Valve / Blender Market as Main Sponsors of Blender

[aermartin]

@krice exactly a 0$ entry ., which happens to have really good modelling tools and very good texturing.
also the BGE is awesome to get a prototype up and running, but maybe not build the entire game around because of it’s targets limitations.

[JonathanW (Jonathan Williamson)]

@Albertofx

As a BlenderMarket vendor, I notice that they basically get half of everything you should make. Selling Easy Clouds addon for $20, have had a couple sells. Not sure if the 30% they keep from each sale goes all to Blender Development fund. How does one confirm?

Just ask

No, the 30% does not go to the dev fund. The 30% goes towards covering our cost to maintain and development the market. Costs include server, web development, and most of all man-hours. Currently the market brings in enough to cover about 1/3 of it’s actual cost. We’re in it for the long haul.

Note: most of the CGCookie products do contribute to the dev-fund, in the same way that many vendors have opted to. For example, 5% of each RetopoFlow sale goes to the dev-fund.