RandomExile's Forum Posts

  • Tom,

    We had a thread about it at the end of last week, noticing that in at least one case, high scores aren't posting on Manley23's Pick to Win game. I'm a little reluctant to check the arcade from where I am right now, but last I checked my score (and presumably others') haven't posted, although there are existing high scores for the game.

    I'll send an e-mail to your Scirra address as well.

    Thanks!

  • gillenew,

    Your screenshot is making me hungry. And disturbed. It looks like tiki jello shots, frosted gingerbread, some sort of glaze crusted with chocolate, ice cream on peppermint columns ... and a live shrimp.

  • The ... upgrade hack.

    U f34r.

  • Thanks, Yann and Kyatric! These videos are a really easy way for me to home school myself on C2. You guys rock.

  • psycholize,

    Very cool--it would be interesting to see how many Scirra members from around the world are actively following Kickstarters from their home countries.

    I see at least four KS projects based out of Brazil are active right now! =)

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  • As promised, it's live in the tutorials! Thanks for all the PMs and discussion!

    The Top 5 Secrets of Highly Funded Kickstarters

  • the_chosen_byte, I love that concept, and it seems to run pretty smoothly. Neat take on a platform runner.

  • It was most certainly intended as a compliment, and it's amusing we have the same Myer's-Briggs personality type.

  • ashesh, if you flip over, you can keep driving on the roof =P

  • Actually, rather than discussing one, existing tutorial, I was thinking about conversations encompassing multiple tutorials, or discussing authors we like, or taking suggestions for tutorials people want to see (there's a thread like that in the old Construct Classic forum), or discussing tutorials under development (like this!).

    As we can see, there's not really an "ideal" place to do that, at present.

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  • Is the How Do I...? forum right for this discussion? It looks like virtually all the posts in here have to do with technical questions about using Construct 2 itself.

  • Kyatric,

    With respect, I don't think that's appropriate. That's where the tutorials themselves go, but it's not a forum for discussing tutorials and related concepts. You wouldn't create a tutorial to have a conversation about tutorials you like, or authors, or the etiquette of editing others' tutorials, etc. You would do that in a forum, like this.

  • BTW, LobsterSundew, I think it's cool you do your Lobster's List, and I see you've contributed videos to help out at least one of the projects you backed. I've contributed to about, oh, 2% of the projects you have, but they were all very important to me =P, and one of them was by a friend.

    You're what Malcom Gladwell calls a "maven," someone who's an information specialist who "accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others."

  • I agree with alspal that Construct 2 General is not the best place for this thread.

    Hopefully we can get a KS and/or tutorial forum!

    As you point out, there are dozens of technical details with regard to running a KS campaign (you could just as easily have described all the steps to setting up an independent website to use for reward management, integrated shopping, web-public project updates, long-term sustainment of your backers as an opt-in mailing list, a place to handle Paypal during and after the campaign, etc.!), and while I think most people know how to open a bank account, you have both the knowledge and the inclination to share your expertise with others, and I hope now that you're in between semesters, you take the time to do so!

    =P I wouldn't say that you "missed" anything, since you were primarily just establishing your bona fides by listing some of the steps/considerations a KS project manager will have to deal with as a brief example, and discussing the scope of your KS experience (very cool!), but when you mentioned that Kickstarter will provide a 1099-K, you've touched on a much larger and murkier issue: local tax regulations!

    Amazon Payments, for example, will definitely send a 1099-K not just to you but also to the IRS, reporting your income, so the burden after that falls on the project creator to handle all local tax laws. As has been discussed on Forbes/ Kickstarter's Sting in the Tail: Tax, The Daily Dot/ The Hidden Cost of Kickstarter Success, and even individual tax firms' websites, you have to account for Federal and State taxes, the applicability of sales tax and the implication of shipping to states in which items were manufactured, you could well wind up owing self-employment taxes, and in the U.K., HMRC is going to view your rewards as pre-sales subject to VAT.

    It's a mess, and the best advice is to hire a CPA or other tax expert to advise you on the particulars of your campaign. In many cases, consultation will be free and you will only be charged if you take advantage of their actual tax preparation services.