TubeTube tycoon (indiegogo fundraiser Thread

Welcome to our fundraiser !Hello, first of all we want to thank you for reading about our project, have fun reading !What is TubeTube tycoon about?TubeTube tycoon is a game about owning a YouTube channel and everything that is involved with that. In the game you would need to take care of marketing, promotion, earning money, getting good rates from channel reviewers, fan interaction and gaining fans.Who is making the game?The game is being programmed by Noah Evans(Canadian), and experienced programmer that is working with several scripiting and programming tools, for this game he choosed to use GameMaker studio. Our artist is Jacob Fridholm (Swedish), he is an experienced artist that is able to work with a lot of tools, for this project he choosed for Photoshop, because the game needed simple 2D HD art.Me, Aswin Vos (Dutch), I`m the lead of the project, and I`m doing the marketing, promotion. I have done some voluntering 2D pixel art projects in the past and always wanted to start a own project, and when this Idea came up in my mind i felt like I needed to make it happenThe core features-Gaining fans: this can be done by releasing good videos that match genre and topic and receive good scores from the reviewers-Earning money: Money can be earnd by putting ads in your videos (fans will dislike this !) or by using brand names, also you will get like 0,01 for every view.-Selling merchandise: Once your channel has more then 100.000 fans you will be able to sell merchandise, from pens to trousers, and from coffee mugs to teddy bears, how well this sells depends on the age of your fans (we have an unique system for that !) and at the prices-Making videos: in the game it would be able to make an actual video by using pre-set items, or by uploading your own content. Every item is categorised under a genre and a topic. You will need to make those match to get good results, and still make it a fun video. Every item has its own ratings-Upgrading and buying new equipment: its important to buy new equipment or/and upgrade it, you will need to do this because you can higher your quality of your video for it-Time management: at the start of the game you still have a job besides the channel that costs 8 hours a day (you can bail this once you make enough money (2k montly)), and sleeping costs 8 hours a day, so you have 8 hours of free time to work on it every day. Every thing you do when making the game costs time, so sometimes you would need to work multiple days on a video to make it good quality and be able to release it

The game will be DRM free, since we want everyone to be able to play it anywhere, even without an internet connection !The game has a basic story when you start a new game, but its up to you if you want to do the same steps as the games wants, we want that you are able to actually play the game the way you want !
What makes TubeTube Tycoon different from similair games?Games like Tubetube tycoon have be done, thats a fact. But we are planning to make it different from those games, we want to deliver the same feeling, but with more features, more systems and better art. One of the things that makes our game different is our unique gaining and losing fan system, in other games this was done very basicly: youw ill gain fans for every video, and will only lose them if you haven`t uploaded any in a long time. in our game you will need to manage a lot of other aspects besides of this: like the users age, the props used, the quality of the video, game reviewers and much more !Also our age system is unique, where the other games didn t care about this, there we felt like this can be a big deal, every year at January 1st your fans will age with a year. every life periode has its own class, like kids 0-12, teens 12-16, pre-mature 16-18, mature 18-65, and elder 65-100so If you have a lot of fans in the period: mature, and they move to eldern then you will need to take care to get new mature fanswhere other games actually used real videos from youtube, there we let you create your own, so you have direct influence on the quality, genre and topic and can make sure its a unique video.This sounds ambitious...but isn`t it overly ambitious?Since we have an experienced team, and already a working prototype im sure this can be all implented and be actual gameplay. we are already working at this game for the last 3 months and a lot of this is already in the game !What will be the consoles where the game will be available on?We are willing to release the game at Windows and MAC at first release, this is because developing for other consoles (like android and IOS) costs time and money, and we are short on both. since the PC market is the largest part of the gaming industry we decided to first release it here, and in futher release it on phones in an editted way.
Why do we need your help?We need your help because making a game isn`t free, and there are costs to be payed. We need some extra modules to make a futher edited port for android and IOS and to get money to get our game on steam greenlightIndiegogo.com