I hope to have the Community College Villain trilogy completed by 2021 so that gives me a four-year window to cram in one more trilogy before I get to work with you. Sweet.
I’m putting it on my Outlook.
EDIT: And I’m flexible on the title, if that sweetens the deal!
You’ve probably mentioned it before, but since I’ve been away for awhile, this is the first I’ve heard of a Villains’ edition of CCH. I am so excite I cannot grammar. 
Oh goodness yes. I wanted this to happen since that little movie spoof in the game.
I want the opposite version of D.G: Squeaky Clean Girl.
So what? She’s a good girl who does her course work and is diligent in her evil studies?
Exactly! (20 chars)…
Haha this all made me laugh so I liked everyone down the chain. I’ve been quiet on the forums lately trying to get other things done but damnit my job is taking more and more of my time.
I have 5 years of stories in my head (and partially written out) and not enough time.
And I would love to write a villains story…not truly evil people…just really sketchy ones.
EDIT: Oh and @Sashira, it is awesome to see you.
How is it someone can’t afford to spend $3 on a book? I mean, it’s $3 dollars. My lunch usually costs more than that. Less than 1st World Countries pay as the lowest wage in an hour.
I’m disabled. There have been times when I could afford either heating, or food, but not both. $3 might just be lunch for you, but for me there’s been times when I couldn’t afford that. Or where spending that $3 on a game, was my entertainment budget for the month.
I think we can’t know others finances. For some people, it is an awful lot of money. For others, it’s just the price of a coffee.
That’s fairly extreme.
I’ve got friends too who’re struggling to just get by, where again, that $3 is just unthinkable money, and is far more likely to go towards paying for medication, than it is to go to paying for a game.
And yes, it is extreme. But, we can’t know others finances.
I’m not saying that people should expect games for free though. The other side of the coin, is that Choice of Games is a free language, one that’s easily accessible, very easy to learn, and doesn’t require fancy equipment of any sort. Anyone can make a game, and Choice of Games will publish it for you, they’ll help you sell it. I think that’s wonderful.
For people who visit the forums, most games can be free. WIPs of Hosted Games are usually free during development. Most (if not all) official games have closed beta requests for feedback. It is easy to gain access to those if you agree to provide feedback.
When I do have spare cash, I often wish I could throw more the way of my favorite creators. Optional game add-ons are good, but since they’re strictly functional, they’re connected less to how much I can afford them and more to how much I need them. Zach Sergei deserves the dollar, but I hesitate to give it to him by getting a device that makes the game too easy for me.
I saw that @Eric_Moser is trying out t-shirt designs for CCH. I would absolutely buy a coffee mug or a tank top for my favorite games, which would help balance out the content we inevitably end up giving away.
Yep @JimD (who has a lot of titles) is right about free content. Geez I don’t think it’s even possible for a person to read every WiP available on the site nowadays. Now sure, some of them might fizzle out, but some will make it. I’ve decided to keep CCH Part 2 testing private for now just because it’s overwhelming to get feedback from hundreds of people and I really want to limit my pool to folks who have already read Part 1 and preferably have a track record of contributing instead of “mooching” (reading without providing constructive feedback).
And @Sashira, I’m hoping to sell my remaining t-shirts at a comic convention in June. Selling the app itself obviously isn’t going to be very economically beneficial considering I’m making $.70 per sale, but I’m hoping to engage some folks in conversation, hopefully convert some folks into buyers for Part 2 (and beyond), and maybe sell some swag (t-shirts and some prints signed by the artist).
I’m sorry to hear that, decent heating ought to be a basic human right in these times, especially in the foggy clammy north of the (still)United Kingdom.
Though it’s no better here in our so-called “welfare state” I’m afraid. It’s striking that our “new left” advocates those very social rights for all the immigrants (and some minorities), freely translated the right to bed, bath and bread is their motto now and that is after our conservatives and liberals gutted the basic income and free (university) education out of it. Of course, had their whole package passed unchallenged none of it would have applied to the native population where the magic word, “austerity”, is fully and whole-heartedly endorsed by our pusillanimous “new left”.
Sorry for my politics rant there btw, but boy does it feel good to let the underbelly out sometimes.
Because, like @FairyGodfeather has already said disabled people get less in benefits than the minimum wage (welfare is actually 60-70% of the minimum wage here in the Netherlands). Technically capping welfare (significantly) lower than the minimum wage is supposed to encourage labour market participation though in reality it just penalizes those people who are unable to work (under market conditions and standards for “efficiency”) in order to get a handful of benefit “cheats”.
And even if you do earn that lowest wage it’s often not a living wage, especially if you’re single, compounded in our expensive European cities by the nearly unaffordable housing, even if you earn (much) more than the minimum wage.
And most disabilities involve expenses that are “unseen” to average people and the government indexes.