Kickstarter has been around for awhile. It allows companies to tell people about a pitch or an idea they have for a product and ask individuals for donations to help meet a given monetary goal. If they meet the goal, they make the product. In addition, people who hit certain tiers of donations get certain rewards like a mention in the credits or getting to meet the developers.
After the interesting Notch and Tim Schafer meeting a few days ago, Double Fine announced yesterday that they were starting a Kickstarter project for a new adventure game. This was likely an idea they had at some point in the past but couldn't secure funding for. They hoped to get $400,000 for starting funds.
They hit $400,000 last night. As of this writing, they are up to almost $940,000, easily the most money a Kickstarter project has ever made in this amount of time.
This is an interesting thing to see happen. Double Fine's belovedness obviously had an impact on how quickly this goal was met but it is still quite impressive. It shows game developers just how much support they could get from fans if their fans liked them enough.
We might just be on the cusp of a new trend for some independent games that would have otherwise fallen through the cracks. Of course, how many indie developers have the clout that Double Fine does?
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