{"id":92127,"date":"2019-04-17T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340979"},"modified":"2019-04-17T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:38:00","slug":"kickstarters-games-category-surpasses-1-billion-in-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/kickstarters-games-category-surpasses-1-billion-in-pledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter&#8217;s games category surpasses $1 billion in pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kickstarter\u2019s games category has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/blog\/1-billion-and-counting-pledged-to-games\">surpassed $1 billion in pledges,<\/a> a milestone hit roughly a decade into the crowdfunding platform&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the $1 billion figure includes both video games and tabletop games, and Kickstarter\u2019s blog post on the milestone&nbsp;unfortunately&nbsp;doesn\u2019t include a deeper numbers breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, that $1 billion in pledges is spread across 17,000 funded games projects, and was paid up by more than 3.2 million backers.<\/p>\n<p>The post does call out a handful of notable video game campaigns across the years, including the <em>Banner Saga <\/em>($723,886 pledged), <em>Darkest Dungeon <\/em>($313,337 pledged), and <em>Shovel Knight <\/em>($311,502 pledged).<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2018, the games category had just hit $946 million in pledges so this means that 2019 has seen around $54 million in just these early months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/blogs\/ThomasBidaux\/20190115\/334360\/Games_and_Crowdfunding_in_2018.php\">data from Ico Partners<\/a> however, the bulk of game-related pledges in just 2018 were directed at board games, not video games. Successful tabletop projects saw $165.3 million in pledges last year, compared to only $15.8 million for video game projects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kickstarter\u2019s games category has surpassed $1 billion in pledges, a milestone hit roughly a decade into the crowdfunding platform&#8217;s life. It is worth noting that the $1 billion figure includes both video games and tabletop games, and Kickstarter\u2019s blog post on the milestone&nbsp;unfortunately&nbsp;doesn\u2019t include a deeper numbers breakdown. All in all, that $1 billion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}