I was a big Starcraft geek back in the day. My Take: Now, I said I wasn’t much of a gamer… but I do love my real-time sims. The campaign itself feels like a game! 18. There are even speadsheet-like charts to make sense of the stretch goals. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a crowdfunding campaign with a greater volume of sheer information than Camelot Unchained. Of note here: 30,000 comments from a scant 8,000 backers. My Take: A board game based on the zombie apocalypse. It was a blend of online gameplay and tabletop gameplay that was primed for the Kickstarter experience. My Take: Over 17,000 backers pledged cash for this MMO trading card game from the same guys that created the World of Warcraft trading card game. They received pictures of everything from jewelry to sculptures and even a man sitting in a chair! 15. A pen that you can 3D print with, the genius here was that the product designers put the product in the hands of Etsy artists before the campaign and asked them to make things with it. My Take: This was a fun one that also received a lot of press. 3Doodler: The World’s First 3D Printing Pen Funded at £1.5 million, just over the goal of £1.25 million.
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My Take: Video game for PC and Mac and the highest-grossing Kickstarter campaign of all time funded in British pounds. My Take: A virtual reality headset for video games? What isn’t cool about that? Games just keep getting more realistic, and this seems to be the obvious next step in that process. My Take: A video game based on a mockery of video games. Now crowdfunding has helped resurrect the title over two decades later. My Take: I’m not a gamer, but apparently Wasteland creator Brian Fargo put out v1 of this game in the late 80’s. The design of the printer itself is very clean and sexy. My Take: 3D printing is hot right now, so it is no surprise that this campaign had success. My Take: A DRM-free copy of this game for a $15 pledge and they still raised over $3 million. Makes me wonder what Kickstarter would have done for pogs. My Take: The high tech stuff gets all the press, but it is kind of refreshing to see an analog game this high on the list. Also, the campaign generated had over 120,000 comments. Goodness knows what this campaign would have raised with more than 31 days. My Take: Gaming legend Keiji Inafune was the mastermind behind this project, and his notoriety drew huge funding from the crowd.
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My Take: If you want to know how to keep your contributors in the loop after your raise, the Project Eternity team could write the guide.
Good case study for future game devs launching a crowdfunding campaign. Great project, but more importantly a very smart project. My Take: Visually stunning, great soundtrack, dovetails nicely with Monte Cook’s tabletop game Numenera.
Good enough for third on the all-time list, Veronica Mars set the stage for future big-ticket movies on Kickstarter. My Take: You couldn’t have been on the Internet in the past six months or so and not seen, heard, watched or read something about this enormous project.
For anyone that values openness in their tech, this one makes you feel warm and fuzzy. Ouya does have a first rate management team. My Take: Since the raise, Ouya has raised more money and shipped consoles to lukewarm reviews. My Take: Stands firm as the de-facto darling of crowdfunding. Soon enough, Kickstarter will be able to boast 50 million-dollar campaigns! They’ve added 14 more million-dollar campaigns in the last four months. Interestingly enough, none of the top 10 have changed, which raises the question of whether that is due to backers becoming more aware of what crowdfunding is or a sheer lack of campaigns that can garner the interest of a Pebble or an Ouya. Since the last time we compiled this list some interesting trends are emerging, not the least of which is the sheer dominance of gaming-related campaigns on the Kickstarter platform – both tabletop games and video games.
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