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This sounds like most video game Kickstarters. Unfortunately backers often have different expectations of how much a game should cost than developers. There ha

This sounds like most video game Kickstarters. Unfortunately backers often have different expectations of how much a game should cost than developers. There have been many Kickstarter projects where, if you realistically look at team size and development time you can figure out that the project doesn't have enough money to pay all team members a living wage, even if you're assuming they can live on minimum wage. I guess in those cases most of the team isn't getting paid or is working as part time contractors, and the people that are taking money are using it for subsistence. This is common with indie game projects.

fulafel 13y ago
In many cases Kickstarter is not the only source of funding.
Tloewald 13y ago
I don't know about most game kickstarters because I tend to ignore them, but this one has some very good prep work done, good concept, nice tech demos (video, but whatever), and superb artwork. But then the initial funding goal of $250,000 makes no sense to me. The people involved are clearly capable enough to earn $75k/year in Massachusetts, probably a lot more. Given the costs of developing something like this you'd burn through $250k in nothing flat. What then? Now if this were two guys saying they could get the game rough and ready in one year, I'd be more convinced. But they have a lot of mouths to feed. Or maybe if they're all in art school or something. They need to be more concrete about their plan. If it's "we will make this thing or die trying, and we'll ship in one year and we're eating ramen until we ship" then it might be convincing. But it seems too polished for that, so I'm thinking this is a hobby, and they'll take the $250k and diddle around for three years. But they're not even going to get $250k at this rate so it's all academic.

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This sounds like most video game Kickstarters. Unfortunately backers often have different expectations of how much a game should cost than developers. There ha

by Impossible 13y ago

fulafel 13y ago
In many cases Kickstarter is not the only source of funding.
Tloewald 13y ago
I don't know about most game kickstarters because I tend to ignore them, but this one has some very good prep work done, good concept, nice tech demos (video, but whatever), and superb artwork. But then the initial funding goal of $250,000 makes no sense to me. The people involved are clearly capable enough to earn $75k/year in Massachusetts, probably a lot more. Given the costs of developing something like this you'd burn through $250k in nothing flat. What then? Now if this were two guys saying they could get the game rough and ready in one year, I'd be more convinced. But they have a lot of mouths to feed. Or maybe if they're all in art school or something. They need to be more concrete about their plan. If it's "we will make this thing or die trying, and we'll ship in one year and we're eating ramen until we ship" then it might be convincing. But it seems too polished for that, so I'm thinking this is a hobby, and they'll take the $250k and diddle around for three years. But they're not even going to get $250k at this rate so it's all academic.