Games top Kickstarter successes in 2012

Well, holy crap.

The real surprise was tabletop miniature war games, that for some reason get lumped in with computer games.  At least 10% (if not 20%) of that 83 million went to them.

Reaper Miniatures Bones raised 3.5 million alone (11430% of its target no less) and was the forth most successful Kickstarter ever.

Kingdom Death: Monster, kicked of this year with a cool 2 million and some beautiful miniatures to boot.

Don't get me wrong games done well but the real props should go to the wargamers, despite being the smallest of niche communities we rocked it. 

Let's not forget there are a lot of kickstarter projects that fail!

Yet another example of how popular video games are getting. This is very good to hear. Only means good things for the industry.

Not to mention the success console developers have had over there- Ouya broke tons of records and GameStick looks on course to at least triple what they were looking to raise as well.  This is all good news for the industry as a whole.

I was unaware that Kickstarter help fund other projects other than video games. I had to wonder how successful the non-gaming projects are.

Not surprised, but the more games, the better. 

Star Citizen earned over 6 million, but since you could also pay through their website and/or Kick Starter, they do not count the whole amount.

How many videogames wouldn't get second notice from the big publishers. So kickstarter a least provides a chance indie games can at least have a chance at being made. or long foggetten games from era's past. Like SNES version of Nightmare Busters can actually be created and released in physical form. But at the same time a kickstarter project a miss the target by as little as $28.00. Still it is worth it to take the chance for small and indie game creators.

These numbers are inaccurate, at least regarding "The game gleaning the most contributions." If you had said contributors and not contributions, then that might be correct, but as it stands this isn't right. 

I'm not saying this takes the cake because I don't know all of the numbers, but Obsidian's Kickstarter grossed more funds. Obsidian's Project Eternity raised $3,986,929 from 73,986 Kickstarter backers and $324,650 from roughly 5,698 unique PayPal backers. Even with out Paypal backers, it's still more than Double Fine's Kickstarter.

Either way it's still amazing and Kickstarter is quite fantastic, but the article isn't accurate.

what about the strangest, and fasted money gaining game on kickstarter? The strange paradox universes of Homestuck. gained all its 2 million in just two days

"561,000 backers contributed $83 million to 2,796 submitted projects,
though only 911 managed to reach the set target of donations" The failed projects had to call 911, because they would be in a critical state without that backing. 

Games are expensive, but people are also willing to donate to something that expensive. 83 out 320 million is a bit more than 1/4, though 2796 out of 18000 is a bit less than 1/6, so the projects were more expensive than the average kickstarter project. 

I have several games I'm looking forward to coming from kickstarter and several others that I'm interested in finding out how they turned out.

what if they just keep the money and dont make the game

There was only one kickstarter success in 2012 and to date as far as I'm aware and that is FTL. Nothing else has yet made it to release and for the one success we also have one failure, Haunts. I've funded a few projects myself but people need to calm down about crowd funding and be realistic about what it has actually achieved rather than what it might.

"he game gleaning the most contributions was Tim Schafer's upcoming Double Fine adventure title, which managed to generate $3.3 million" didn't project etrnity get 3.9 million $ or does he mean the game that exceded it's target the most?

hehehe but Homestuck reached and passed its goal in record time

A breath of fresh are for some game makers.

Just push out some quality games and I'll happily part with my cash.

I guess that not all of them fail for being $50 short.

Congrats

Star Citizen was already pre-backed by private investors set up by Roberts, so I don't think the 5.1 really counts.

Surprised they didn't mention Star Citizen.  It only got 2.1mil on Kickstarter but got another 5.2mil on its own site. 

Yeah don't forget about Project Eternity, which received 3.9 million dollars from Kickstarter alone.

can any one kickstart me ? :D