The Galactic Milieu from time to time surveys the free open source online multiplayer game landscape for games to test precisely because it does indeed seem to make a lot of sense to invest in working models. Basically we find free open source online multiplayer games that actually work, sometimes making a few minor fixes to get them working, and play-test them to figure out whether, and if so how, they can fit into the "metagame" that is the Galactic Milieu. -MarkM- I don't know what you are trying to do. Is this supposed to be a funding proposal? If yes, I think you need to create a thread and present it properly. For a standard type of mainstream game that would likely be the normal way to go. However the Galactic Milieu is an alternate reality game, thus a "rabbit hole" approach, in which potential players or even, as is sometimes the case, players who are not aware of actually being players due to not being aware of the fact that the planet they are on is actually part of such a game, can "stumble" upon so called "rabbit holes into the game" in possibly unexpected places and contexts. Another factor is that simple direct outside "investment" is not necessarily the best way to go, compared to involving players who engage and participate in the game's "self-funding" mechanisms. It would probably be much better for in-game characters, Corps, Civilisations and so on (in general, entities) to "invest" within the game than to expose the game to potentially whole vistas of "jurisdictional" complexities presented by the myriads of "jurisdictions" present on the planet known as Earth, staying as much as possible within the in-game context and jurisdictions... -MarkM-
The Galactic Milieu from time to time surveys the free open source online multiplayer game landscape for games to test precisely because it does indeed seem to make a lot of sense to invest in working models. Basically we find free open source online multiplayer games that actually work, sometimes making a few minor fixes to get them working, and play-test them to figure out whether, and if so how, they can fit into the "metagame" that is the Galactic Milieu. -MarkM- I don't know what you are trying to do. Is this supposed to be a funding proposal? If yes, I think you need to create a thread and present it properly. For a standard type of mainstream game that would likely be the normal way to go. However the Galactic Milieu is an alternate reality game, thus a "rabbit hole" approach, in which potential players or even, as is sometimes the case, players who are not aware of actually being players due to not being aware of the fact that the planet they are on is actually part of such a game, can "stumble" upon so called "rabbit holes into the game" in possibly unexpected places and contexts. Another factor is that simple direct outside "investment" is not necessarily the best way to go, compared to involving players who engage and participate in the game's "self-funding" mechanisms. It would probably be much better for in-game characters, Corps, Civilisations and so on (in general, entities) to "invest" within the game than to expose the game to potentially whole vistas of "jurisdictional" complexities presented by the myriads of "jurisdictions" present on the planet known as Earth, staying as much as possible within the in-game context and jurisdictions... -MarkM-

The Galactic Milieu from time to time surveys the free open source online multiplayer game landscape for games to test precisely because it does indeed seem to make a lot of sense to invest in working models. Basically we find free open source online multiplayer games that actually work, sometimes making a few minor fixes to get them working, and play-test them to figure out whether, and if so how, they can fit into the "metagame" that is the Galactic Milieu. -MarkM- I don't know what you are trying to do. Is this supposed to be a funding proposal? If yes, I think you need to create a thread and present it properly. For a standard type of mainstream game that would likely be the normal way to go. However the Galactic Milieu is an alternate reality game, thus a "rabbit hole" approach, in which potential players or even, as is sometimes the case, players who are not aware of actually being players due to not being aware of the fact that the planet they are on is actually part of such a game, can "stumble" upon so called "rabbit holes into the game" in possibly unexpected places and contexts. Another factor is that simple direct outside "investment" is not necessarily the best way to go, compared to involving players who engage and participate in the game's "self-funding" mechanisms. It would probably be much better for in-game characters, Corps, Civilisations and so on (in general, entities) to "invest" within the game than to expose the game to potentially whole vistas of "jurisdictional" complexities presented by the myriads of "jurisdictions" present on the planet known as Earth, staying as much as possible within the in-game context and jurisdictions... -MarkM-

The Galactic Milieu from time to time surveys the free open source online multiplayer game landscape for games to test precisely because it does indeed seem to make a lot of sense to invest in working models. Basically we find free open source online multiplayer games that actually work, sometimes making a few minor fixes to get them working, and play-test them to figure out whether, and if so how, they can fit into the "metagame" that is the Galactic Milieu. -MarkM- I don't know what you are trying to do. Is this supposed to be a funding proposal? If yes, I think you need to create a thread and present it properly. For a standard type of mainstream game that would likely be the normal way to go. However the Galactic Milieu is an alternate reality game, thus a "rabbit hole" approach, in which potential players or even, as is sometimes the case, players who are not aware of actually being players due to not being aware of the fact that the planet they are on is actually part of such a game, can "stumble" upon so called "rabbit holes into the game" in possibly unexpected places and contexts. Another factor is that simple direct outside "investment" is not necessarily the best way to go, compared to involving players who engage and participate in the game's "self-funding" mechanisms. It would probably be much better for in-game characters, Corps, Civilisations and so on (in general, entities) to "invest" within the game than to expose the game to potentially whole vistas of "jurisdictional" complexities presented by the myriads of "jurisdictions" present on the planet known as Earth, staying as much as possible within the in-game context and jurisdictions... -MarkM-