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To fund the documentary project, Schafer turned to Kickstarter, a website that uses crowdsourcing to churn up modest amounts of cash(anywhere from a hundred to, in rare cases, a few hundred...
Kickstarter, the crowdsourcing website dedicated to the idea that "a good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide" and powered by an all-or-nothing format (you meet your goal...
“This could bring a wonderful dynamic change to our industry,” said Brian Fargo, chief executive of InXile Entertainment, in an interview. “It is a very exciting time to be a developer...
Tilt World utilizes playsourcing to create real world impact. Playsourcing occurs when the fun of games is used as a source of human motivation to help people change themselves and change their...
But UCLA isn't alone in the pursuit of crowdsourced science. At the University of Washington, developers have created a game called FoldIt, where players wrestle with ways in which proteins...
To date, Kickstarter's website boasts 24,000 successfully funded projects with many surpassing their goals, others generating millions of dollars. Quest for Infamy co-founder Steven...
Double Fine Productions, the San Francisco-based video game developer behind Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, today broke a number of crowdfunding records in its wildly successful effort to fund a new point-and-click adventure game.
Using Kickstarter, the game development studio raised $950,000 USD in the 24-hour window following the project posting — well over its initial goal of $400,000. At the outset, Double Fine allotted one month of time to reach that funding goal. At the time of writing, the total amount raised stands at $1,001,988 from 26,000 backers.
Brian Fargo, chief executive of video game development studio inXile entertainment, successfully raised over $1 million through Kickstarter to create a sequel Wasteland, his 1988 post-apocalyptic role-playing game.
Here are some of the more noteworthy unfinished Kickstarter video game initiatives that are currently in the mix right now: *Carmageddon - an attempt to revive 1997′s classic PC-exclusive...
Gambitious today launched its unique hybrid crowdfunding platform for video games,accepting both fan donations and equity investments.Gambitious' launch portfolio includes seven new projects...
"We want OUYA to be here for a long time to come," said Uhrman. "The message is clear: people want OUYA. We first heard this from crowdfunding website Kickstarter backers who...
Developed at the University of Washington, Foldit has generated buzz in the scientific community for its success in using crowdsourcing via the online game to make key discoveries. For example,...
EDWorks has been partnering with TopCoder to bring educational games to three of their schools. Over the course of a four week period, students at three EDWorks’ partner schools are competing in...
When video game developer Double Fine raised $3.3 million with its Kickstarter campaign last March, the entire industry took notice, scrambling to harness the crowd’s wisdom and cash. Valve Corporation and GamesPlanet just jumped on the bandwagon, revealing their own crowdsourcing efforts: GamesPlanet Lab and Steam Greenlight.
Ardent fans and many industry veterans of the computer game industry advocate that the general lack of creativity in game development has caused a rippling effect that leaves leading and blooming game developers clinging to the hope of making the next “big come back” to wow gamers. Sadly, this has been far from reality for some; and in a world where only the best game developer gets to take home the bigger sales check, many have decided to blow open the doors of their own restricted environment to welcome a more democratic approach in game design.
The project, currently dubbed Double Fine Adventure, will be headed by game developing legends Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert, and will be a point-and-click adventure game released on Steam....
This week, entrepreneur Paul Hanraets and his team launched Gambitious, an equity-based crowdfunding platform for video games. Gambitious allows investors to purchase a stake in video game projects posted on the platform, promising its users a share of the profits should the game succeed.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting the most successful, interesting, and innovative crowdfunding campaigns of 2012. Yesterday, we featured the Pebble smart watch. Today, we continue our look back at the most-funded campaigns of the year with the Ouya video game console.
In the latest episode of Bonus Round, Gametrailers’ weekly show about the video game industry, gaming experts Seamus Blackley, Marcus Beer, and Jeff Cannata discuss crowdfunding for video games — specifically, the continuing viability of Kickstarter as a funding mechanism for both indie and mainstream game developers.
An enterprising initiative aims to take advantage of the proliferation of low cost gaming hardware in the developing world to increase education opportunities amongst the poor.
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