So, you’ve successfully rallied hundreds of strangers to pay for your brilliant game idea on Kickstarter, IndieGoGo or some other crowdfunding site. Now you need to make the damn thing. But an even bigger problem looms after you develop and test Amazing Game X: getting it to everyone who wants it, including backers.
Well, this is handy. If you’re looking at doing a Kickstarter game for iOS and you want to distribute your games, for free, to your backers, Apple will now let you do this. All you need to do is ask!
Or a Play-Doh controller? Or doodles on a piece of paper? This unbelievable Kickstarter, launched by two MIT grad students, promises to create an invention kit that lets you turn just about anything into an electronic input device.
Sometimes video game Kickstarters just don’t take off. In fact, that’s most of the time. For every monumental success like Double Fine or Wasteland 2, there are 10 projects that remain undiscovered and unfunded.
Turns out not everybody is Tim Schafer. Though the creator of Grim Fandango set Kickstarter records earlier this year, raising over $US3 million for his point-and-click adventure game, most crowdfunded gaming projects aren’t nearly as successful.
So this slick space shooter from Sidhe came out of nowhere and just as mysteriously, we’re told it’s not actually in development. Which is kind of unacceptable, especially when phrases like “A modern take on the classic space combat and exploration game Elite” are thrown around. Fortunately, Sidhe hasn’t left us with mouths completely agape.
Adventure games have changed a lot over the past 20 years. And now, thanks largely to Tim Schafer’s super-successful $US3.4-million Kickstarter, we’re about to get a whole lot more of them.
After the monstrous success of the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter campaign, it’s impossible to escape talk of video game development powered by the internet’s largest crowdfunding destination. Part of all the buzz comes from the perception that there’s a lot of money out there that people want to contribute to help produce entertainment that they’d enjoy. How much money, you ask? In the month of March alone, the number ballooned past $US9 million, according to one estimate.
