Previous Kickstarters
Warmachine Tactics – $1.57 million. Finished.
Legend of Iya – $77k. Finished.
Project Ravensdale – $72k ($500k goal). Canceled.
Codename Cygnus – $13k. Finished.
Chroma Squad – $80k. 5 days left.
CANDLE – $51k. 2 hours left.
Bring Revolution 60 to PC & Mac – $7k. 13 days left.
Crypt Run: Death is Just the Beginning – $9k. Finished.
Insignificant – $7k. 6 days left.
Dwarven Delve – $10k ($60k goal). 13 days left.
Ghost Song – $29k. 19 days left.
Proton Pulse Rift – $5k. 21 days left.
Pro Pinball: Timeshock! – £30k (£40k goal). 29 days left.
New Kickstarters
Project Phoenix – $484k ($100k goal). About 7,600 backers. 25 days left. I’m not a big fan of this kickstarter since there’s several questionable elements to it (vague pitch, large staff that isn’t drawing salaries, some misleading credentials, RTS-based gameplay even though they’re pitching it as a return to JRPG classics), but if nothing else, it shows that there’s large potential demand for a big budget JRPG on kickstarter (conversely, most of the cheap RPGamer-based kickstarters tend to fail to get more than a few thousand).
Shades of Sanity – $3k ($200k goal). About 140 backers. 41 days left. Spiritual successor to Sanitarium by ex-Dreamforge staff.
Starcraft Universe – $32k ($80k goal). About 710 backers. 25 days left. Multiplayer Online RPG mod for Starcraft 2 with Blizzard’s blessing.
Crowdfunding Tip of the Week
Kickstarter did a great article on the risks of stretch goals on their blog here.
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I’m surprised that Legend of Iya met its target. Its funding certainly picked up the pace in the last 2 days of the Kickstarter. Anyway, I’ve upvoted it on Steam Greenlight along with some other titles, including Two Brothers, Escape Goat 2, Rex Rocket, Soul Saga and some games that I don’t think have been mentioned in your articles.
I’ll wait and see with Phoenix. Their DRM idea seems similar to Minecraft’s, and I wont touch that one with a 10-foot pole.
If the offline single player save games are incompatible with the online one, why not just offer a separate DRM-free offline version?
I find it really disturbing that Project Phoenix has so many backers yet there isn’t one ounce of gameplay footage shown. I mean jeez, if all I had to do was create a kickstarter, have a meteor crashing to the ground with some opera music playing, say I was going to make an old style JRPG and people would give me $500k, I would have done that months ago!
And yeah, it doesn’t sound like a JRPG… but hey, they say a sucker is born every minute, right?