{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/fate\/","author_name":"Enneract","cat":"LD - Misc","categories":["LD - Misc"],"comments":[],"epoch":1390286820,"event":"","likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"81708","p_author":"Enneract","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"290825","p_title":"A Gaming Company for Charity","p_cat":"LD - Misc","p_event":"LD28","p_time":"1390286820","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1386892800","event_key":"20","event_name":"LD28"},"source_url":"2014\/01\/21\/a-gaming-company-for-charity\/","text":"<p>In Ludum Dare 28 I had a go at something new and made a game solely for Android: Extreme Curling (which you can find here: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-28\/?action=preview&amp;uid=11083 as a note the play store no longer works, I\u2019ve taken it down for a while while I\u2019m working on it)\u00a0. The game was okish but I felt it had potential as mobile game, it generated a reasonable number of installs, installs per day actually started increasing post Ludum Dare judging period.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve decided to just go for it and rather than find another job after my current contract ends, I\u2019m going to take a shot at starting a game development company. It\u2019s always been a dream of mine of a game development company that is established to support charities. So that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing, creating a company called withFire which donates a portion of profits to community chosen charities. And the first game? You guessed it Extreme Curling (well a far more polished version with a lot more features).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just started an Indiegogo Campaign to raise funds for this, so If you like to find out more about withFire you can read here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/withfire-games-for-charity<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in this and want to help out then sharing it around wouldn\u2019t hurt. <img alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Finally I just want to say thanks to Ludum Dare and the community for getting me more involved in game making and all the feed-back <img alt=\":D\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_biggrin.gif\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/logo_11111.jpg\"><img alt=\"logo_11111\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-329686\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/logo_11111-300x270.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 2px;background: #fff;\"><div class=\"iLikeThis\" id=\"iLikeThis-329682\"><span class=\"counter\"><a class=\"image\" onclick=\"likeThis(329682);\">5<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"postmetadata alt\">\n<small>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis entry was posted\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 at 6:47 am\t\t\t\t\t\tand is filed under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/category\/ld-misc\/\" rel=\"category tag\" title=\"View all posts in LD - Misc\">LD - Misc<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/01\/21\/a-gaming-company-for-charity\/feed\/\">RSS 2.0<\/a> feed.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can <a href=\"#respond\">leave a response<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/01\/21\/a-gaming-company-for-charity\/trackback\/\" rel=\"trackback\">trackback<\/a> from your own site.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/small>\n<\/p>","time":"January 21st, 2014 6:47 am","title":"A Gaming Company for Charity","title_was_empty":false}