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‘I want it to be a big part of how we make games in the future,’ says Double Fine founder following $3.3m campaign for Psychonauts 2
Read More »Psychonauts 2 crowdfunding cash held up by approval checks
Equity investment share of money raised through Fig must undergo additional clarification by US SEC
Read More »Psychonauts 2 Fig campaign raises $3.3m
Hotly anticipated sequel fully funded with five days left for crowdfunding campaign
Read More »Revenue for Kickstarter games recovers in 2015 – report
Kickstarter games revenue has rebounded from its crash in 2014, according to a new report – though that hasn’t equated to more developers seeing success on the crowdfunding platform. A recent analysis by consultant Thomas Bidaux posted on Games Industry finds projects under Kickstarter’s games category brought in $41.6m thus …
Read More »Psychonauts 2’s Fig crowdfunding campaign already near $2m
Long-awaited sequel generates $1m in less than 24 hours
Read More »Psychonauts 2 Fig campaign brings in nearly $2m over weekend
It’s taken Double Fine just a weekend’s time to amass nearly $2m for Pyschonauts 2 crowdfunding campaign on Fig. The project hit the $1m milestone less than a day afterit was announced at The Game Awards last week, and has added over $800,000 more since. At time of writing, the …
Read More »Double Fine crowdfunding Psychonauts 2 on Fig
Studio hoping to repeat $3.3m success of Broken Age
Read More »New crowdfunding platform Fig now open to public backing
Unaccredited investors able to pledge up to $10,000 for next campaign
Read More »Anchors in the Drift’s Fig crowdfunding campaign falls short
5th Cell’s Fig crowdfuding project Anchors in the Drift has fallen short of meeting its funding goal of half-million dollar goal by nearly $400,000. Polygon reports on Fig’s first failure, having recently spoken with the new crowdfunding platform’s CEO Justin Bailey on what occurs when a campaign doesn’t meet its …
Read More »5th Cell hits Fig with free-to-play RPG Anchors in the Drift
Scribblenauts studio 5thCell has taken its upcoming action RPG Anchors in the Drift to Fig in hopes of crowdfunding the title. The campaignfor the free-to-play game is set at $500,000. As of this writing, the developer has raised just over $106,000 from just 111 backers, with still more than three …
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