In 2011 Kickstarter raises $1.1 Million for Board and Card games

23 Oct

Posted by Richard Bliss as Card Games, CCGs, Classic Board Games, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, Other, RPGs, War Games

Many in the board game industry are beginning to hear about Kickstarter. It is a micro funding site that allows a person to post a project, set a money goal to be raised, and set a deadline for how long it takes to raise the money.

One of the first games to make it big on Kickstarter was Eminent Domain which raised more than $40,000 in November of 2010. This year 61 Games, which includes board games, card games, RPG, and Dice games have successfully been funded with another 17 currently attempting to successfully fund.

The total so far for the year as off October 23, 2011 has been $1.1 million in total successful funding. Here is a chart that shows the success of the funding by month.

Kickstarter raises $1.1 million through Oct 23 2011

Currently there is approximately $185,000 that has successfully been funded but the time limit has expired, which will boost the total to over $1.3 million so far for the year.

 

3 Comments

1. Gary Sonnenberg on 23.10.2011 at 21:58

   I love the Kickstarter concept. I recently received the re-creation of the board game Montage via Kickstarter and am very glad I contributed to the cause.

2. NutForge Games on 24.10.2011 at 21:39

   The question is whether this success is sustainable in the long-term.

   I believe we have yet to see it’s full potential — both because of a growth in audience, as people find out about Kickstarter as a medium, and because new campaigns often pick up on successful features from past campaigns.

   Another issue is that of quality when it comes to board games; not campaign quality, but gameplay quality. Kickstarter staff screens for the former, but couldn’t possibly handle the latter. As the medium becomes saturated, will an increase in mediocrity (if that becomes the case) diminish the effectiveness of the medium? That remains to be seen.

   We’re hoping to leverage KS through not only high quality campaigns, but professional marketing campaigns and top-notch products (or first project being a party game called FrankenDie). This kind of approach seems to be what has separated the $5K projects from the $30K+ projects (that and the fame of the producer before the campaign).

   We’re excited to see the maturing of the medium, both for ourselves and for other (self)publishers. Being more than an spectator in the process makes it all the more interesting :)

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