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When I first heard of a crowd-funded game, I assumed it would be open source and was surprised to find it wasn't. Glad to see it's starting to happen and hope they meet their target. I'll definitely be throwing a few dollars their way!

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I assume your first sentence isn't referring to 0AD, since it is open source: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers

It didn't use to be when they first started.

It's a "Flexible funding" campaign, so they'll get the money even if they don't reach their goal. Any amount helps!

This actually makes me less willing to contribute. The worst outcome here is that they hit 15% of their funding goal and get stuck there, which means that there's enough money to do some work and to raise expectations of results from the funders, but not enough to produce a commercial (or near-commercial) quality game at the end of it.

With a Kickstarter all-or-nothing approach I can be quite generous (I'd probably go for the $100+ option here), safe in the knowledge that if nobody else offers any funding then I won't be the only one chipping in.

They already have a pretty good working game (http://play0ad.com/); this is "just" improvements.

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