Haunts: Anatomy of a Kickstarter collapse

“I’m the new poster boy for Kickstarter cautionary tales,” says Rick Dakan, unabashedly jumping right into the reason for our interview. Dakan is the head of Atlanta’s Mob Rules Games, which was, until recently, developing Haunts, a competitive haunted house game funded via Kickstarter. Last week, Dakan announced on the Haunts Kickstarter page that the project has halted production and that Mob Rules’ two hired programmers have left.

All of this despite the fact that Mob Rules raised $28,000 on Kickstarter, $3,000 more than studio’s goal. So what happened?Continue reading Haunts: Anatomy of a Kickstarter collapseHaunts: Anatomy of a Kickstarter collapse originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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