Kickstarter Pledges Pass $50M for Video Games in 2012 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 September 2012 / 7,386 Views
Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler and data engineer Fred Benenson has announced that funding for video games leads all other categories in 2012. The total amount pledged passes the $50 million mark. This is a huge increase over the $3.6 million pledged in 2011. Other categories include Film with $42 million pledged, Design with $40 million, Music with $25 million, and Technology with $16 million.
"Last week, Reaper Miniatures Bones and Planetary Annihilation became the 10th and 11th Kickstarter projects to cross $1 million in funding," read a blog post on the official Kickstarter site. Both projects belong to the Games category. In fact, seven of the eleven projects that have crossed $1 million this year are games, and an eighth is a comic about a game. This has been the year of the game on Kickstarter."
"The catalyst for the category’s growth happened in February, when a video game project called Double Fine Adventure raised $1 million in its first 24 hours. The gaming world hasn’t looked at Kickstarter the same way since. Double Fine signaled to game developers that they could use Kickstarter to do something that previously seemed impossible: make the game they wanted without outside interference."
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Kickstarter is amazing. Just imagine how much pledges a spiritual sequel to Age of Empires 1/2 made by Rick Goodman and Bruce Shelley would make? It would freaking explode.
What do you mean pledged? I don't understand this article. This is poorly written, I don't know what's going on.
Kickstarter is the best tool for making something that a lot of people want happen. There are a number of video game sequels I would pay for if they came up. It also shows the publishers what's viable so they don't have to take risks on niche genres.
I've donated to have a music commission made, and it turned out great plus the guy managed to get enough to travel to SXSW this year with his band. Overpriced reward tiers are a much better solution than pure charity or straight asking for commissions.
Great site and great idea ! Maybe the future of video games ! Imagine in a few years that all original IPs would come from such sites and sequels founded conventionally.
I actually just donated to a game on Kickstarter a few weeks ago. Anyone else donate/excited for Castle Story?
Yes, I love how Castle Story looks! A refined Minecraft in the way I like. I love how they implemented the building part, that it's a bit slow like in an RTS.
Gamers supporting gamers. It's nice to see.
How long til someone starts a FFVII HD remake kickstarter page for Square-Enix, who said its too expensive to make? lololol
wasn't the ouya like $10million or so
$8,596,475 to be exact.
@huiii It's listed in the video games section on Kickstarter, so I'm sure they used it in this calculation.
aye that pile of junk roped in 8.5million dollars of hipster idiot money who believed julie saying that console gaming was dead.... 100k ps3s and xbox360s per week would like a word with her.
If this includes all money pledged under video games it also includes the 185k dollars that were pledged to tropes vs women in video games.... because throwing money to someone who points out that females take on female roles in games is wrong makes all the wrongs of sexism go away and it sure makes them feel better about themselves. Oh just read that she's been blocking everyone who requests info about what she's done with the money too bar buying herself about 1000 games with it.
Poor math and English skills, no commas, deliberately insulting people(on your reply to usrevenge) = angry teenager.
takes one click to see my age, also find it rather funny you consider being a teenager a bad thing when your profile shows you to be 19?, please keep to facts not just opinions, thanks. also would love to know what maths you figure is flawed given she released a picture with her and pretty much every game this generation featuring someone female.
