Paul Colls

what do you think of this crazy idea an all-volunteer COMMERCIAL game project: we all work for free, but intend to sell commercially at a high price ($30). split profits equally by num hours worked: my hours have same value as yours would ANYONE join this risky a venture???

This sounds like a potential nightmare. Who owns the IP? Who owns the assets, the codebase? What happens if an artist decides half-way through to leave? Can they take their work with them? The level of trust required to make this work means that this is essentially...

...just your regular, "hey, good friends of mine, fancy starting an indie games company?" rather than some sort of less formal experiment.

I'd like to do the formal experiment version. As in, get experienced verteran devs who don't need the project to pay their rent to work on it as a passion art thing: "retired super devs dream team style" not naive noob style (I'm an expert at that already)

My point is, that's still no different to any other indie games company - I don't really see what's experimental about it compared to any other indie dev studio beyond the profit-share (which is probably not unique either).