Tagged: kickstarter

April 2, 2017 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With its highly successful Kickstarter campaign set to close tomorrow evening, CoolMiniOrNot’s Rising Sun is nearing $3.65 million thanks to more than 27,450 backers. The board game studio launched the project, which is its twenty-sixth Kickstarter, last month and sought to raise a minimum of $300,000. Rising Sun is… Read More

March 30, 2017 @ 3:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the highly anticipated Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival set to premiere April 14th on video streaming service, Netflix, the crew behind the Kickstarter-funded project announced an upcoming livestream preview event and released a teaser trailer. As previously reported, Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater… Read More

March 29, 2017 @ 11:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  With its estimated delivery date set for May 2017, creators of the hilarious Kickstarter success Bears vs Babies, Elan Lee and Matthew Inman, announced a new progress update. As previously reported, playing Bears vs Babies is strategic and with one goal, to create monsters that destroy babies. Players… Read More

March 28, 2017 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than three years after securing £374,213 through its Indiegogo campaign, Tens, the creator of real life photo filtering sunglasses, has launched a reward-based crowdfund campaign through Indiegogo’s competitor, Kickstarter. Originally seeking £10,000, the company’s initiative has already secured its funding target and is nearing £30,000. The… Read More

March 28, 2017 @ 12:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Larian Studios, the creators of Kickstarter successes, Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin 2, announced on Tuesday that Polymorph and Summoning skills are now available to all owners of Divinity: Original Sin 2, which is currently available on Steam Early Access. According to the studio, the skills come to… Read More

March 24, 2017 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two weeks until its reward-based crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter comes to an end, CoolMiniOrNot’s Rising Sun board game has successfully secured $3 million from more than 23,000 backers. This is the 26th crowdfunding initiative CoolMiniOrNot has launched. The board game’s story reads:… Read More

March 23, 2017 @ 11:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Kickstarter announced that it has hit a brand new milestone. A total of 10,000 game projects have successfully been funded since the funding portal’s launch in 2009. The crowdfunding giant revealed in a blog post: “The day after Kickstarter launched in 2009, Eric… Read More

March 21, 2017 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced it was welcoming e-commerce platform Shopify to its resources page. According to the crowdfunding giant, Shopify is now offering campaign creators a 45-day free trial. The Kickstarter team stated: “We are excited to work with Shopify because when paired with themes… Read More

March 18, 2017 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two weeks after launching the Rising Sun Kickstrter campaign, CoolMiniOrNot’s 26th crowdfunding initiative has successfully secured more than $2.4 million thanks to over 22,000 backers. The project’s original funding target was $300,000. As previously reported, Rising Sun is described as a 3 to 5 player board game… Read More

March 16, 2017 @ 4:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  With the Kickstarter-funded revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000 set to premiere on Netflix next month, the online/streaming service is now showcasing 20 classic episodes of the sci-fi cult series. Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in… Read More

March 16, 2017 @ 3:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the announcement that President Donald Trump proposed the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of his federal budget plan, Kickstarter co-founder and CEO Yancey Strickler took to the crowdfunding giant’s blog to express… Read More

March 14, 2017 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tabletop studio and publisher, CoolMiniOrNot has launched its 26 reward-based crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The company, which has created various popular board games such as Zombicide, Blood Rage, The Others, and Arcadia, sought to raise $300,000 for its new game Rising Sun and quickly secures… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 2:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following a series of unexpected delays, Blank Media Games, the creators of the Kickstarter-funded card game, Town of Salem, announced it will be shipping the highly anticipated card game to U.S. backers in two weeks. Town of Salem is described as a game of murder, mayhem,… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week until its hilarious Kickstarter campaign was set to close, Chuck Williams’ Naked Trump Troll Doll project was pulled by the crowdfunding platform over an intellectual property dispute. As previously reported, the Trump Troll Doll surfaced on Kickstarter last month, seeking $30,000…. Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 3:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced the games that are participating in its Game Castle at this year’s PAX East, which will take place on March 10th-12th in Boston. The funding portal revealed: “Featured tabletop games include Elan Lee’s Kickstarter record-smashing Exploding Kittens — which raised… Read More

March 4, 2017 @ 9:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Alchema, a smart device and mobile app platform that provides a hassle-free solution to making hard ciders, meads, wines, and other alcoholic brews, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The company previously secured $344,231 from 899 backers through its reward-based crowdfunding campaign on… Read More

March 3, 2017 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced on Thursday it is teaming up with True/False Film Festival to bring childcare to the 2017 event. The True/False Film Festival described as an event that offers a four-day weekend of creative placemaking in which filmmakers, artists, musicians and others in… Read More

March 2, 2017 @ 4:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly a year and a half after it became a public benefit corporation, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter released its 2016 public benefit corporation statement. A public benefit corporation is described as a corporation that performs a specific function for the benefit of the public. While sharing details about its… Read More

March 2, 2017 @ 9:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Kickstarter announced the launch of its latest initiative, All in 1. According to the crowdfunding platform, this new project aims to help campaign organizers get their ideas out there, simply and swiftly, so they may get right to the fun part, creating, all in… Read More

February 28, 2017 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bill Diggins, the manager of TLC, announced on Monday an update about the all-girl group’s Kickstarter-funded album, which is tentatively scheduled to be released at the end of June 2017. TLC hit the crowdfunding platform in 2015 to raise $150,000 for their fifth and final album. The group, which originally… Read More