists from the wanna-bes.
Understand, I don't care what you are. Ideally you care what you are, but if you don't that's also fine, don't expect me to parent you. I'm not your mommy, and you can't blackmail me with "I'll fuck up my future because this pays $150 now".
Well, the fact that you have 9k bitcoins allocated for it actually makes it different. Thats Good. You have the chance of actually funding it.
Chance? No chance. Why chance?
So in that case, it looks like this might actually be a good opportunity.
Yeah, I've been sayin'....
however, already it looks like you are terrible at funding it. You are only allocating about 1BTC to find an artist that is supposedly going to do alot of work on the art of your game. It may have a huge influence on the artstyle as you are planning to use it as a slash screen. Is the art of your game only worth 1BTC to find a good artist?
No. The "artist's" airs are worth nothing at all, so MP is offering something symbolic, a token if you wish. To be perfectly clear, in case any doubt lingers: until and unless you've submitted art
you are not an artist. Irrespective of what you might have heard, from parents/girlfriend/that guy you're paying for the purpose, you are not an artist until and unless you deliver.
You are only shortchanging yourself. Offer a pot of 3-7btc, get actual quality submissions.
Hell you paid 10btc when they worth more for people to photochop a rape scene and look at the crap you got.
Apparently your reading is VERY selective. That's not how reading works. And since I'm doing this retarded "let me pick up the bits you've neglected because they don't serve the idiocy you wish to proceed from",
On the other side of the planet, you can't insulate yourself from risks. Being part of a start-up is being part of a start-up, you can't play 9 to 5 office on one end and then cash in like an entrepreneur on the other end. You don't get the benefit of signing your name on tomorrow's megafranchise without putting a lot of your work at risk. Joanne Rowling pitched her book to almost one hundred publishers over years before being accepted, on a very tight contract. You're more than welcome to wait for someone to pay you a generous salary a year in advance and then make you famous, but if you hold your breath for it you'll die. And if you don't hold your breath for it you'll get sick of Ramen sooner or later.
I prefer to make things tailored specifically to the project at hand., that way they can license it for whatever they want fully
You're not that cool yet. In order for you to be that cool
you have to first be an artist. You're not an artist, not yet. Are you gonna be one or are you gonna just go the way of that other failure (ie, moltenmich)?
Pick one already.
I know of very few artists of the type this contest is asking for who accept Bitcoin. Makes me wonder if this'll convert a reputable artist into using Bitcoin, or if the few artists here will actually get chosen.
Once we've established the artist part, I'm sure payment can be arranged in a satisfactory manner. That an artist who doesn't normally take BTC will receive a 1.337 token on top of that to keep in his wallet seems to have little bearing.
Besides the artists I listed, the only one left I'm aware of who is suited to take on a job like this is myself, but if that's going to be the case, I'd feel better being contacted personally.
That's fine and dandy, but if both you and management feel better being contacted personally and simply wait for the other party to do so nothing's gonna happen.
