14 DAY TRIAL // According to analyst data, close to 50 percent more games were funded through Kickstarter during 2013, as compared to 2012.
The volume in pledges also soared, and almost 30 percent more money being pledged to the 446 successful game campaigns registered during 2013.
There was a lot of talk when Double Fine's Broken Age Kickstarter campaign met its incredible success, that the spike in funding was not more than a fluke and that the funding volume will decrease as the platform became more popular and projects started massively failing.
Which was not the case, as 2012 saw a lot of big names raise decent amounts of money to fund many nostalgic titles, following in Broken Age's footsteps. Which lead to another concern, that the crowdfunding platform will be the go-to place for massive reboots of already established franchises.
This was also not the case, as ICO Partners' Thomas Bidaux details in his 2013 Kickstarter analysis. There have been a lot more successful campaigns for small scope indie titles in 2012, and 2013 further tipped the scales toward smaller productions.
That is not to say that bigger budget games were not a strong presence, as the number of large productions having successfully met their goal also saw an increase in numbers over 2012.
“And to me, this looks like good news overall. It shows a wider selection of projects can get funded via Kickstarter, and not just the very cheap or the very famous,” concluded Bideaux.
“Kickstarter is a platform that is perfect for projects that don’t aim for the moon, but promise a quality experience for the amount they ask for. Aim for the smallest amount that guarantees you can deliver your project,” he added concerning Kickstarter's 24 percent funding success ratio for video games.
With board games having an almost equal presence in terms of funding volume, it seems that things are looking better and better for gamers.