"With his funding, he planned to make the game available for free on the web, and Crawford suspects that's one of the main reasons why his campaign went down in

"With his funding, he planned to make the game available for free on the web, and Crawford suspects that's one of the main reasons why his campaign went down in flames." Perhaps of note is that Kickstarter's model is based off the Street Performer Protocol, originally intended as a solution for getting private funding for free, public goods. There is a whole Open Software category on Kickstarter, so clearly "free" is not a reason his campaign failed. Quite frankly, it failed because his vision put "simulation" before having an actually engaging game.