Yesterday, Backerkit announced new pricing and as predicted the 💀 of Crowdox at the end of 2021. The good news is that it’s cheaper than their old pricing model, but not surprisingly is often more expensive than CrowdOx. The real … Continued
Like many of you, I’ve lost track of time in this corona virus world. All I know is that once upon a time, there used to be this thing called conventions and at those conventions we were playtesting new Maximum … Continued
I’m a firm believer in bringing your own crowd to Kickstarter. Kickstarter will help boost your signal, but they’re not going to supply all of the backers that you need to fund and they’re a bit overzealous in the referrals … Continued
If you were interested in our dive into Kickstarter referral metrics, we inspired a much more indepth post by the Crowdfunding Nerds about the topic over here. The article does a great job expanding on what the referral metrics mean … Continued
This is a follow-up to my ongoing series of How to Advertise your Kickstarter posts, which directly resulted in me getting invited to the amazing “How to think like a Game Designer” podcast. As a disclaimer, remember there are NO SHORTCUTS to … Continued
When should I launch my Kickstarter? What’s the best time to launch? What should my funding goal be? How do I build up interest for my game? Creators ask these questions all the time and Kickstarter is all about bringing … Continued
We’ve been hard at work on the Maximum Apocalypse RPG in the background here for several years. Some of you may have even played it at one of our many Origins game sessions. Obviously Origins was pushed back this year … Continued
This blog post is 100% inspired by James Mathe’s excellent post about Pledge Managers. Like many creators, Mathe’s blog and facebook group helped me immensely when I was getting started. I am writing this to add to that discussion and … Continued
This is a follow-up to my Kickstarter Advertising ROI post after Gothic Horrors and my original How to Advertise your Kickstarter series of posts. You may want to refer to some of these past posts since I certainly reread them … Continued
Two weeks ago, we launched Lawyer Up on Kickstarter. It’s a game we have been laboring over for several years and a Kickstarter we had scheduled internally back during PAX Unplugged (Dec 2019). Of course that was all before COVID-19, … Continued