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"I had never done a Kickstarter campaign, Steam Early Access or mobile game before"

Key developers leaving Molyneux's studio as crowdfunding god game struggles to achieve vision

Peter Molyneux’s Godus may never grow to be the game that was promised when it launched on Kickstarter. As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, designer Konrad Naszynski has in a series of posts on the Godus message boards expressed his frustration – and indeed, his cautious optimism – about what …

Epic Mickey designer reunites with Looking Glass co-founder Paul Neurath on Kickstarter project

Following its successful crowdfunding campaign, we speak to the developers behind this unqiue educational mobile game

Exploding Kittens has taken just over a week to become the most backed Kickstarter project in the crowdfunding site’s history. The Kickstarter campaign launched January 20th with a $10,000 goal. Eight days later and still with 21 days remaining, the project has seen 114,477 backers pledge $4,504,791 (at time of …

Exploding Kittens raises more funding than Oculus Rift

A new card game created by two Xbox designers has set the world of crowdfunding alight. Exploding Kittens is co-created by former Xbox chief design officer Elan Lee, former Xbox Entertainment principle art director Shane Small and The Oatmeal creator Matt Inman. Having sought just $10k in funding the game …

Funding platform Kickstarter has hit back against critics that claim crowdfunded video games are on the decline. The firm announced on January 6th that $89.1m was pledged towards successful ‘games’ projects, a drop of 15 per cent year-on-year. In fact, this number also includes board games and other such products …

$250,000 raised for upcoming RPG within first day on crowdfunding site