A Kickstarter Round Up

I really like how Kickstarter is changing the way projects are funded. I guess, it’s a good idea to make a regular round-up of several projects on this website I decided to pledge during the last days or weeks. If you still don’t know, what Kickstarter is, ask Wikipedia. Here a small excerpt:

Kickstarter is a crowd funding website for creative projects. Kickstarter has funded a diverse array of endeavors, ranging from indie films, music and comics to journalism, video games, and food-related projects. (…) Kickstarter facilitates gathering monetary resources from the general public, a model which circumvents many traditional avenues of investment. People must apply to Kickstarter in order to have a project posted on the site, and Kickstarter provides guidelines on what types of projects will be accepted. Project owners choose a deadline and a target minimum of funds to raise. If the chosen target is not gathered by the deadline, no funds are collected (this is known as a provision point mechanism). Money pledged by donors is collected using Amazon Payments.

If you still can’t connect to the idea, at least believe me that being part of a fundamental change in funding creativity can be addictive.

Some ongoing projects, I’ve pledged so far are -of course- the new Jane Jensen studio (if you’re into adventure games, it’s a must) and the very underrated project République (yes, another game). If you were into products like „In Memoriam“ or „eXperience 112“ you should check this out, too. We’re in desperate need of more money there. Another media project is Inner Dream. I like the idea, however for the moment, it’s just 14 backers and I doubt a little that it’ll make it.

More recently, I pledged for Dime. I love interactive novels. And I love comics. This has both in it. Just a pitty, that it’s not printed but just PDF. The look is pretty nice already, too:

If you like interactive books, give this one a try. 🙂

Rest assured, there is much more to come. Especially if you’re in games like myself (but feel free to browse Kickstarter, you’ll realize that soon, it’s like shopping at Amazon – just for a much better cause!). Just now, the two guys from Space Quest have launched their own Kickstarter-project (and yes, more about this, soon, too).