I was doing it wrongMonday, April 28, 2025199Since the beginning of my adventure in games development back in 2011, I have been thinking that I should be using the game’s revenue to support the development and to cover the cost of working on the development full-time. This isn’t how it works, I learned about that recently, almost every company out there never count on revenue to cover development or operation costs, 99% of the companies raise millions to cover operation costs without making any revenue for years to follow, like Google and some other big names out there, I wish I knew that 14 years ago, watch this video by YCombinator if you are interested in knowing more.Additionally, my biggest mistake was treating players as investors, I should never have done that. Players are my customers, not investors. I spent years chasing couple thousands while I could have easily raised millions from angel investors or VC if they find Planet Of Luck interesting enough to invest in, but I had no idea about that till recently, and at the same time, I thought most players would be investors due to the nature of the real cash economy aspect of Planet Of Luck, sure, giving the players a way to own parts of the game wouldn’t change even if I learned about this VC earlier, but they are still players, customers, not investors.Now that I know about this, I will start seeking investments from angel investors and VC, not from players anymore, I’m talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars here at minimum, sure, anyone is welcome to invest that much ofc, player or not, but that will be a real life investment with equity share, not by in-game items to earn in-game currency, there is a legal mechanism already to facilitate raising fund called SAFE(simple agreement for future equity), you can read more about this at YCombinator website, it is where I learned about all of that, and it will be the first place I will apply to soon, hopefully they have a place for Planet Of Luck, and even if they don’t, I’m grateful for the knowledge I got from them and I will try to apply it somewhere else.In the meantime, even though I have been into this for over 14 years alone, I’m open to what YCombinator suggests of having a co-founder joining me with equal equity split, maybe I can find that co-founder here. Send me a message on Discord if you are interested.I’m shutting down the shop at Buy Me a Coffee; no one has purchased anything from it, and you already missed out if you took that long to consider. Finally, I want to let you know that the bug of undelivered emails for password reset and signing up should have been fixed. Please let me know if you encounter this bug again.
HousekeepingMonday, February 17, 2025198You would think I mean cleaning up the code and getting ready for a good announcement when you read the Housekeeping word, but unfortunately, I literally mean this word, on 26th January 2025, I started working as a housekeeper in a sports club here in my country Egypt for about $110 monthly, on paper, this is a 9 hours job, but this extends to 15 hours job due to the location of the club and the physical demand nature of the job, and I must get ready 3 hours before commencing to make sure I get there in time, and the same in the way back to get a shower and prepare food then eat before getting into bed to catch a bit of sleep before repeating over and over.I’m not ashamed or saying it is a bad job, but, it is not the reward I expected after going through 14 years of facing countless obstacles to find enough time to learn and develop Planet Of Dreams and Planet Of Luck, I tried reaching out for help many many times to avoid such a situation where it is impossible to make any progress in the development, but even the previous embarrassing announcement was another failed attempt.What a bad situation I know, but it is a completely avoidable situation if I can get you to invest in the game, and here I am trying again to ask for help to continue the development, I created a Buy Me a Coffee page with a shop containing very interesting and rewarding items that you can pre-order to fund the development of Planet Of Luck and/or to support the development monthly, but I gotta warn you though, delivering these items is conditioned upon having enough sales to cover enough time to finish the coming version, we had our player Governmental spending couple thousands dollars in the past to see a feature added to the game, and I think we can do the same this time too.
Four years since the last announcement!Saturday, May 18, 2024197Wow, time flies by, but here are some of the reasons why there wasn’t any announcement on the website for almost 4 years:There are very few visitors to the website, I don’t see any point in posting announcements when there won’t be any readers.Most active followers of the game are on Discord, I try to keep everyone updated there when something interesting happens, and a lot has been happening, like events, and a new complete feature has been added recently to the game with all details posted on Discord, but I just disabled and discontinued this feature as there is no point for keeping such overpowered feature when it failed to bring activity back to the game.I’m re-building up the website from scratch with new technology in preparation for the move to a new server as you may already know, and I don’t want to keep adding content to the current website knowing I will need to do that again in the new one.I know it is a lot of time without seeing any progress or any announcement about what is going on with the development, but I can’t do that alone, I count on your support to keep me motivated and to buy me time that I can spend on the development, I have been buying time with your support since 2011, and even though I really appreciate all that support, but it has never been enough to pay the bills, nor paying any of the accumulating debt through all those years, and now I’m at the point where I can’t afford allocating any time at all to the development, especially when that support stopped all together, and after things have turned down the hell with the refund of the last Giant hate bottles purchase (check the edit on the previous announcement)Don't get me wrong, I’m not blaming anyone of course, I really really appreciate all your support, I’m just trying to give you an idea of the current situation and how impossible it has become to allocate any time to the development recently without any financial support, 14 years seem to be the maximum of what I can afford, I have been trying to extend it already the past 4 years, but unfortunately I can’t extend that any longer without the help from someone.Again, don’t get me wrong, I’m working on the development already, but not as fast as any of us would desire, and not enough to see any result, I will mostly delete the following part in the future, but here are our options anyway:(I can’t work as a developer in a full-time or contract job, I’m not good enough for companies to hire me, I haven’t spent those 14 years working on my resume, nor have any degree.)I get a 12 hours full-time job as a cleaner or a janitor here in my country = no developmentSomeone helps me relocate to Europe, Canada, Australia, or the USA to get an unskilled 8-hour full-time job, that might give me a couple of hours a day to spend on the development, I can get back to my country after I save about $3,000 from my salary, which is enough for 24/7 development for a full year in my country with the current exchange rate.Someone gives me $3,000 as a donation/loan/deposit/investment, enough for a full year of development.Host me on your property, give me internet access, and feed me for free for a year or so till I finish the new version, I can help with living chores (this last option is a response to someone asking why would I need money to work on the website or the game).
Present points eventFriday, September 18, 2020196A total of 14 Giant hate bottles have Permanent owners now, Mr_Galderas, Ebx and troy purchased some Giant hate bottles recently, and Ogreme just did the same a week ago and purchased 3 bottles at once.It is not too late yet, there are 21 bottles with no Permanent owners still.To celebrate these sales, everyone will be earning Present points while playing Planet Of Luck till the end of October.You can keep track of your Present points and exchange them with many Presents at the Present points exchange page that is full of different Presents.The Events page has all the details about Present points, and it will show who are the players who have accumulated the most Present points through the event, and our channel on Discord will give you instant notifications whenever someone gets a Present, make sure to join our Discord server.Don't miss playing Planet Of Luck through the event to collect as many Presents as you can.Have fun.Edited on Monday, September 28, 2020Ogreme sold back the bottles to me, now Mr_Galderas, Ebx and troy are the only players who purchased bottles, 24 bottles still have no permanent owner.
Planet Of Luck version 5.1 has been releasedMonday, September 7, 2020195This is bugs fixes version for the previous version.Read the Release notes.Download Planet Of Luck version 5.1
Planet Of Luck version 5 has been releasedFriday, August 14, 2020194New and improved pay plan for Giant hate bottles.Additional Giant hate bottle income for Permanent owners.Storage to free up inventory space.Redesigned Market to attract traders.Automatically merged items from the Shop.More Persistant settings.And much more.Read the full Release notes.Download Planet Of Luck version 5.Browse the Screenshots of Planet Of Luck version 5.I hope you will have fun.
Giant hate bottles new pay planTuesday, July 14, 2020193First, I want to welcome all new players who joined us lately, I hope you are having fun.A new pay paln for Giant hate bottles will be introduced in the Coming version where all owners of Giant hate bottles (Fighting/Permanent) will earn a share from all the profit generated by all Giant hate bottles.The profit of all bottles will get distributed equally to 70 Shares starting from the coming version, 2 owners X 35 Giant hate bottles, this makes Giant hate bottles more attractive and more fair to everyone since high level bottles and low level bottles will earn equally, no waiting till players use high end items for the high level bottles to earn profit.Additionally, the Permanent owner of each bottle will have an additional income depends on the level of the Giant hate bottle he owns, more about that will be on the release notes of the coming version.This great improvement for the Giant hate bottles is almost done, you still have the chance to purchase one before it is too late, only 25 bottles are left.
Christmas 2020 FarmsWednesday, January 1, 2020192First, I want to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for everyone.The Farms page has been updated and the Sell button will get activated automatically on the ROI date to let you sell the Trees you have purchased from the First Farm.Another update to the Farms page is the addition of a new Farm, Christmas 2020 Farm, and the page is ready to add more Farms easily in the future depending on how successful this Farm will be, additionally, the Farms page has more dynamic interface for each Farm now.It is very important to purchase Trees from Christmas 2020 Farm, everyone should purchase some Trees from this Farm, no matter if you are active or not, no matter if you play Planet Of Luck or Planet Of Dreams nor neither, reaching the target of this Farm is very important and will determine how successful the year of 2020 and the following years will be.Here is why you should purchase some Trees from the Christmas 2020 Farm:1- All the dates are set and you know before hand what the target is, when the sale ends and when you can sell the Trees.2- You will get 200 Secret ingredients daily from each Tree you purchase to help you craft more items, double that amount if you collect the daily items, the sooner your purchase the more items you will collect.3- The ROI is 120% if we reach the target, that is 20% profit in 4 months(or less).4- No need to worry about reaching the target when you purchase some Trees, as you will be able to get back your money sooner than the specified ROI date if we don't.5- You can sell your Trees from the First Farm if you have any then use the ROI to purchase Trees from Christmas 2020 Farm.6- There will be no fees for deposits over $10 through the sale period.7- "MOST IMPORTANTLY", hitting the target will give me the chance to purchase better PC, better PC means faster development for the website, Planet Of Luck and Planet Of Dreams, as I will be able to use latest versions of the softwares I use in the development, I'm currently using too old versions and the new versions should make things a lot easier and faster, this Farm is my last resort to speed up the development, sure I will continue the development no matter what, but I'm not sure how long this will take if this Farm fails, my goal is to improve the development environment with the Christmas 2020 Farm, so I won't lower the target this time as we MUST reach that target to obtain the result, I already lowered the target of the First Farm to show you how the Farms work, no need to do that again for the Christmas 2020 Farm.Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Christmas and New Year event (2020)Sunday, December 8, 2019191You will be earning Present points while you are playing Planet Of Luck through the Christmas and New Year event which starts 15th December and ends at the end of 15th January, you can keep track of your Present points and exchange them with many Presents at the Present points exchange page that is full of different Presents, and you are welcome to pm me on Discord to suggest additional Presents.The Events page has all the details about Present points and other additions in the event, and it will show who are the players who have accumulated the most Present points through the event, and the latest claimed Presents by players, and our new channel on Discord will give you instant notifications whenever someone gets a Present, make sure to join our Discord server.Don't miss playing Planet Of Luck through the event to collect as many Presents as you can.Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Planet Of Luck FarmsFriday, October 11, 2019190You can now purchase Trees planted in Planet Of Luck to harvest items and to make some profit in short period of time.This is a new feature completely run on the website, you can already purchase as many Trees as you want, just log in your member area and check the Farms page for the details of these Farms, more Farms should be added in the future with different items and different ROI.New channel in our Discord server will show a real time announcements whenever a player purchases Trees to keep you updated of the total sold Trees.It isn't necessary to be active in Planet Of Luck to take part in this new feature, you can invest in these Trees without even playing Planet Of Luck, tho having your character in Planet Of Luck can increase your profit by selling the items you harvest if you are not planning to use them in your crafting.I want to remind you that your support and activity is proportional to the development speed, I understand that most of you are bored and waiting for new versions with new content, but new versions will hardly happen if you stay inactive, when old players are inactive then there is no point and no pressure on me to work on new versions, of course I'm working on the development but not as fast as any of us would desire, the speed can greatly improve when you stick around, and this Farm feature has the potential to keep you around while we make better progress, our games are Real Cash Economy anyway and there should be more of such features.Thanks for everyone who is still around and looking forward to have you back if you aren't ;)
