Owen K. C. Stephens said:
We are finalizing our budget, and once we have that we can set up to take pledges. This is likely to be a two-step process, because taking people's money isn't free and we will give back everyone's money if the project doesn't meet the required funding level. We want to make sure people are really interested enough to do this before any money changes hands, since it'll cost us to receive it and then send it back if we don't get the support needed.
The current plan is to set up a dedicated email address and related web page. We will asks those interested to send us an email pledging a specific amount of money, for this project, as outlined by our design guidelines. The web page will tell people what our final funding level needs to be, and how close to it we are. If pledges hit that goal in 30 days, we'll set about actually allowing people to send us the money they have pledged.
We have a 30 day time frame from the time of the first pledges to hit our required pledge level to ensure no one is left in limbo. Budgets are tight, and there's a lot of cool game stuff out there. (And even other cool patron projects.) We don't want anyone to have money they are saving for our project to be stuck sitting on it too long. If we make our pledge level, we can actually take everyone's money and get started. If we don't, we want everyone to be free to spend their money elsewhere in a timely manner.
We hope to have the final budget, email address for pledges and web page to track how close we are soon. We'll post those details here once we do.
