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Project gets $49,972 out of $50,000 goal. Creator says "clearly there simply isn't that much interest in building the kind of game I envisioned." o.O;
by zachinglis 14y ago
Project gets $49,972 out of $50,000 goal.
Creator says "clearly there simply isn't that much interest in building the kind of game I envisioned."
o.O;
- johnpmayer 14y agoWell, that is only enough money for a single programmer to work 9-5 for somewhere between 6-12 months.
- taytus 14y agoYeah, but that's the money they were asking for.
- vacri 14y agoThe bare minimum. If there was a lot of interest, it would have been easily covered.
- eropple 14y agoThe thing is, that's all you can ask for or you look like a scam artist or an idiot because you're over-asking. People, for better or worse, take into account how much you're asking for relative to what you promise, and fund or don't fund based on that. The unfortunate thing about game development Kickstarters is that the worst thing that can happen is that you make exactly your goal.
- zachinglis 14y agoYou also get relative too though. If you ask for $5000. Chances are you're going to get closer to that, than $50,000. If you ask for $500,000. Chances are you're going to get higher than the $5,000. Plenty of people have gone for the big dollars. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternity http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit... Granted it's Obsidian, but people still blew it out the water.
- eropple 14y agoThe overwhelming majority of game projects that ask for $500,000 would get $0. That's the core of the problem.
- zachinglis 14y agoas taytus said, that's what they asked for. If they needed more, they should have asked for more. But you can't ask for $50k, then get frustrated that's almost how much you get? You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.
- SomeCallMeTim 14y agoHe was hoping for a lot more. The previous attempt, he made over $100k, but had a $500k goal. He expected a lot more than $50k this time, not to miss the goal. He really has been working on this game forever, and will probably make another go at it eventually. He's a friend of mine, though I haven't spoken with him since yesterday before the KickStarter ended. If only he'd called, I would have put in the money myself, but I am led to believe that it wasn't that close until the last seconds. Asking a friend to put in $28 is easy; $828 is a bit more of a stretch.
- zachinglis 14y agoAhh. That sucks. Didn't realise it was his second time on Kickstarter. Sure he asked a few friends to help back it to improve the social proof throughout too. Where there's a will, there's a way. Hopefully he finds a not too difficult solution to this one.