Paid volunteers (aka employees) write code, while unpaid volunteers handle localisation and moderation.
The Day Before developer Fntastic is on the hunt for unpaid volunteers to do work like localisation and moderation on the title, Steam’s most wishlisted game.
Fntastic detailed what unpaid volunteer work would encompass on its website and through a YouTube video.
“Fntastic’s culture is based on the idea of volunteering,” reads the developer’s official website. “This means that every Fntastic member is a volunteer.”
Full-time “volunteers” are paid a salary — so they’re basically employees — while part-time volunteers are not. Instead, those workers will be offered items like participation certificates and game codes for their services.
“Being a volunteer means that you willingly take part in working for a common cause,” the developer continued in a video. “Volunteering means that in every action you take, you bring a certain pleasantness.”
Well Played’s Zach Jackson took to Twitter after speaking with Fntastic about the volunteer scheme and was told that “the volunteering (unpaid) aspect does not relate to ‘code writing or development itself’. Just things like localisation and moderation,” which aligns with activities listed on the developer’s website.
What do you make of Fntastic’s plan to use unpaid workers to help ship their title?
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