Tagged: kickstarter

September 20, 2013 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Periodically Kickstarter releases insight into the success of their platform and today was one of those days.  In an email Kickstarter shared some interesting statistics. Pushing almost $800 million pledged on projects to date, Kickstarter has tallied: 4.8 Million people have backed a Kickstarter project… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Imagine a world in which the great inventors of our day were forced to seek funding from venture capitalists and angel groups. Would Edison, Tesla, Ford and others have been successful in just such a climate? Northern Imagination would likely answer no. The YouTube user… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 10:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Subutai Corporation is a Seattle-based firm founded to “create stories, games, graphic novels and filmed entertainment in an integrated style.” One interesting factoid that likely helped draw backers into their Kickstarter campaign: famed American author and game designer Neal Stephenson is a co-founder. In a… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 11:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Ouya #FreeTheGames Fund, an initiative to match funds raised via crowdfunding on Kickstarter, continues to be a lightning rod of controversy. We covered Gridiron Thunder, a game that raised over $170,000 on Kickstarter allegedly thanks to some friends in high places. The average contribution… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The Owlet Smart Baby Monitor was rejected by Kickstarter and decided to go the Selfstarter route to crowdfund their product.  The goal was to raise $100,000 and as of today – with several days left in the campaign – the project stands at over $140,000… Read More

September 18, 2013 @ 12:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Matter co-founder Bobbie Johnson took to Medium yesterday to share some thoughts on crowdfunding’s direction. This followed an appearance by Johnson at an event held by the Royal Society of Arts in London in which he participated on a panel discussing crowdfunding’s future with a specific… Read More

September 18, 2013 @ 10:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Funding velocity for Mighty No. 9 has flattened out considerably after hitting Kickstarter like a ton of bricks on August 31st. The game raised over a million dollars within a few days and just hit two million a week ago. Now the game has hit… Read More

September 16, 2013 @ 1:14 am By JD Alois  |  

STEM virtual reality game controller set a crowdfunding goal of raising $250,000 this past Thursday and they hit this goal on the same day.   Standing at almost $500,000 only a few days into their campaign, the STEM system has the potential to enter the… Read More

September 15, 2013 @ 6:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rather frequently we are approached with a crowdfunding campaign which is inspirational or just someone doing something good to help other people.  The humanitarian aspect of the power of crowdfunding is very important.  It is not just raising $10 Million for a very cool piece… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 12:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Join Kickstarter’s own Kendel Ratley and Stephanie Pereira for a primer on how to bring a Kickstarter project to life. We’ll take a look at some successful projects from across the site and discuss what kind of rewards work best, how to spread the word… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 11:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Recently MogoTXT CEO Andrew Won told Joystiq that his Blitz-style NFL arcade game Gridiron Thunder will be released on September 30th. Won ignited a firestorm recently after threatening legal action against a backer via the commenting platform on Kickstarter. This was in the midst of his company’s… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Juices+ is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The campaign has already more than doubled a $40,000 goal for their premium USB phone charging cables. The campaign is just a few thousand dollars short of a big stretch goal that would unlock a gold anodized version of their… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Oculus Rift crowdfunded over $2.4 Million on Kickstarter just over a year ago and remains one of the super-stars of crowdfunding.  Oculus went on to raise $16 Million in an A round of financing with some pretty big name supporters attached. While this soon to… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 2:03 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter has announced that they are moving to HTML5 video and the accompanying <video> tag as a primary means of serving video on their crowdfunding platform. This is in contrast to their previous approach of relying mainly on Flash video and relying on HTML5 as… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 1:53 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On the BoardGameGeek forums, a member preparing a crowdfunding campaign for a new tabletop game posed an interesting and simple question: How much art should be complete before the launch of the campaign? Here are a collection of thoughts shared in the thread. (You can… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 11:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Since the last time we compiled this list some interesting trends are emerging, not the least of which is the sheer dominance of gaming-related campaigns on the Kickstarter platform – both tabletop games and video games. Interestingly enough, none of the top 10 have changed,… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 7:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter announced today their entry into Canada was off to a booming start.  Already 125 projects have launched (This past Monday the official launch date they had several dozen) and they have 3,196 in the queue prepping to launch.  Not too bad, eh? From Medicine… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 5:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Omate TrueSmart came under fire recently following a post on Google Plus that explained problems with the form factor of the device and promises the device’s manufacturers had made regarding the inclusion of the Google Play store. The TrueSmart has a week left until… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 has hit $2 million with 19 days left. The campaign will spend the remainder of it’s lifecycle trying to ascend the all-time Kickstarter charts. It was only 9 days ago that we were covering the $1 million milestone,… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Daniel Haarburger is a two-time crowdfunding success, with both projects having been fully funded on Kickstarter. His first project was the WINGStand, a set of small clips that allowed iPhone and iPad users to mount their phones to popular Apple bluetooth keyboards. Backers appreciated the… Read More