{"id":1533,"date":"2012-02-10T09:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1533"},"modified":"2018-07-10T08:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:20:47","slug":"double-fine-employs-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/double-fine-employs-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Fine Does Well on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1223 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DF-S1.jpg\" alt=\"DF-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>FEB.\u00a010, 2012, Securing funding for a large-scale classic\u00a0adventure game is not an easy endeavor, which drove its studio to solicit funds from game consumers themselves.\u00a0Although the initial goal was a\u00a0modest $400,000, within its first 24 hours\u00a0seeking funds, Double Fine raised more\u00a0than $1 million. By Feb. 20, nearly 60,000\u00a0people had contributed to boost the total\u00a0to $2 million. Those who donated $15 get\u00a0access to the PC game set to release on\u00a0the Steam service this fall. A $20,000 donation\u00a0category, however, adds in a night\u00a0of dinner and bowling with studio founder\u00a0Tim Schafer and the development team. A\u00a0$50,000 pledge will insure the donator becomes\u00a0a character in the game. The first\u00a0person to give $150,000 would walk away\u00a0with one of Schafer\u2019s last four remaining\u00a0triangle-boxed Day of the Tentacles in\u00a0original shrink-wrap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Kickstarter is basically a way the\u00a0online community can fund all kinds of art\u00a0projects: fi lms, theater, art, photography,\u00a0music, restaurants and all kinds of off-beat\u00a0projects. Among its categories it seems\u00a0games are probably the most popular.By mid-March Double Fine had raised a\u00a0whopping $3.3 million. The second best\u00a0product was funding for reprint of a comic\u00a0book that raised $1.2 million. However,amateur developers should not view this\u00a0as some magical new funding source. For\u00a0one, Tim Schafer is a well known developer\u00a0with an impressive track record. The\u00a0second most funded game on Kickstarter\u00a0raised $170,000 and that was a board game.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB.\u00a010, 2012, Securing funding for a large-scale classic\u00a0adventure game is not an easy endeavor, which drove its studio to solicit funds from game consumers themselves.\u00a0Although the initial goal was a\u00a0modest $400,000, within its first 24 hours\u00a0seeking funds, Double Fine raised more\u00a0than $1 million. By Feb. 20, nearly 60,000\u00a0people had contributed to boost the total\u00a0to $2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123,78],"tags":[424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16455,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/16455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}