In a blog post on Kickstarter it was revealed that 10,000 games projects have been funded by users that have helped backed projects and helped the developers bring their projects to life. Now, this statistic includes both digital video games, and physical board/card games.
Kickstarter was launched back in 2009, in fact I remember seeing it first in 2010 when someone on an old film maker forum I was a member of was looking for funding to help them create a short film. It was in 2009 though that Eric Berlin started the very first Games Project funding for a Crossword Puzzles! project. The target goal was $1,500 and it exceeded that by reaching, $2,265 with 163 backers.
Now in 2016, Kickstarter has reached the 10,000 Games Projects being successfully funded. The statistics are as followed.
- 2.46 Million Kickstarter users have backed a Games Project
- 2,45 Million users in total have pledged $613 Million towards Game Projects
- 1.45 Million of the 2.45 million users have backed more than one
The Kickstarter blog features some of the successful projects, and as it happens one title that was one we have covered here at B3. Hyper Light Drifter is one, a SNES inspired title that originally wanted, $27,000 and ended up earning $645,158.
There are also two other titles that were featured on the blog that have only just begun their crowdfunding journey, and as it happens, those titles are also a part of our new BOOT series in which we look at projects currently in crowdfunding stages. Pine, and All Walls Must Fall,
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