one of the ideas we had a while ago was (if there was profit enough for) to invest in others work.
for example host a server for them, buy a domain, ...
With this idea we were mainly focusing on people using online features.
This way we don't pay developers, but they can make use of our services as an advantage for their development.
I wish this would turn out to be a success. Personally, the only thing that's keeping me from finishing a project of mine is a lack of the possibility of hosting the online services, because I don't have income either, so it would be impossible to host the online services.
Okay, to be fair, I don't think more than 10people would play Kamisado on their 3DSses, but still
Also, if this turns out to be a success, I have a suggestion: only rent one server, just set up subdomains to point to the user's folder, because this way it's a lot cheaper
Yeah we're planning on that actually, so we need to find a solution for that, or save enough before we release it
iirc the 3DS's browser is open source. I think it should be possible to port it to homebrew environment, then detect if the user is using this "dedicated" app, and if it's the dedicated app, then just replace the download links, so it triggers the dedicated app.
And because it's using WebKit, the ads are displayed, and the only real change needed would be to add the homebrew download trigger code that replaces the target of the download button.