Tagged: kickstarter

April 3, 2013 @ 6:26 am By Gaston Gazette  |  

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

April 2, 2013 @ 6:36 pm By VentureBeat  |  

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

April 2, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Schuyler M. Moore  |  

Now that Kickstarter has hit the awareness of the independent film community with the successful $2 million raise for Veronica Mars, it is time to pause and think through the legal consequences of using Kickstarter for both sides — contributors and recipients. But first, we need to… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Wired.co.uk  |  

Can the current Kickstarter boom continue and will the presence of established businesses affect our willingness to offer up our cash? As Kickstarter‘s reputation for swiftly bankrolling projects grows, it’s no surprise that established games companies and industry veterans have been sitting up and taking note…. Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:48 am By TechCrunch  |  

Michael Shapiro isn’t the sort of person I’d expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He’s a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he’s been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated —… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Wired  |  

The Elevation Dock was one of Kickstarter’s first million-dollar projects and is now one of the first products on new crowdfunding marketplace Outgrow.me. Y Combinator, the premier startup launchpad, held its latest demo day this week, with crowdfunding as one of the big themes with… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 6:23 am By JD Alois  |  

BlueRun Crowdfund, a division of BlueRun Media (BlueRun), announced the recent launch of their crowdfunding services firm for the film industry, including announcing some of BlueRun’s current clients and eight ongoing or soon-to-start crowdfund campaigns. “The success of Veronica Mars with crowdfunding has certainly placed… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:26 am By Earth Techling  |  

An Arizona company is promoting a pretty and pretty spectacular version that’s apparently lightweight enough to transport in a small car. The 18-panel device folds up and unfolds like a nyctinastic flower and the idea is that it can be used to power an electric vehicle,… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:21 am By Vice  |  

Last week when I logged onto Facebook to catch up on political Willy Wonka pictures and my friends’ general bellyaching about the weather, the words “musical prodigy” and “Kickstarter” jumped out at me. Being a sucker for a good oxymoron and already having mixed feelings… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:08 am By Geekosystem  |  

There’s been something of an uproar lately about Kickstarter. Specifically, folks have been questioning the meaning of the immensely successful Veronica Mars movie campaign. Does this mean we can use Kickstarter to fund whatever we want? Can we cut out Hollywood entirely? On the negative… Read More

March 31, 2013 @ 9:39 am By The Economist  |  

DAVE KELLETT and Fred Schroeder set out to shoot a documentary about the art of cartooning. In the process, however, the film, called “Stripped”, turned into a story about the disruptive and often positive effect of the internet on comic strips. Mr Kellett, meanwhile, turned… Read More

March 30, 2013 @ 9:52 am By Business Insider  |  

From the original article… In July 2012, Equiso was living the Kickstarter dream. Now it’s in a Kickstarter nightmare. It has legions of unhappy customers, alleged threats from hacking group Anonymous, and a forgotten co-founder who claims to have been unfairly ousted. It’s also being accused of selling… Read More

March 29, 2013 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

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

March 29, 2013 @ 8:55 am By Joystiq  |  

Stompy Bot Productions and Mektek Studios’ Heavy Gear Assault, being shown at GDC and revealed yesterday as an Unreal Engine 4 game, will launch its Kickstarter in two weeks. The companies are shooting for $800,000, planning the game for PC, Mac and Linux. The game will be free-to-play, but… Read More

March 28, 2013 @ 7:39 pm By John Biggs  |  

Austin-based Moniker Guitars is running a Kickstarter campaign to create a line of semi-hollow-body guitars for discerning git-fiddlists. The company will offer their first guitars for a $700 pledge, not bad for a hand-made guitar from rockabilly city. The company is looking for $50,000 to start and… Read More

March 28, 2013 @ 8:44 am By Steve O'Hear  |  

Another established hardware startup is turning to Kickstarter to help fund its next wares. This time it’s the turn of Click & Grow, maker of the smart garden that lets you grow a plant indoors with little or no intervention. After selling over 50,000 units of its first… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 8:07 pm By AllThingsD  |  

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

March 27, 2013 @ 4:39 pm By GizMag  |  

After looking into the pros and cons of nine methods of electricity production (including coal, geothermal, biomass, and solar), a group of 9 and 10 year-olds from Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina decided that their classroom should be powered using only… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 9:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Flint and Tinder became famous in 2012 for raising $300,000 to change how men buy underwear in the US. Founder Jake Bronstein noticed that most of the product available on store shelves was made overseas and left a lot to be desired in the quality department…. Read More

March 26, 2013 @ 5:09 pm By James Orry  |  

$665,000 needed to fund The Big Blue, a new game from the team that created Ecco. The Big Blue, a new aquatic action adventure game from the team that created Ecco the Dolphin, has launched on Kickstarter and is seeking $665,000 in funding. The game… Read More