Green Mountain Gamers

For over a dozen years I’ve been tinkering with game design and a vague notion of someday publishing something within the gaming world. The rise of Kickstarter has shifted my tinkering up to the level of “earnest” and one of the thinks I realized when exploring the idea of using crowdsourcing is that I didn’t know what I was doing.

To fix that I decided to collect data from 150 RPG related crowdfunding projects that have occurred over the last year. The survey of all of those projects and the data collected has been very educational, give a much more clear evidence based view of how to run a crowdfunding campaign.

I’m in the process of breaking down the data and you can find the first part of a report here:

http://www.geekindustrialcomplex.com/articles/crowdfunding-report-part-1

Hopefully this can be of use to others and allow for more Vermont homegrown projects to spring into life.RPG

You’re welcome! I do hope this helps people out.
Part two of the 150 Crowdfunding Projects survey is now up.

https://sites.google.com/a/geekindustrialcomplex.com/www/articles/crowdfunding-report-part-2

In this one I focus on the backing behavior across the wide spread of funding levels. Then I look at how the creators shaped their funding levels with some common rewards being offered.

Enjoy!

The final piece in the RPG Crowdfunding Report is now in place with the release of the raw data used to generate the report.  It took awhile to collect it together from different files, clean it up and then wrestle with the Creative Commons license, but it’s done.  People have been asking for this information, and I found it a bit serendipitous when I watched just the other day Tim Berners-Lee on TED exclaim, “Demand raw data now.”  Well, here it is, fly and be free!

http://www.geekindustrialcomplex.com/articles/2011-2012-crowdfunding-survey-raw-data

Enjoy!