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Kickstarter 2011 Year in Review – $2 Million Funded
03 Jan
Posted by Richard Bliss as Card Games, CCGs, Modern Board Games, RPGs
2011 was the year of the independent game designer finding Kickstarter and Purple Pawn’s top game related story of the year. See our list of the top 10 stories. The year started off modestly, with only a few projects and a little bit of money but then in August, during the height of the board game convention season, Kickstarter was found. A total of 110 board game, card game, dice game, and RPG projects were successfully funded in 2011. This number is not exact, since the definition of a game project evolved during the year. For example, decks of cards with fancy new art work will no longer be covered as part of gaming projects since it falls under the Art category more than the gaming category.
The year ended with with $2,027,276 successfully funded for game related projects. December alone was $618,528 dollars, with D-Day Dice representing $172,000 of that total.
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Afraid you missed one: My FAR WEST Adventure Game raised $49,324 in August:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Adamant/far-west-western-wuxia-mashup-adventure-game
…which I believe qualifies it for the Top 10, in between Eaten by Zombies and Flash Point Fire Rescue.
Gareth,
I didn’t miss it. I struggled with this project during its entire time it was seeking funding. Ultimately I didn’t include it because it was difficult to determine at the time what this was funding. A large percentage of the funding, nearly $13,000, went towards membership in the society that gave backers DVDs, Books, T-Shirts, and other items as members of the Far West Society. The video and information was all about the experience of Far West as a Transmedia experience and very very little to do with the game itself.
I did include it for a time but ultimately left it out. There is certainly a case for including it but I choose not to.
With that said, it certainly looks very cool and I’m looking forward to the other Kickstarter projects that will be coming out to fund the expansion of the Far West world
Richard,
Far West is clearly funding for an RPG. The other stuff is bonus content for those of us interested enough to fund at that level. Just like the other entries on your list. Pretty much everyone gives away something that is not the game at high levels. You should modify your graph and enter a correction.
Thanks,
Scott
Richard,
You have a typo there in your reply. I think it’s spelled “Sorry we missed your game, thanks for the reply.”
Miles, thank you for that. You comment really goes straight to the issue.
Gareth, sorry for not placing your game on the list. I will correct my mistake immediately.
Scott, thanks for the comment and helping me see how I missed this one.
I appreciate that.
Thank you, Richard.