PayPal

Available at https://paypal.me/mossrc
Price: Any amount, one-time or recurring
Benefits: A personal thank you note from me (potentially leading to an email conversation), maybe a shout-out in the show notes or on-air credits (if you'd like one), and of course that lovely feeling that you've helped me make this show better.

Patreon

Available at https://www.patreon.com/lifeandtimesofvideogames
Price: US$1 or more per month subscription
Benefits: Depends on how much you pay —
- $3/month gets you full episode transcripts, no ads, bonus audio content like extended interviews and extra soundbites, high-bitrate (320kbps on new episodes) mp3 files;
- at $6 you also get written updates and research notes plus early access to (or previews of) upcoming projects;
- $10 adds your name to the show notes and on-air credits, and it lets you vote on future episode topics and the like (plus all the $3+$6 tier stuff);
- and $30 lets you also be an executive producer for one episode every year (so you decide the topic and get as much input on the episode's direction and script, etc, as you like).
- If there's something else you'd like as a reward — either within one of the above tiers or as a new tier — just email me (mailto link is in the website footer) or message me [https://twitter.com/MossRC](on Twitter) and I'll see if I can get it added.

Why donate?

The Life & Times of Video Games is a huge labour of love, and I create it entirely on my own — with any expenses paid out of my own pocket. I'm starting to run ads, thanks to the co-op network I'm in, The HP Video Game Podcast Network, but it'll be a long time before they make me any real income.

In the meantime, and just as an in-general thing to make this show more sustainable long-term (to the point where maybe one day I can even offer it ad-free to everyone), I'd be delighted to have your financial support. A recurring donation that's even as small as $1 a month can go a surprisingly long way, especially if you're one among many giving that amount. My dream is to make this show full-time, which would require thousands of dollars a month, but I only really need a few hundred to be able to commit to producing it as an ongoing side project beyond season 4 (my chosen cut-off point for building a viable audience before I stop regular production).

So whether you're helping me achieve my dream or just enabling me to have a bigger slice of it, I'll be super grateful for every dollar you can send my way.

The Life & Times of Video Games

The Life & Times of Video Games: A documentary and narrative-style audio series about video games and the video game industry — as they were in the past, and how they came to be the way they are today.

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