Donations for Zero-K

I looked at the Patreon thing, but I guess they're doing a lot of financial censorship or something.

Any way I can just directly send some BTC? I think I have some lying around if you think that'd be useful.

Thanks a lot Bellum! :-)

Licho, there's a kind of discrepancy between this page and the donation listed here:

https://zero-k.info/Contributions

Moreover, the cost for 2020 and 2021 is lacking and the "pledged" amount is bigger than the "needed" amount. Maybe some part of Server donation could be switched to "support ZK" ?

Regards to deciding what to use spare funds for, would it be worth hiring freelance developers to help with the backlog of tasks? I've kind of stopped actively suggesting things, as the response is always the same (not enough mana), which is no ones fault and I don't blame anyone for, but maybe this would be a way to progress ZK faster?

I'm out of my area of expertise with programming and such so would have to defer to others on how possible this would be to implement.

quote: Forever A new engine will be the most important IMO. Make a Patreon where we can monthly donate? I will clearly spend some cash if the game is going in the right direction.

GoogleFrog has a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/googlefrog

I doubt any surplus here is enough to make a dent on ZK dev. Given the highly specialist nature of working with Spring and the existing codebase, GoogleFrog, the engine devs and other contributors are worth (probably a lot) over $100 per hour. A few days of work isn't going to achieve anything.

The website on the other hand is more feasible. Perhaps there's a way to pay someone in the community to work on it as a summer project? I know there's at least one project floating around to redo things, but I haven't heard anything about it for a while; it just needs a lot of time investment to do things like this.

quote: A new engine will be the most important IMO.

Trying to switch to a different engine is a surefire way to kill a project such as this.
If significant engine "resources" suddenly develops then it's better to fork the current engine and modify it the way that ZK wants it.

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