CROWD ADVENTURE
Q) How efficiently can you make new areas? Who are you exactly?

A) I'm Matthew Lyles Hornbostel, I'm a capable 3d and texture artist, but disabled [several mental illnesses] and generally long-term unemployed. That said, I am smart if weird, I do work hard, and I am serious about this.

How many new areas are made depends on rate at which Ko-Fi backers show up, which is to say... unkown.

What I can say is that if they flood in, there's zero reason I couldn't create a fairly large world every week, or several smaller ones instead. The initial demo world seen here as the starting point, was made with just eight hours' actual work. 

I can have a game space totaling a square mile or more in total combined explorable area, by the end of 2020 if things ramp up really crazy fast. I won't say the quality will be flawless but it'll generally be pretty good, I hope. Think about that - for a crowdfunded few hundred dollars, 2/3 of it going to others beyond me, it'd result in a freely, publicly available mix of interesting artsy gameworlds, which if all combined, could have the sheer mass of explorable area of NYC's Central Park added every 5-6 months. And if you're a Ko-Fi supporter, no reason you can't toss in a comment, like some detail you would like added to a gameworld in the future, or something like that. I'll try to accomodate such requests! If you back repeatedly I may notice and be amenable to larger-scale requests, as in an entire world dedicated to you and based on your ideas.
Next queued focus areas, adventure game support spending:

-The Myst Documentary Kickstarter.
-Syberia 3, PC purchase
-The Longest Journey, Grim Fandango purchases, iPad ports of these classic games
-Uru [Myst Online] fund.

Next queued charities:

-Against Malaria Foundation
-KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program)
-World Wildlife Fund
-GiveDirectly
-The Nature Conservancy
-Kiva.org
-WorldVision
Q: Why is this - Crowd Adventure - placed as a subdomain of a Myst fansite?

A: I don't want to waste limited money creating yet another domain name at this time. If your concern is the 'raising funds on a subdomain of a fansite' thing, keep in mind that firstly, I am giving some bit of the money raised back to them [Cyan, the people who created Myst], and secondly, this subdomain is not linked to from the main domain anywhere. So most people visiting the fansite don't know this page even exists, and when they do, it's from another source that they discovered it.

But yes, this subdomain has outbound links to the main domain visible, and not vice versa. 
Crowd Adventure is a retro style first-person point-and-click puzzle adventure mini game with fairly pretty visuals and some mostly very easy puzzles. It's an experimental, potentially ongoing project for a low-budget indie dev who has a ton of 3d-art skill, and lots of available time to work on things but is struggling to find steady work, that pays any real consistent amount.

Every $3 payment in support of Crowd Adventure, to the creator of it, via Ko-Fi, will result in:
-PayPal taking a small cut in 'transaction fees' [generally this is 2.9% + 30 cents, i.e. 39 cents total for a $3 transaction] 
-Me usually keeping $0.87 of the $3 as payment for 90 mins. work creating additions to this game. That's right, I'll agree to work on this for essentially 59 cents/hour up to an upper total limit of 6 hours daily, and if on a day more than four Ko-fi payments get made, well, it rolls over to fund development during any future days when things are less busy. And the 59 cents/hour I earn mostly will go into software, and other unrelated gamedev project expenses, to help finish other projects and cover their costs. Not just totally frivolous spending. The first 3 Ko-Fi payments in any given month will stretch further; I'll accept a pay rate of $0.29/hr for the initial three [three hours for each Ko-fi payment contributed] and $0.49/hr the next three in a given month [two hours per payment sent] 

-$0.87 out of the $3 going to support of the broader puzzle/adventure game genre beyond any of this, by outright buying adventure games, funding ongoing gamedev projects by others, and backing adventure-related crowdfunding efforts every so often. The focus is on 'adventure genre' primarily but once in a while other inventive/ambitious indie games may be supported even if they are somewhat outside the strict confines of the third or first person adventure genre. Eg. more abstracted puzzlers, puzzle-platformers, walking sims with minimal game mechanics, beautifully crafted gameworlds in other genres, etc. If a project nails enough of the things I love to see in an adventure game like compelling and well-crafted storytelling, smart game mechanics that involve puzzles, beautiful and intricate gameworlds dripping with atmosphere, or largely non-violent play or just overall brilliant ideas and indie creativity... I'll consider supporting it down the line.

-$0.87 of the $3 to support the real world, not any digital one, with a mix of medical, educational, and environmental giving. All the gifts and spending in the latter $2 will be screen captured so you can see where all the funding's going aside from the game. 

-Finally, any first-time Ko-Fi backers here, will be given access to all my stock media and indie game preorders on Itch.IO. [$14.45 value] and if you browse those other projects you'll see what other adventure game projects this is raising funding for, [AND] you'll see why I cannot siphon all my time to this 'CrowdAdventure' project. (If I accept spending more than 6 hours/day on this, it will detract from any ability to work on my other gamedev & creative efforts!)