Highly unlikely example. Why would a game designer choose Devcoin? There are other coins which would work even better or perhaps they could roll out their own coin.
Because devcoin will provide starting capital for development of this game. That's the idea behind for-profit part of Devcoin bounties: Devcoin pays bounties before software projects gets any users, and later revenue from software project helps to increase Devcoin market cap.
But currently it's not. You're saying what it can be, but right now it's not any of the things you say.
Well, yes. Because no bounties were allocated for such projects, instead they were allocated for Devtome.
I previously mentioned that it would totally make sense to finance hackathons, i.e. project which can be implemented in 48 hours. There are programmers who would not mind getting like $1000 for such hackathon, especially if it is fun... And if one of ten will be successful, it will pay off.
but right now since Devcoin only pays writers what do you expect?
This isn't true, many Devcoin bounties were paid for
- software
- open-source hardware
- logo/banner designs
- mining pools which offer an option to auto-exchange Bitcoins they mine into Devcoins
- stock market to allow Devcoin-denominated assets
I suspect that mining stocks and other Devcoin-denominated securities had a significant impact on Devcoin market cap.
Particularly, this one:
https://cryptostocks.com/securities/14 Ignore description, this is basically a Glari Mining Project (GMP) passthrough which pays Devcoins.
I suspect that when GMP will receive ASICs devcoin value might substantially go up...
Anyway, Devcoin is pretty cool if you ignore everything about Devtome. It isn't about communism, it isn't about paying as many workers as possible. It is about providing capital for cool open-source projects.
Read this:
http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoinhttp://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_bountyThat's how it was meant to be before it was all consumed by devtome.