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When a mod says stop, it's best to stop.

Change of subject. What's the rationale behind creating your own scripting language rather than roping in one already made Stealth?

Stay confused I guess? The grievances have been pretty clearly aired out.

Also, for what it's worth, I did read the Patreon page.

All I'm saying is that taking donations (ostensibly so that you can have more free time) isn't as cut and dry as many seem to think it is. If it were, a lot more people would be doing it without reservations. I don't care about what people want to spend their money on.

As far as I can tell, Hez isn't complaining per se. He's wondering how donating grants more spare time. At least, that's the way I see it. I have a day job and a productive hobby and, unless donations are granting me a steady income I can live off of, they're not giving me any more time to work on my hobby. Incentive, sure, but not time. Not exactly.

All I'm saying is that it's not as cut and dry as a lot of you seem to think it is. These waters are murky. Taking donation money for fan work is diving into murky waters. That's why a lot of people that do create fan works outright refuse all donations and do not make the process easily available. Some only take money for a specific work (like art commissions). And even then I think the legality of that is still muddled with shades of grey.

We can all agree that one should be able to be rewarded for their efforts but when it comes to fangames and things like that I don't think it's so simple to say "that reward should be money". You have to tread carefully with this type of thing, and I think maybe setting up a Patreon is a little heavy-footed.

I hope we get a good game out of this. He said he needed $10mil to fulfill his vision, and he's getting just over half that.