While Kickstarter is amazing for physical products, I feel that it just isn't ideal for digital products (more specifically mobile apps). A couple of reasons:

While Kickstarter is amazing for physical products, I feel that it just isn't ideal for digital products (more specifically mobile apps). A couple of reasons: 1) Most mobile apps are $0-$3, so why pay $1-5 to support an app still in development when you could spend the same amount or less on a ready-to-use app right now? 2) The way the App Stores are currently set up, there isn't an easy way to give your Kickstarter supporters the paid app for free (which you would certainly want to do). Unless you can also come up with more tangible rewards in your game (tshirts with game logo, etc.) I think an app will likely end in an unsuccessful Kickstarter project. All that said... if all you want is a couple thousand bucks for a new macbook, one idea that MAY work is allow only large donations and include the supporters as sprites in your game. Just an idea.