Project gets $49,972 out of $50,000 goal.
Creator says "clearly there simply isn't that much interest in building the kind of game I envisioned."
o.O;
o.O;
He really has been working on this game forever, and will probably make another go at it eventually.
He's a friend of mine, though I haven't spoken with him since yesterday before the KickStarter ended. If only he'd called, I would have put in the money myself, but I am led to believe that it wasn't that close until the last seconds. Asking a friend to put in $28 is easy; $828 is a bit more of a stretch.
The unfortunate thing about game development Kickstarters is that the worst thing that can happen is that you make exactly your goal.
If you ask for $5000. Chances are you're going to get closer to that, than $50,000. If you ask for $500,000. Chances are you're going to get higher than the $5,000.
Plenty of people have gone for the big dollars. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit... Granted it's Obsidian, but people still blew it out the water.
But you can't ask for $50k, then get frustrated that's almost how much you get? You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.