Kickstarter declares 2012 ‘the year of the game’
Seven of the eleven Kickstarter projects to surpass $1 million in funding belong to the games category. In a post entitled “The Year of the Game,” the crowd funding site reveals that games have gone from the eighth most-funded category in the site’s three-year history to the second.
This year has seen over $50 million pledged toward game projects on the site, with film and design several million behind at $42 million and $40 million, respectively. In 2011, games only had $3.6 million in funding and in 2010 it was at a mere $519,885.
The great change began in February, when Double Fine Adventure surpassed a million dollars in 24 hours and concluded with $3.3 million pledged. The most recent game to surpass a million was Uber Entertainment’s Planetary Annihilation. Head on over to Kickstarter for “the year of the game” breakdown.Kickstarter declares 2012 ‘the year of the game’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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