{"id":30044,"date":"2018-07-03T02:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T02:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefromscratch.com\/post.aspx?id=b16b4a14-524f-4431-a96f-4bd55d369ac1"},"modified":"2018-07-03T02:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T02:21:52","slug":"armory-game-engine-patreon-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/03\/armory-game-engine-patreon-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Armory Game Engine Patreon Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now if you go to the Armory game engine Patreon page you are great with:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/image.axd?picture=image_3391.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1075\" height=\"124\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/armory-game-engine-patreon-problems.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This engine was recently open sourced because it hit the Patreon goal of $1,600 a month.\u00a0 Development seemed to be proceeding nicely and everything was going swimmingly well, until this happened.\u00a0 Not only is this message displayed, it seems Patreons are being refunded, potentially every single contribution going back to day one.\u00a0 The following appeared on the Armory forums:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/image.axd?picture=image_3392.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"304\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/armory-game-engine-patreon-problems-1.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several other \u201cme too\u201d type comments <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.armory3d.org\/t\/patreon-is-down-whats-up-with-that\/1384\">in this thread<\/a>.\u00a0 There are no further details from Armory, Lubos the lead developer, nor Patreon.\u00a0 I will update here if such an update occurs.\u00a0 Hopefully the Armory engine is ok, I\u2019m pretty excited by it.\u00a0 In fact, I\u2019ve done a <a href=\"https:\/\/devga.me\/tutorials\/armory3d\/\">full tutorial series<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT \u2013 UPDATE, Lubos, the project creator just made the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luboslenco\/status\/1014019034684248066\">following tweet<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/image.axd?picture=image_3393.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"275\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/armory-game-engine-patreon-problems-2.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p class=\"under\">&#013; <span class=\"categories\"><a class=\"catLinks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/category\/GameDev-News.aspx\">GameDev News<\/a><\/span>&#013; <span class=\"tags\"><a class=\"tagLinks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamefromscratch.com\/?tag=\/Armory\" rel=\"tag\">Armory<\/a><\/span>&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now if you go to the Armory game engine Patreon page you are great with: This engine was recently open sourced because it hit the Patreon goal of $1,600 a month.\u00a0 Development seemed to be proceeding nicely and everything was going swimmingly well, until this happened.\u00a0 Not only is this message displayed, it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-30044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-development","tag-gamedev-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}