Sure am, I have tons of (mostly unfinished) games in my folders, I participated (made the only playable demo) in the /r/france/ effort to make a memes-loaded game and while I don’t want to say that this proposal can’t work, here are the few pitfalls I think it will encounter (and I wont be willing to help until there is a good reason to see them addressed)

for a long time this will be a part time project with various people having different amount of time to work on the project

1. Here is what I predict will happen: 3-4 people will actually work on it seriously, with 5-10 making occasionally making contributions, and 50 cheering. That’s fine for a FOSS project. That’s a problem when you decide how to split revenues: you’ll need a way to gauge peoples’ contribution and there will be disagreements. Mostly because:

2. Of the people who did actual work, half of them did unusable things. There won’t be anyone to tell one person that their art is crap or just does not match the rest of the art, that their programming style does not work, that their game design ideas just suck. Diplomatically, what usually happens in the absence of a hierarchy is that we work around them (that’s additional work) and in the final product, their work is just given lip service. But then comes the sharing of revenues and there, you have 2 ways to handle that:

   • Gauge the hours worked and pretend their work has the same value. They are happy and want to continue in the project. The competent people who had to work around their contributions quit disgusted.
   • Tell them their contributions did not help the project much and they bring the whole thing into a drama masterclass.

3. If you claim anarchist principles, it is fair that cheerers will also want to have a say. Most FOSS projects are do-ocracy: the doer is the decider. If they want to do something that’s liked by the others, they have to listen to the feedback, but they also have the power to ignore some feedback even if cheerers are demanding it very loudly (e.g. I don’t have a mac so I wont do a mac version)

If the proposal is to sink a few hundreds of work in a project without being paid, and with little hope to ever be, I’d rather do it on something I love in a pure FOSS fashion without having to deal with drama and compromise.

Have a business model, address the problem of gauging the contributions, have explicit decisions mechanisms (saying “we have a horizontal structure without hierarchies” is not enough to make it true) and then we can talk.