Kickstarter reveals 2014 totals, nearly 2,000 games funded

MCV Staff 6th January 2015 Publishing

Kickstarter has released its annual report for 2014, showing that nearly 2,000 games were successfully funded during the period.

According to the report, 2014 Kickstarter projects raised a total of $529m – beating out the $480m pledged in 2013 by considerable length.

Music – Kickstarter’s most successfully funded category – saw 4,009 projects funded, films/movies followed with 3,846, then the publishing category at 2,064 and games at 1,980 projects successfully funded.

In terms of amount pledged, technology projects brought in $125m, design concepts earned $96.7m and games saw $89.1m from backers.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance was the top game project and third most successful out of all 2014 Kickstarter campaigns, raising 1,106,371 from 35,384 backers in the early part of the year.

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