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Several impressive numbers in there.

100 backers at $1,000 a shot.

$38 per pledge.

Oh and exceeding the goal by nearly $3 million.

Awesome stuff! Truly a great day for the project, Kickstarter and the internet overall. Not only traditional publishers trembling, but their establishment middlemen financiers...only place to go from here is up with any single inventor or team with a concept that can catch the eye of the funding crowd!

Traditional publishers trembling? That would seem unlikely to me given that one of the legends of the game development community only managed to raise a budget equivalent to an average XBLA game.

First, patience.

Second... if you don't try to pace the AAA games on graphics quality or the other de rigeur time and money sinks that add disproportionately little to the final experience, you can do a lot with that amount of money.

An average XBLA game makes millions?

I need to change careers.

He was talking about budget, not profits. I don't know about average but I wouldn't be surprised if quite a bit of XBLA/PSN (not XBLIG) are made at around that budget point (AAA games on the other hand commonly have budgets in the 10s of millions, some ever more).

The common XBLA game probably loses money.

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