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43 unusual facts about Kickstarter


Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure

On October 16, 2013, Mike Stragey and Chris Tremmel announced that an HD sequel to the game is in the works under their company name Toy Ghost by starting a Kickstarter campaign in which they've set a $375,000 goal by November 20 to finish the game for a potential November 2014 release.

Chapin Sisters

It was funded via a successful Kickstarter campaign that ended up raising over 150% of the band's goal.

Christ Analogue

In April 2012 Wade Alin created and had successfully funded a Kickstarter project to re-create In Radiant Decay from a combination of the original recordings and new material.

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story is being financed via crowdfunding on the popular website Kickstarter and is scheduled to be released under the creative commons licence for free on September 19 2014 via The Pirate Bay.

Defense Grid: The Awakening

In July 2012, a Kickstarter project was created by Hidden Path Entertainment to help fund a sequel game titled

Edna's Goldfish

In November 2011, Connecticut's Asbestos Records and Chicago, IL's Underground Communiqué Records launched a fundraiser together on Kickstarter to release "Before You Knew Better" on vinyl, among other third-wave ska classics from Pilfers, The Pietasters, and Suburban Legends.

Emily Elbert

The album was recorded, arranged, performed, produced, and filmed by Berklee students, and was funded entirely by fans on the crowd-sourcing platform Kickstarter.

Fallen London

On September 3, 2013, Failbetter Games launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Sunless Sea, a PC adventure game taking place in the Echo Bazaar universe.

Fanaticon

The event's organizer, Phillip Chalker, says that the idea came from a joke, but then took it a step further and held a Kickstarter campaign that generated the necessary revenue in about two hours.

Frontier Developments

The company completed a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2012, where the new sequel's name Elite: Dangerous was revealed.

Frontier: First Encounters

Another sequel, Elite: Dangerous, was crowdfunded through a Kickstarter campaign, and is now in development, after languishing since 1998 under the title Elite 4.

Giana Sisters DS

In July 2012, Black Forest Games started a Kickstarter campaign for a new installment of The Great Giana Sisters tentatively titled Project Giana stating, "Project Giana is the grandchild of The Great Giana Sisters."

Harbinger Down

These videos not only went on to receive similar praise, but promote requests for Amalgamated Dynamics to launch a Kickstarter campaign to create fund their own independent horror film.

Funded by fan donations thorough Kickstarter, the film will feature exclusively practical creature effects created by ADI through the use of animatronics, prosthetic makeup, stop motion and miniature effects, as opposed to the use of computer generated imagery.

I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business

This album was funded through fan donations through Kickstarter.

IControlPad

A successor, the iControlPad 2, was successfully funded via Kickstarter in October 2012.

Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu

Their latest album, Armageddon Pozadi!, is being funded by a Boomstarter (Russian equivalent of Kickstarter or Pozible) page.

Jolkona

Similar to Kickstarter and DonorsChoose, Jolkona sets up online crowdfunding campaigns for specific programs, with donors receiving impact reports that detail how their contributions were used.

Junius / Rosetta

Funding for studio time and mixing of the tracks "TMA-3" and "4th of July" was made possible by fan donations through Kickstarter.

Kat Edmonson

Her second album, Way Down Low, consisting mostly of original work, came out in 2012, funded by a Kickstarter campaign.

Kobolds Ate My Baby!

On March 4, 2013, 9th Level initiated a 30-day Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a new printing of KAMB.

Marla Mason

The first four books in the series were published by Bantam Books imprint Bantam Spectra, but after the publisher dropped the series Pratt continued publishing the remainder of the series first through serialized versions and reader donations and then through successful Kickstarter campaigns.

Master of Magic

In April 2013, Wastelands Interactive launched a successful Kickstarter bid to fund the game Worlds of Magic and designer George Edward Purdy who worked on Master of Orion and Master of Magic joined the team.

Misery Signals

During the funding stages of this side project he provided incentives to individuals and bands in return for financial support using crowd funding platform Kickstarter.

Mother's Finest

In July 2013, Mother's Finest launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise funds for a new studio album.

Natalie LaRue

With Rob’s motivation, Natalie brought in Don Chaffer from Waterdeep to produce the record and in February 2012, Natalie and Rob posted an album announcement on Kickstarter.

Pilgrim of Eternity

Funds for continuation of the series were raised in part from a successful Kickstarter campaign, humorously dubbed a "Kirkstarter".

Project V13

Similar to Kickstarter, BIMAR has people give money to the company in the style of a fundraiser.

The game is reliant on the Black Isle Mayan Apocalypse Replacement Program, an InvestedIn powered system similar to the crowd funding website Kickstarter.

Rand Miller

On October 17, 2013, Miller announced the development of Obduction, intended to serve as the spiritual successor to the Myst series, via a Kickstarter campaign.

Roster McCabe

Roster used Kickstarter to jumpstart its latest album Through Space & Time.

Soap Life

The project was predominantly self-funded, but made effective use of Kickstarter to raise the money needed for post production work and subsequent distribution.

Story of the Year

Funded by Kickstarter, they have been filming the movie and it should be released sometime in 2013.

Teeny Ted from Turnip Town

The book was published using funds from a successful Kickstarter campaign with contributors' names shown on the dust jacket.

The Dirty Girls Social Club

In 2013, Valdes-Rodrigues began to raise funds for a movie adaptation of the book through a Kickstarter campaign.

The Oxbow Cure

On January 17, 2012 a Kickstarter campaign was launched with a fundraising target of $12,000 under the working title of Condition of the Heart. On February 17, 2012 funding closed with $12,150 pledged by 117 people.

The Satanic Scriptures

On Walpurgisnacht of 2012, a successful Kickstarter project was launched to pre-sell Las Escrituras Satánicas, the Spanish language edition.

The Scarlet Worm

Funding for The Scarlet Worm was partially accomplished through a successful Kickstarter campaign.

The Veer Union

In early 2013, the band started a Kickstarter to help raise money towards working on future music.

Tyvek

Tyvek has also been used in a recent project on the crowd-source funding website, Kickstarter.

Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson

He did not have the funds to begin production, so decided to use Kickstarter to raise the necessary financing.

Uprise Books Project

In November 2011, the organization raised USD $10,000 from a Kickstarter campaign.

Wish I Was Here

On April 24, 2013 director Zach Braff launched the Kickstarter campaign for his new upcoming comedy film Wish I Was Here to make $2 million to boost his project, based on his own script co-written with his brother Adam J. Braff.


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April Smith and the Great Picture Show

"Colors" from "Songs for a Sinking Ship" was used in an episode of NPR's Planet Money podcast, released in early May, about how trends are picked up and used in clothing - specifically the colors chosen for the Planet Money t-shirts offered through their Kickstarter page.

ArtistShare

In February 2013, it was reported that ArtistShare was not able to show that Kickstarter was infringing its patent, as a result of how U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty construed the claims of the patent.

B-Sides and Seasides

Includes two new songs "Hallelujah" and "Make It Right" ( from the touring EP "Kickstarter" and "Nothing Without You" ) and covers of Radiohead's "Karma Police" and of Brand New, "Tautou", where the band has created an extended version for the song.

Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony

The film, funded through crowd-sourcing via Kickstarter, was originally envisioned to follow voice actor and executive producer John de Lancie to the 2012 Summer BronyCon in New Jersey.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Lee confirmed that director Steven Soderbergh contributed $10,000 to Lee's Kickstarter fundraiser to get the film launched into production.

Daniel Mustard

Mustard's second release, Fragments of Bone, was completed and released using funding from a Kickstarter campaign on September 25, 2012 and was produced by James Bertuzzi.

Ramshackle Glory

In early 2013 it was announced that Ramshackle Glory would be releasing a split LP with Ghost Mice, and a kickstarter fund was launched adjacently.

The Great Giana Sisters

In July 2012, Black Forest Games started a Kickstarter campaign for a new installment of The Great Giana Sisters, originally titled Project Giana and later retitled Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, describing the project as "the grandchild of The Great Giana Sisters."

Wait for the Siren

Following the departure of bandmates Randy Torres and Stephen Dail, and the completed record deal with their label, singer Andrew Schwab turned to Kickstarter to fund the band's next album.