As you’ll no doubt of noticed we’ve had a bit of a spring clean of our website and are now sporting a new design care of Spine our art lead. The original site design was something we put together quickly when we first launched Ham and Jam but after a year it was really starting to look a bit shabby. We’ve tidied a lot of things up too so hopefully using the site will be a bit easier and for us, keeping it up-to-date will be a pleasure rather than a chore.
We need your support!
This month we’d like to draw your attention to the nifty “donate” button lurking over there in the sidebar. As we briefly mentioned in the last news update we’re trying to raise money to help cover some of the expenses that Ham and Jam has incurred.
Up until now our expenses have either been covered by sponsors or from members of the development team digging into their own pockets. Luckily it’s only been small amounts so far which has meant sacrificing beer money on the odd occasion. However, we’re having to dig into our pockets more often than is financially viable and the kindness of our sponsors only goes so far.
One area that is critical is to maintain and pay for the teams SVN server which has been the central pivot to our development process. Our current SVN server was provided free for a year by a sponsor but very soon that deal will end and we will have to cover the cost of the server ourselves.
This is where we need your help. We need to raise £200 by the end of June to secure our SVN services for another 12 months. Without it development on Ham and Jam could grind to a complete halt!
At the moment we have a fairly basic SVN set-up but with £200 we will be able to expand our source repository and allow more of our development team access to it. It will also enable us give access to beta testers so that they always have access to the latest updates - something we sorely need for our upcoming regular playtests.
We don’t expect to raise the entire £200 from donations alone and the dev team will add what we can to the fun as we’re able. So if you’ve got a few pounds, euros or dollars sat in a paypal account doing nothing, we could really put it to good use!
If you’d like to donate but don’t have a the ability to use Paypal, let us know and we’ll discuss other ways you can get your donation to us.
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