Tagged: games

July 25, 2013 @ 10:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Toronto, Ontario based ManaCrowd has announced the development of a crowdfunding platform specifically  to support independent video games. Founded in late 2012, ManaCrowd’s system combines the services of traditional game publishing with the customer involvement of crowdfunding, while allowing all interested players to be involved… Read More

July 25, 2013 @ 8:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Successfully Crowdfunded in April 2012, First Ever Million Dollar Plus Game on Kickstarter Releases RPG Shadowrun Returns. Launching for both PC and Mac on Steam  with mobile tablets coming soon, Shadowrun Returns, is a highly anticipated, crowdfunded videogame with a long history. Created by Harebrained Schemes in… Read More

July 21, 2013 @ 10:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Successfully crowdfunded game Skullgirls announced on Twitter the PC version of their game will be released on August 22nd.  Skullgirls launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo earlier this year and raised over $800,000 for the globally popular video game.  The Skullgirls team continues to update… Read More

June 29, 2013 @ 11:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Another week of discovery in our Crowdfund Insider mailbox.  Most of the time the media covers only high profile campaigns.  Sure we cover them too, but we recognize there are hundreds of campaigns which have enormous potential which get passed by for coverage.  Most people… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 7:53 am By JD Alois  |  

With less than week left on this crowdfunding campaign, the organizers cancelled the Kickstarter project.  The company behind the effort, Stompy Bot Productions located in Canada, had set a target of $800,000 but stood at only $44,981 raised via 879 backers. In a posting on… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 1:51 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The X-Cube is the spiritual successor to the Rubik’s Cube, and the project has met its $30,000 funding goal with about three weeks left to go in the campaign. The project was launched by Illinois Institute of Technology student Dane Christianson, who launched Moving Parts… Read More

June 13, 2013 @ 7:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

It was previously reported the Shadows of the Eternals had canceled their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.  The campaign had been halted standing at $128,000 raised on a goal of $1.35 Million.  The original end date was to be the 19th of June. Now there are… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Polygon  |  

Chris Roberts is feeling good. He has persuaded over 150,000 people to kick-in $10 million for a product that doesn’t exist and won’t be completed until the end of 2014. But it’s not the pile of cash that’s lighting him up, not even the opportunity… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Until just recently, the category crowdfunded films and video held the crown of the most popular projects on Kickstarter but now crowdfunding games has usurped this position.  From the Kickstarter stats page games stand as follows: Games Category: Total projects 5,584 Total Dollars $144.21 Million… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 11:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a backers update posted on Kickstarter, organizers of the crowdfunding campaign for Shadows of the Eternals has announced they are at least temporarily pulling their campaign.  Previously there were rumblings that if the crowdfunding campaign was not successful, the game most likely would not… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 7:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Project Awakened, a third person action adventure game, announced a refund of all funds raised in from their crowdfunding campaign which fell short of their goals.  In an announcement posted on their web site they explained they were placing their crowdfunding effort on hold; Phosphor… Read More

May 5, 2013 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The video game industry has  been permanently changed with the advent of crowdfunding.  The big name and high dollar success stories continue to roll in. Star Citizen raised over $9 Million by combining a Kickstarter and self crowdfunding campaign. The Kickstarter project acted as a… Read More

May 1, 2013 @ 9:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Camelot Unchained is an MMORPG video game made for the PC that is approaching both the end of a Kickstarter campaign and a $2 million goal. If successful it would cement a place on the ever-changing crowdfunding leaderboard as one of the biggest campaigns of… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 7:50 am By GamesIndustry.biz  |  

BattleBlock Theater devs say chaos will keep everything moving forward, studios big and small always face the same hurdles Anyone hoping that a new generation of consoles will bring some stability to the game industry is bound to be disappointed, according to the co-founders of… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 9:04 pm By GameZone  |  

After reaching more than $2 million in crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Star Citizen developer kept donations open via its Roberts Space Industries website. It now has a pool of $9 million from both sources combined. That’s an increase of $1 million since mid-February. Star Citizen… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

MERCS Miniatures in Indianapolis, Indiana has a lot to celebrate as the campaign for their new board game ends. The campaign for “MYTH” is set to finish at over $900,000 of funding, completely destroying their original goal of $40,000. UPDATE: The final tally was $924,876… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 8:04 am By The Escapist  |  

Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen Kickstarter has raised over $8 million, and fans continue to jump in, despite the game being over a year away from release. “I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue [of a AAA title], a fifth of… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

GameLaunched, a crowdfunding platform for gaming which launched on March 21st, reported a significant increase in user registration.  GameLaunched, is a US based –  international crowdfunding website for gaming.  It is presently the only US crowdfunding site exclusive to gaming.  Gamelaunched successfully launched on March,… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 4:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

After a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Skullgirl creator LabZero was hit with an unexpected turn of events.  PayPal terrified of the possibility of chargebacks had frozen the account fearing the financial risk. Originally this series of events were reported on EventHubs which picked up… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 6:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Quikfix Holdings (UK), Brigands and Barbarians RPG and Steel Bridge Team (Puerto Rico) Keep them coming.  We love to hear about all of your crowdfunding projects. Successful or not we admire each of you that puts for the effort to crowdfund your dream, business or… Read More