One of the organizers here.
We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets.
The Kickstarter model gave us both.
We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets.
The Kickstarter model gave us both.
I am increasingly struck by how many recent kickstarters are either indistinguishable from evites or deal with projects that any reasonable person could bootstrap on their own...
Especially with anything video game related that kind of comes off as just "online begging." You have companies like "River West Brands" that "acquires, redevelops, and monetizes iconic brand intellectual property" and has put out a kickstarter to remake the Colecovision http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rantmediagames/colecovis...