With this month's upcoming move and subsequent scramble to obtain new day jobs, progress on Banana-nana-Ninja will be sort of up in the air for a few weeks. New stuff is in production and even more things are on the drawing board, but there will be little free time to work on it for a while.
But you can make a difference!If you go to the Support Banana-nana-Ninja page (or just
click here and I'll lead you by the hand) you will find our PayPal donation button. With your help, day-to-day life might be a little less of a struggle and I can get back to this stuff faster.
You think Wikipedia's donation ads are a guilt trip? Just wait till you start hearing
me whine about the countless hours I've spent hunched over Flash and Photoshop, screaming into a microphone, voice coaching, creating custom sound effects, mixing audio, shooting video, and programming -- all for your
totally free amusement!
Don't get me wrong, I love what I'm doing here -- and that's why it pains me to miss scheduled updates and leave you guys hanging, all because I'm lacking free time and resources. So if you love BNN (or even if you just like it, or find it vaguely amusing) then even a
small donation will make our lives just a
little easier, and allow us to keep cranking out the awesome, with more and
awesomer awesome spurting out with every crank.
And don't forget -- your donations don't just go to me. You'll be showing your appreciation to no less than 2 artists, 7 voice actors, and a DJ who provides original music for the series. As soon as the site's income exceeds the costs of running it, the
whole team reaps the rewards for their efforts.
So just what is it that you'll be supporting, exactly? Let me count the ways:
- The second story arc, Apples and Origins, will be in production shortly after the move. Why is all this freaky fruit running around causing mayhem? The world will finally know!
- You will soon be able to take the What's Your Ninja Status? quiz, so that you can find out just what sort of ninja you are and brag to your friends!
- A new game, Sudoku Blaster, a puzzle game with a sudoku theme. Starring, of course, America's favorite ninja-suited nerdy tangerine!
- I can take Haiku's Poetry Corner off of hiatus!
- And most importantly, we can eat for a couple days while we hunt for new jobs in a forbidding market!
If donations exceed my expectations, I will cook up something
extra special to show my gratitude. I have no idea what it would be at the moment, but if I'm sufficiently impressed then I will certainly think of something.
