$400,000 Tim Schafer wanted to earn his new computer game - on the Crowdfunding platform kick start. A little later a million on the Konto.Eigentlich was already Tim Schafer wanted to collect only $400,000 for his new computer game. But not 24 hours later were already one million to the account of double fine productions, and it is more and more. The production is secured and the social financing platform has a new record kick start.
Wednesday noon California time double fine adventure on the crowd Finance page Kickstarter.com of the public presented his project to Schafer and asked for donations, so that the project can be realized. Tribute is planned in the 1990s.
At that time, the so-called point & click adventure experienced their heyday on the PC. Click on some well hidden objects on the screen, the player solves tasks or collects information thus always to continue the story.
The deal proposed by Schafer of Gaminggemeinde is quite simple: who donates at least $15, a copy of the game from the Internet load, as soon it will be ready. Who gives $50,000, finds himself as his own character in the game, in between and beyond any amount is possible and the commitment is sweetened with various specialties.
There is a dinner followed by bowling night with the whole team and the heads for $20,000. In addition, all supporters of the project get a monthly video viewing in the progress of the development work in the offices in San Francisco. You are online with the developers and with each other, looking chat as beta tester errors and make suggestions for improvements.
Interest, a profit-sharing or there are no shares such as in a classical venture finance on kickstarter. In the case of double fine productions, surplus capital invested according to by Schafer, to develop additional versions, about for Apple's Mac or mobile versions for iPhone and iPad. Nothing will be refunded.
The success of the game is a manna for Kickstarter that retain five percent of donated funds as Commission. 2008 in New York City founded and among other things financed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey the page was in April 2009. Since then, she changed the world of industrial development.
Film or music and book projects up to iPad wrist watches or non-profit projects can here everything without recourse by banks or venture capitalists financed. At least in theory. Because many projects never reach the set target of capitalization and find little trailer.
But trend products like the iPod nano watches matrix and LunaTik had already crossed the 900,000 dollar mark. Matrix developers Scott Wilson, a former creative director at Nike, is so convinced of kick start that he already has put online its next idea. His LunaTik touch pen should at the same time serve on Tablet PC as a stylus and at your fingertips than normal ballpoint pen. After all 289.000 dollars almost 4,000 donors were willing to invest in the pen.
But the King of kick start is called Tim Schafer. On California time Thursday afternoon around 28,000 donor together had shot up 1.071.811 dollars, the mass of approximately 15,000, between 15 and 30 dollars. Basically they have bought just have you ever blind play. Where the journey will end, is still completely open: in 32 days much can happen.
Published in Handelsblatt
