I am actually in this situation (roughly speaking). Although I have a bit of a head start, I just signed a deal for $30k of funding. It is designed to carry m

I am actually in this situation (roughly speaking). Although I have a bit of a head start, I just signed a deal for $30k of funding. It is designed to carry me six months (i.e. $60k salary for half a year). I know this is not that low by some startup salaries (I lived off $35k/year in my first startup), but I have many more expenses now like a car payment. I am not building a "finished" product per se, but a prototype to demo for Kickstarter and raise my next round of funding. Six months is a fairly short amount of time to build even a game prototype, but if all else fails I have $20k saved up myself and I can also sell of my car. My project is at gavanw.com if you are interested.