{"id":274,"date":"2011-08-09T19:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/?p=274"},"modified":"2012-03-27T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T21:12:21","slug":"kickstart-your-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/2011\/08\/kickstart-your-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstart your project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yass_top_edge_dummy\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px; padding: 0px; margin: -11px 0px 0px; border-width: 0px; display: block;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yass_top_edge\" style=\"background-image: url('chrome:\/\/yass\/content\/edgebgtop.png'); background-attachment: scroll; background-position: center bottom; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px -10px; border-width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; width: 1351px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">I&#8217;ve just come across Kickstarter &#8211; a site where you can pledge money to software development projects in return for incentives. \u00a0The more you pledge, the better the incentive. \u00a0It&#8217;s like pre-ordering, but your pledged money is taken immediately, which gives the developer funding to deliver on their promise at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I pledged on a linux game called <a title=\"In The Dark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/escapement\/in-the-dark-puzzles-past-bedtime\" target=\"_blank\">In The Dark.<\/a> \u00a0In my case, my lowly $20 pledge gets me a copy of the game when it comes out &#8211; pledge more and you&#8217;ll get t-shirts, mentions and more.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/escapement\/in-the-dark-puzzles-past-bedtime\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480px\" height=\"410px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>EDIT : Sadly, it failed to make its target $10K, so while this <a href=\"http:\/\/escapementstudios.com\/in-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">might still go ahead<\/a>, it won&#8217;t be getting its funding from Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"yass_bottom_edge\" style=\"background-image: url('chrome:\/\/yass\/content\/edgebgbot.png'); background-position: 0px 0px; position: absolute; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; height: 0px; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; display: block;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just come across Kickstarter &#8211; a site where you can pledge money to software development projects in return for incentives. \u00a0The more you pledge, the better the incentive. \u00a0It&#8217;s like pre-ordering, but your pledged money is taken immediately, which gives the developer funding to deliver on their promise at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[41,40,42],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","tag-development","tag-kickstarter","tag-linux"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}