In early October, a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the development of the game Vasilisa and Baba Yaga was successfully completed. The game developers from the St. Petersburg studio Baba Yaga Games received 960 thousand rubles from sponsors. App2Top talked to Asya Yurina, co-founder of the studio, about how the campaign was going.

The founder of the indie studio UnifiQ Games analyzed the Kickstarter campaign of his game Operation Outsmart. It turned out to be a complete failure — in two weeks it was possible to collect barely 10% of the desired amount. However, the developer did not despair and decided to tell about the main mistakes he made during crowdfunding.Operation Outsmart

This year, users supported video game developers on Kickstarter for a total of $22.9 million. The continuation of the Russian RPG Pathfinder got into the top three in terms of fees. However, this is still several times less than the crowdfunding fees of board games.This became known from the material that was published on the Polygon portal.

For the creators of Darkest Dungeon, yesterday turned out to be a success. Along with new details about the sequel, the developers launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a board game. During the day, she has already collected more than $ 1 million.

The role-playing game Eiyuden Chronicle attracted 46 thousand backers on Kickstarter, who have already given developers $ 4.5 million. This is almost 900% more than the initially requested amount, and only two games showed the best result before.A fundraising campaign for the development of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, a role—playing game inspired by classic JRPGs, has ended on Kickstarter.

In less than a month, the domestic game Black Book, made in the setting of Russian folk tales and epics, collected $ 103 thousand using the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. This is almost three times more than the originally set goal.

On April 28, the Frozen Flame game from Dreamside Interactive was released on the Fig crowdfunding platform. She scored the required amount in the first week — $ 50 thousand. This is the first Russian project on the platform and one of the few domestic desktop AA games. We talked about the history of development, personnel hunger, working with investors and, of course, entering Fig with the owner of the studio Sergey Korolev.

Isometric role-playing games are still successfully gaining funds on Kickstarter. In February-March, a new classic RPG in the Pathfinder universe attracted a solid $2.05 million for the service.

Gearbox Studio raises money for Homeworld 3 with the help of crowdfunding. Something like this can be expected from smaller studios, but not from the authors of Borderlands.

The authors of Star Citizen continue to raise money for their cosmosim. On August 24, they hosted a dinner for backers who had invested at least $1,000 in the project. Nuance: the guests paid $275 for admission.

The Fig crowdfunding platform has introduced a new Open Access financing program. It allows you to raise money for projects without time limits — unlike the program used, for example, Kickstarter.

Over 10 years, Kickstarter backers have donated a total of $1 billion to gaming projects. Of these, only $236.5 million went to video games (excluding mobile titles).

This is 8% less compared to 2017.

The co-founder of the independent studio Snapshot Games, David Kaye, told how his company managed to attract almost $2.2 million through crowdfunding and pre-orders for the development and promotion of the Phoenix Point tactical strategy from the author of the famous XCOM game franchise, Julian Gallop.

The Russian indie game Stoneshard has raised more than $ 100 thousand on Kickstarter. How did she manage it, App2Top.ru I asked the publisher of the project, HypeTrain Digital.

Independent developer David Murray funded the creation of a retro strategy Planet X3 using the Kickstater platform, collecting the required $ 30 thousand in a few hours. Two days later, the campaign budget doubled the original goal and reached $70 thousand.

VKontakte will allow users to finance projects using crowdfunding. To do this, VK launched the “Goals” service. It is available to the administrator of any community on the social network.

It took seven days for the pixel “bagel” Stoneshard to get $30 thousand on the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. Thanks to this, it became possible to release it as part of early access on Steam this year.

Atari intends to release the RollerCoaster Tycoon economic strategy on the Nintendo Switch. To do this, the company launched a crowdfunding company. Atari expects to raise from $10 thousand to $1 million on it.