Kickstarter

FAQ

• Why do you need money?

  There's a lot of reasons. I intend to use most of this money to help fund distribution processes for the game at a later date. In order to make sure just people buying the game can get access ill need a website and various security features i have no idea about at the moment. That hardly costs much at all, at a year's subscription i can probably manage all that for less than a hundred, though realistically probably much more. Another sum of money might go towards a decent android device. That might not sound like a good investment, but realize that android development is kind of a stank-hole. The sdk includes an emulator but its a little half-assed and dreadfully inefficient. I have a super cheap tablet but it can barely run 2d games, let alone 3d heavy content. Interval doesnt look graphics heavy, but remember  this a phone/tablet were taking about. Id at least need a 200-300$ quality one to run it. that's still nowhere close to 3.2k right? And i intend to only use the smallest portion as a regular profit. Honestly at least 2/3 the fund is a mix of motivation and publicity. Knowing a game could be successful enough to make that much would be glorious, and maybe compensate for the one and half years spent developing it thus far. The publicity might help draw in other developers or musicians that i could feel would contribute enough to the project that id be willing to give up my 'sole developer' badge. Besides i can still argue that most of the game was made by me so far anyway, or at least the game engine, since levels aren't quite done. Oh dear i'm on a tangent.

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• Why was that last answer so long?

  I have a lot going on in my head, and little time to say all i need/want, so i tend to ramble, sorry.

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• When will the game actually have some meat on its bones, mainly levels, a campaign, or plot?

  I'm getting there, everytime i start working on that i get sidetracked when i notice that this certain concept i want for the story cant really be implemented yet, so i end up adding more features to the game engine that allow for this content and then dont get around to putting said actual content in yet. You have to realize im making this all from scratch here, and theres some extremely complex systems im utilizing. So even simple things like pressing a button or killing an enemy get extremely complicated when you take time-travel into account. I need a mix of dynamic and scheduled AI to compensate for new logic while acting out previously determined actions at past travel, and then a prediction system for assuming where and what the ai will have done in a hundred years should the player decide to skip ahead in time. It's an awful mess of math science and raw dangerous logic. I have finally composed a background story and area of conflict though!

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• Why would you start developing a game without having any idea about plot or conflict in mind?

  Honestly i was going more for sandbox initially. And it still will be pretty open-ended once it's finished. But just like all my game projects ive always started with a game concept, and thought what would be fun to be able to do, and just thought id worry about plot later. It worked for minecraft, worked for wurm, worked for almost every deathmatch game existance. Well okay some did have subtle plots, but how often did they even matter? the point was you were in control of things you could take the world into your hands and just do whatever the hell you could think of. Plot sometimes just slowed a game down when it wasn't even necessary. But i would like some logic and premise to why on earth you'd travel around in time, aside from it'd be freaking awesome that is.  So that's coming, don't worry.

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• When are you adding a video anyway?

  I keep putting that off because of circumstances and partially embarrassment. Something about playing a game filled with glitches seems not as bad as watching a game filled with glitches. Playing you can still appreciate the feel of the controls and dynamic nature. But watching it seems like it takes away from a truley dynamic game as its now mostly a recording, Normally that wouldnt bother me but Interval is VERY glitchy right now, so everytime i get some footage i notice this blaring glitch that i feel i HAVE to fix before recording that again. But I understand this is getting silly and i will try to swallow my pride and make that video. It will probably be pretty short understandably. Also im not looking forward to displaying my nerdy nasally voice all over the internet, ick!

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• When will Interval be completed?

  Id like to take on the usual game dev's ideal of 'when it's finished' but i realize backers would definitely need a better deadline than that. I've been shooting for February, Mainly that it'll be mostly complete or in a state that's largely playable to some extent. On the assumption i remain the sole developer throughout i probably wont feel its entirely complete until its at least several hours of gameplay and i stop being a perfectionist for long enough. So maybe another year ?  or 6 months?... or two years? im hoping two years tops. To put it bluntly, i really have no idea.

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• Can i help you with development?

  It really depends. I've adopted my gamedevelopment as a sort of personal hobby i hope might be lucrative some day. Since i've already spent so much time working on it it seems disappointing to me to have to add credit to someone if they've only ended up contributing a few weeks worth of work. Plus im not expecting to make a lot of money on this and id like at least a little, so sharing the profit seems tricky, especially when there isn't really a profit to even be shared yet. 

  Let me put it this way, if i look at your stuff and i really feel like you'd be a huge help or you can do something i, honest to god for the love of me, can't figure out how to do myself, sure ill take your help. If you want to help with something major and don't want any royalities.. well im not sure id like that either, id feel guilty unless it was a really minor tip. Now if you just want some experience in game development and the love of learning, i could probably help you out with it too, but that would also be nonprofit so you couldn't contribute anything major, unless i decide to put you on the profit margin.

  Basically i just don't want any hurt feelings, injustice, or, let's face it, lawsuits. I know as much about law as a box turtle knows about highways, so please don't run over me :( .

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• I have an important question that your kickstarter or FAQ doesnt answer! help!

  email me, or leave a comment, or something, hopefully that's common sense. As of writing this i'm starved of internet for at least a few more days, so sorry if i don't get back to you right away!

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