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Six reasons why David Braben’s Kickstarter is exactly the right move
David Braben, one of the two original creators of Elite, the seminal space exploration, trading and combat game first released in 1982, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new version of Elite. Many commentators have...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Kickstarter: After the Kick but before the Start
I'm the creative director at Stoic and we've been working on The Banner Saga after a shockingly successful Kickstarter campaign. We set out to raise $100,000 to help us expand our game content and ending up with...
- Posted 12 years ago
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What does a big Kickstarter project look like in prize form?
The Banner Saga was certainly not the biggest campaign Kickstarter has ever seen. Double Fine had 80k backers, Wasteland 2 had 60k, Shadowrun had over 30k, not to mention non-games. But unlike these larger, somewhat established developers...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Penny Arcade leads the way
Yesterday, my Twitter feed was full of the news that Penny Arcade, the successful ad-funded business, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to remove the need for it to sell ads. The response was pretty negative. Words like...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Seven secrets for crowdfunding success
Of all the great sessions at the Children's Media Conference, the crowdfunding panel with Naomi Alderman of Six to Start, writer of Roger Nix Nick Daze, Jason DaPontee of Firebrace and Kevin Mclean of Tinkatolli was a...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Kickstarter Games projects raise a MEDIAN average of only $23,000
Thomas Bidaux of Ico Partners has done an excellent analysis of successful Kickstarter games projects. Like me, he is very aware of the difference between the mean and the median average, whereby the mean average is heavily...
- Posted 12 years ago
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Kickstarter and the Gartner Hype cycle
Yesterday, I wrote about the inevitable bursting of the Kickstarter bubble. (The post was originally made on Gamasutra). I had meant to check out the Gartner Hype Cycle and a link from Tadhg Kelly reminded me to do...
- Posted 13 years ago