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jovanmilic97

Its formed as a collaboration of Double Fine, inXile, Indie Fund and Obsidian

Fig is a curated platform for funding and developing games with the direct support of passionate players like you. Our platform brings together rewards-based crowdfunding and investing to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development.

By launching a Fig campaign, game studios can combine these two powerful methods of raising funds while retaining creative control and offering fans new ways to get involved. By supporting a campaign, fans journey with each studio as they go from development to launch (and beyond), all while gaining real insights and transparency into the business of making games.

Together we can grow the games ecosystem, inspire new community-informed, investor-backed titles, and provide a creative platform for studios to bring their ideas to the people who matter the most -- their fans.

1st game being on this platform is Outer Wilds from Mobius Digital which earned 61000 dollars of 125000 its asking for
https://www.fig.co/campaigns/outer-wilds

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SquireZed

Its formed as a collaboration of Double Fine...

Well, I've lost all faith in it already! Someone who doesn't understand crowd funding running a crowd funding platform? Cool!

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Nanabanana

1st impression is ... not good.

  • For regular supporters, this doesn't seem to offer anything over good ol' kickstarter. Which means it starts at a disadvantage there.

  • For Investors.... well they ask for a lot more money as mininum, and the specifics are hidden behind a convenient wall of red tape, the key point of which is that you must be well on your way to becoming a millionaire, or be backed by a multi-million worth organization.
    So I guess that's not interesting to most of us.

It might be worth it for developers if they can get more money from more serious investors (and don't have to give back too much of the profits to those investors)., but wether that's really the case in practice remains to be seen

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Atarlock

125k for that crap? Another indie crap which soon will start giving away 10000 keys if you like their facebook page or steam group? I'll stick with Star Citizen which asked 4 times (500k) more than these guys are asking, but the game is 100 more promising! And in the end they ended up with 2.1 mil dollars.

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