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MENNONH

What I mean are the Kickstarters that don't seem to need public funding. I have seen a few of them, such as the great sounding idea of Space Command.

I understand wanting help getting the project started, but at the same time, there have been many many films made by actors and actresses with their own money. If you watch the video, you hear about person after person who are brilliant in their field, currently or previously working on big-budget products or well selling projects. So... Why use Kickstarter, other than the obvious?

This may not be the best example, as I am sure they will use A good portion of their money or lenders money for the movie, but I am sure you will get the gist of what I am asking.

BTW, some other interesting looking ones:
Kitaru

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ThompPetty

its to get extra funding that is otherwise hard to get. look at Xenonauts, they have money but the kickstarter is to get extra funds for the final push of the game, and to gather more revenue to add features that otherwise might not make it.

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MENNONH

I can understand this, but some of them seem that they have such high profile names on the project whom have plenty of money, that the 30-40k or so that is pledged is a drop in the bucket sometimes. I guess its also a good advertising scheme.

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Truepicasso

i don't know, it's good for extra funding but if some of them mess up game, they would lose many more than cash for production, and most of the people will never ever look at this studio games again, people likes to have a feeling that they helped to product something good, but if they fund something bad or medium they will be pissed off

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ET3D

It's true that these people most likely can pay for production themselves, but it's a lot easier to do a project when the financial risk isn't on you. When you're funding a project yourself, you always try to give the minimum that you think will make it good, and continue from there. Kickstarter gives people a chance to create something that's a lot better than what they envisioned, if the project goes a lot over funding.

Plus there's publicity and the ability to judge interest up front.

Edit: BTW, I'm totally sold on Space Command. Not that I'll pledge to it, simply because my Kickstarter budget is rather limited and I keep going significantly over it anyway, but I'll be sure to follow it. So thanks for posting about it.

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Closed 14 years ago by MENNONH.