Sorry to bring the conversation back to a topic that has been addressed but I don't think Triangle realizes why the website is important. Even without a completed product to offer, we still want clear information about the project.
We, the supporters, have invested in your dream because we too believe in it and we believe you can make it a reality. It's ok that you don't have a finished product. You communicated your plan (through your website) and we funded the dream. For the time being, that information is your product. But now, for some strange reason, you took that information away.
Jinn is one of the few projects that I'm aware of that is being funded through crypto but has scope far beyond it. Even people who don't believe in bitcoin can still believe in Jinn. I want to be able to tell my friends to check out what you guys are doing and help garner interest, but there is nowhere to direct them.
The website doesn't have to be fancy, but at least somewhat informative. Please don't give info then take it away.
I can say nothing related to financial and administrative areas, but I can update on technical part.
Right now I'm working on Aftermath. I call it a Skyrim mod, but this is only for convenience of people who don't know the details. Actually, the main goal of Aftermath is to "prove the concept", not to create a mod. In plain English it means that I'll write a backend using Jiniri and then Skyrim fans will run their game that will work as a viewport to Aftermath. Some players could run, for example, Fallout New Vegas, or GTA, or Assassin's Creed and play together in the same world, but you can imagine what a mess this would be.
I had planned to run an alpha-test in a week or two, but suddenly completed the tasks much earlier. While I'm waiting for hardware to deploy the backend too, I'm writing some extra stuff for Aftermath (like a chat). The test aims to do two things - test networking part and collect statistics. Now players can only travel around the world, interact with environment and chat. They can't craft nor fight, they don't even have animation yet, only static models. This will be added later, after statistical model of the world is built.
As I said players could run any game (some modifications required though) and connect to Aftermath. The backend is game agnostic, but some info is required to prevent cheating. By travelling alpha-testers will be creating waypoints, this will allow the backend to detect cases when a player attempts to repeat such a trick -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-R-VhpEfA - and ban him.
If someone wants to take part in the test - download the latest English version of Skyrim from Steam. A cracked version may not work (not sure, depends on changes in the executable file). There will be special tasks for the testers, their completion will be granted with in-game gold that could be used to buy houses and other stuff in Aftermath. Tasks, bug reports and special events are supposed to be the only way to get gold (I don't count selling in-game items to other players, this is mainly what the gold will be used for).