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It's a service catered specifically for game creators, and it plans to differentiate itself by offering equity-based crowdfunding in addition to Kickstarter's donation-based model.
The equity-based funding model allows interested parties to buy a stake in a project of their choosing, and if all goes well, they'll take a cut of its eventual profits. Until the American JOBS Act is enacted by the SEC, however, this functionality is only available in Europe, but the Gambitious team thinks it'll provide a great solution for lesser-known developers or those with large-scale projects.
After all, no one's going to be enticed with equity in a 3,000 copy print run of a board game – or will they?The equity-based funding model allows interested parties to buy a stake in a project of their choosing, and if all goes well, they'll take a cut of its eventual profits. Until the American JOBS Act is enacted by the SEC, however, this functionality is only available in Europe, but the Gambitious team thinks it'll provide a great solution for lesser-known developers or those with large-scale projects.
• And speaking of Alderac, 2d6.org recently interviewed AEG's Todd Rowland, Edward Bolme, and Jeff Quick about upcoming releases and the company's outlook for the future.
• Designers Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim have blogged about four games they anticipate receiving contracts for in the near future, a possible German-language version of Belfort, a Belfort expansion, and more. Geez, guys, leave some room on the game store shelves for others, will ya?
• On his GamerChris blog, Chris Norwood writes about "Games that my iPod Ruined!", those games being Roll Through the Ages, Ascension, and Elder Sign – not that they were all ruined for the same reason, mind you.
• Following the appearance of modern games in math homework, I present Games in Unusual Places II: the presence of Wasabi on an episode of the BBC series Grandma's House, starting at the 4:00 mark and featuring a male stripper, stolen champagne, and a lack of crying:
(HT: Josh Cappel)
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