Kickstarter

Using a Pledge Manager

On our third Kickstarter, for the Rage of Montalbano deluxe expansion for SSO we decided to use a pledge manager for the first time. ...

Creators, Kickstarters, Previews and Reviews

I’ve seen quite a few discussions about Kickstarter and paid (P)Reviews, it seems to be a discussion that rolls around fairly endlessly,...

Turing Post Partum – game vs crowd

A few weeks ago we successfully funded our fourth Kickstarter project, namely for Turing, and so I’m going to write another Kickstarter...

Kickstarter isn’t any one thing

I’ve been trying to figure out quite how to present this blog for some time now, and in truth the underlying idea is something that I’ve...

Blame, fault and responsibility and Kickstarter creators

I’ve taken more shots at writing this blog than most that I post. That’s probably because my nature is often aggressive and discursive,...

Turing - Designer’s Diary Part 1 – Concept and intro

So, it’s been a weird 12 months, to say the least. My intention 12 months ago was to be well on the way to launching a storytelling game...

The Myth of Funding Early

Just to get the obvious bits out of the way first, I’m not saying that funding early is impossible or that it’s a bad thing when it...

Onwards sustainability

Creating products that are environmentally sound is not only good sense for the planet, its good business sense. For two reasons, one,...

Post Kickstarter: What success means, and what it doesn’t

I’ve been trying to figure out how best to phrase this blog, because I think that there’s an important perspective that prospective...

Kickstarter myths, legends and assumptions

To many Kickstarter feels like a mysterious place, one small game can make a million while bigger budget projects struggle to get funded,...