Tagged: games

RPG Divinity Original Sin Surpasses $400K Goal on Kickstarter

Divinity: Original Sin, a role playing game crowdfunding on Kickstarter, has surpassed their $400,000 goal and have set up new stretch goals to keep the momentum and funding going.  Reward tiers start at $5 and scale up to $10,000. Divinity was recognized as one of… Read More

Shovel Knight Crowdfunds Over $300,000 on Kickstarter

Shovel Knight, a multi-platform game, has crowdfunded $311,502 on Kickstarter far surpassing their $75,000 goal.  The crowdfunding campaign was supported by 14,749 backers.  Shovel Knight is a product of LA based Yacht Club Games. Stretch goals were incorporated into the crowdfunding effort to help boost… Read More

Equity crowdfunding: When your players become actual investors

It was a small story we ran just before GDC that kind of flew under the radar, so you’d all be forgiven (minus Kris, who authored the thing) for missing that a game just got funded through equity crowdfunding. That is to say, rather than through… Read More

Another Game, Shroud of Avatar Flies Past Crowdfunding Goal

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, has surpassed their stated $1 Million goal on Kickstarter by raising just shy of $2 Million via support from over 22,000 backers.  This comes soon after the most money raised by a video game was announced as Torment: Tides of… Read More

Torment: Tides of Numenera Crowdfunding Total Over $4 Million

Most Funded Video Game Ever Crowdfunded on Kickstarter Surpassing the success of Double Fine Adventure,  the game Torment: Tides of Numenera crowdfunded a total of $4,188,927 which closed this past weekend.  The initial target was $900,000.  Over 74,000 backers supported this crowdfunding home run on… Read More

Mark Jacobs Talks Camelot Unchained, Kickstarter

Camelot Unchained, the upcoming RvR-centric MMORPG from Mark Jacobs and City State Entertainment, could be the spiritual successor to the classic Dark Age of Camelot.  We had a chance to talk to CSE co-founder Mark Jacobs and ask a few questions regarding the game and… Read More

He’s got game – and $57,000 in crowdfunding

Robert Burke looks for players. … The Belmont family man spends office hours as a banker. On nights and weekends, he combines artistic talent with an interest in board games — a recipe that’s paying off. To scope potential interest and investors, Burke turned to… Read More

Torment crowdfunding total surpasses Double Fine Adventure

With three days left, developer InXile Entertainment’s Torment Kickstarter surpasses Double Fine Adventure’s crowdfunding total. Is Obsidian Entertainment’s Project Eternity next? Torment: Tides of Numenera has more than 61,000 backers for a total pledge amount just short of $3,370,000. That’s more than Double Fine’s $3,336,371… Read More

Ouya Console Set to Ship June 4th, Priced at $99.99

Crowdfunded game console Ouya has revealed their pricing and ship date on their site.  The price is set at $99.99 with an additional controller priced at $49.99.  Along with selling their product directly, several national retailers have signed up to push the product.  Ouya raised… Read More

Skullgirls Crowdfunding Campaign Ends at Just Under $830K

Crowdfunding phenomena Skullgirls ended their crowdfunding campaign at $829,829.00 which easily surpassed their initial goal of $150,000.  As previously reported the Skullgirls crowdfunding initiative was a way to fund new characters for the video game.  As the interest and amount raised grew, new levels were… Read More

Indie Developers Reveal the Secrets — And Drawbacks — To Funding Videogames on Kickstarter

Just over a year after the videogame Double Fine Adventure set records on Kickstarter, talk about the crowdfunding leader is in the air at GDC, the Game Developers Conference being held this week in San Francisco. On the conference’s first day, ICO Partners CEO Thomas… Read More

Kickstarter staff and their ten favorite funded video games and tabletop games

Kickstarter has done some internal polling and they have delivered a list of favorite games from their staff which were crowdfunded on their platform.  The list for video games and table top games – all available now – are below.  The list was compiled in… Read More

9-Year-Old Girl Raises $15,000 to Make Video Game

Finally, some good news concerning females in technology. In the same week that people lost their minds over the Donglegate and upon learning that a woman is behind the popular Facebook page “I F*cking Love Science,” the Internet redeemed itself somewhat after throwing its collective… Read More

“Shroud of the Avatar” Is Your Next Million-Dollar Kickstarter Video Game

Richard Garriott, the award winning designer and creator of the Ultima franchise, makes his triumphant return to the genre that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Shroud of the Avatar is the first installment of Richard’s new… Read More

Project Awakened seeks fan input about continued crowdfunding

Kickstarter may not have worked out for Project Awakened, but Phosphor Games Studio hasn’t given up on its crowdfunding efforts, turning to fans to determine whether it should turn to fans. After falling short of their $500,000 goal, a survey up on the game’s site… Read More

GAME DEVELOPER LAUNCHES CROWDFUNDING PROJECT FOR PRISONHOOD

Independent game developer Fei Hu Interactive has launched a crowdfunding project with Indiegogo. The project was established to help secure funds to aid the ongoing development and maintenance of the game PRISONHOOD.  With only 4 weeks to secure funding, a positive result will enable the team… Read More

Game ‘Victory’ Officially Announced, Seeks Crowdfunding

The game is already at the playable prototype stage, and Victory‘s core game mechanics have been established.  Petroglyph is now reaching out to strategy gaming enthusiasts for their support and collaboration to take the game from concept to a reality.  Offering very early playable access… Read More

44% of surveyed game developers plan to try crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is in vogue among game developers this year, if the results of a recent survey are any indication. The organizers of Gamasutra’s sister show the Game Developers Conference recently surveyed 2,500 game developers — all of whom either attended last year’s show or plan on attending… Read More

Skullgirls Crowdfunding Campaign is Growing Fast on Indiegogo

Crowdfunding on Indiegogo, Skullgirls – a multiplatform fighting game – rocketed to fundraising success out of the gate on Indiegogo.  With 30 days left in their crowdfunding campaign the project has already raised $140,000 of their $150,000 goal. We’ve now surpassed $100k in just over… Read More

Developers are Now Using Crowdfunding Site Kickstarter to Fuel World Record Attempts

Not content with merely funding its latest project on Kickstarter, one developer has announced it is to use the crowdfunding platform for a world record attempt. Supersonic Software – previously behind entries in the Micro Machines series – has taken to Kickstarter with World’s Biggest Wordsearch, which (as… Read More

Send this to a friend