Kickstarter's $2M
Today, in five hours, two different Kickstarter projects — Elevation Dock and Tim Schafer’s1 designed Double Fine Adventure — reached $1M in funding. I backed Tim’s game, hoping for an iOS or Mac version.
It’s a major highlight for Kickstarter, which has been breaking the publisher barrier between creators and consumers for some time now. I believe the world will now start paying more attention to what they and others are doing, disrupting traditional business models and putting more power in the hands of people like you and me.
As Cabel Sasser put it:
Kickstarter. Steam. App Store. Food carts. Netflix. Square. I like this trend. DISRUPT ALL THE THINGS.
In other words, Kickstarter will make $100.0002 with just these two.
Update: Kickstarter posted a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day’s events.
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Tim Schafer is the designer of Grim Fandango and Psychonauts. ↩
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Kickstarter takes a 5% from all successful fundings. ↩