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Kickstarter recaps "groundbreaking" year of 2012
Posted: 09.01.2013 04:20 by JonahFalcon Comments: 4
Kickstarter had quite a year in 2012, becoming the poster child for crowdfunding with several high profile projects.

According to the service, 2,241,475 people pledged a total of $319,786,629 USD, successfully funding 18,109 projects. This averaged out to $606.76 per minute. Breaking it down further, Kickstarter revealed that 570,672 people backed two or more projects and 50,047 people backed ten or more projects. 452 generous people backed 100 or more projects (though they may have just pledged $1 to many of them.)

Videogames alone in Kickstarter raised over $83M, though music projects had the most funded projects with 5,067. 17 projects raised $1 million+ in 2012, including such projects as Double Fine Adventure, Wasteland 2, Project Eternity, Elite: Dangerous, and Star Citizen - not to mention the Ouya console.

Not bad for a service that began three years ago.
Source: Kickstarter

Comments

By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jan 09, 2013
nocutius
Yay for kickstarter!

I love how crowdfunding is making it bigger every year, it's basically a new spring for PC gaming. Finally all those niche games are getting some love again :).
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jan 09, 2013
JonahFalcon
It's not just games. I backed a steampunk TV show.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Jan 09, 2013
nocutius
I know it's not limited to gaming but my interests kinda are limited :)

I'll still correct myself: crowdfunding in general is an awesome thing and I love it :)
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 09, 2013
herodotus
I still just back the one guy in his garage Indie Dev. Might get around to Kickstarter one day.