• Appeal to the authority you give yourself based on *past experience (leave out any negative past experience) *religious/spiritual “insight” can be a substitute here

• Present an ambitious “vision” that claims to require said past experience to fully grasp

• Allow your targets to start building the product in their imagination based on the crumbs you gave them with step 2

• Sell disjointed tangential products that don’t interfere with the player’s dream logic and promise they will connect to your cohesive vision with time

• Find “technical delays”

• Express that you need backers to buy more of the dream to help get through the “technical delays”

• Repeat for 9 years until the market begins to retract

• Open the dream up to asian markets

• ???

• Profit

All it requires is being a soulless piece of shit.

so ducking annoying

You did a reverse EriKa KirK there. I think you meant “grift” not “gift”

100% selling hopes and dreams. I understand there’s a playable alpha, I was a backer for over a decade. There is no cohesive vision, just endless theory crafting and half baked implementations to maintain the illusion of progress, but every time they add something, they seemingly need to break something else for their 8 ticks-per-second system to be able to handle it…