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It’s taken Double Fine just a weekend’s time to amass nearly $2m for Pyschonauts 2 crowdfunding campaign on Fig. The project hit the $1m milestone less than a day afterit was announced at The Game Awards last week, and has added over $800,000 more since. At time of writing, the …
Read More »Schafer announces crowdfunding pitch for Psychonauts 2
Double Fine is looking for $3.3m to make a sequel to 2005 platformer Psychonauts. Tim Schafer announced the game at The Game Awards last night. Along with the money raised from crowdfunding platform Fig, the game will also be propped up by the studio itself and investors. In total an …
Read More »Double Fine crowdfunding Psychonauts 2 on Fig
Studio hoping to repeat $3.3m success of Broken Age
Read More »Dragon’s Lair: The Movie restarts crowdfunding campaign
The cinematic adaptation of animated adventure game Dragon’s Lair has rebooted its crowdfunding campaign – despite being halfway to its funding goal. The iconic laserdisc title is being revived by movie director and original Dragon’s Lair creator Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, who were seeking $550,000 on Kickstarter. That money …
Read More »New crowdfunding platform Fig now open to public backing
Unaccredited investors able to pledge up to $10,000 for next campaign
Read More »Anchors in the Drift’s Fig crowdfunding campaign falls short
5th Cell’s Fig crowdfuding project Anchors in the Drift has fallen short of meeting its funding goal of half-million dollar goal by nearly $400,000. Polygon reports on Fig’s first failure, having recently spoken with the new crowdfunding platform’s CEO Justin Bailey on what occurs when a campaign doesn’t meet its …
Read More »New ‘gamified’ crowdfunding platform BrightLocker launching next year
Site set up by industry veterans gets community involved in everything from conception to release
Read More »Ginx seeking £0.5m in crowdfunding to fuel growth
Games TV channel Ginx has taken to crowdfunding platform Crowdcube in an effort to boost its international presence. The firm is looking for 540,000 from backers to help fund new apps for PS4 and Xbox One, as well as growing the amount of global content it features. Available in the …
Read More »5th Cell hits Fig with free-to-play RPG Anchors in the Drift
Scribblenauts studio 5thCell has taken its upcoming action RPG Anchors in the Drift to Fig in hopes of crowdfunding the title. The campaignfor the free-to-play game is set at $500,000. As of this writing, the developer has raised just over $106,000 from just 111 backers, with still more than three …
Read More »Skullgirls dev debunks crowdfunding misconceptions
‘I’m kind of annoyed that so many crowdfunding drives at this point have had 90 per cent of their funding from investors already and just used it as an interest gauge’
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