Kickstarter

Post Kickstarter: What success means, and what it doesn’t

I’ve been trying to figure out how best to phrase this blog, because I think that there’s an important perspective that prospective creat...

Kickstarter myths, legends and assumptions

To many Kickstarter feels like a mysterious place, one small game can make a million while bigger budget projects struggle to get funded,...

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Setting a Price Point for Kickstarter

There are few decisions that will more seriously affect the long-term prospects of your game’s success, and in turn the success of your b...

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Comment boards and your Kickstarter community.

An active Kickstarter comments board boosts your project in Kickstarter’s algorithms. But attracting people to see a comments board with...

SSO: Rage of Montalbano Kickstarter Post-Partum

We’ve recently (as in at the time of writing this within 48 hours) successfully funded our third Kickstarter, this time for SSO: Rage of ...

The Kickstarter brief: Design

I recently wrote a blog about games with roll and move mechanics on Kickstarter which seemed to garner two general schools of response, o...

Reviews, Previews, Kickstarter and Independent Designers

I want to make this post because I feel there is a gap between the perception and the reality of the world of reviewers and previewers in...

What size project are you?

There is a lot of advice and opinions on Kickstarter creation in the world, and a lot of it is directly contradictory. Further, a lot of ...

Fulfilment, a self-fulfilling prophecy

The single number one reason that successful Kickstarters become very unsuccessful Kickstarters is almost certainly problems with fulfilm...

Funding As Failure

I’ve been noticing a trend on Kickstarter recently that I consider extremely worrying, and that’s the perception of backing as failure. ...

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