Welcome to the 50th Episode of Funding the Dream on Kickstarter. This episode is just you and me talking about the state of the industry and the tsunami that is coming.
There are currently 90 active game projects on Kickstarter right now. Four games have broken the $100,000 mark and 2 have broken the $200,000 mark.
And that is just the first four months of April. I'm estimating that there will be 400 to 600 successful game projects in 2012. And here's the problem: Where are we going to put them all? I don't mean where are we going to fit them on our shelves at home. I mean, what store has the room on their shelves to put 400 new games, not counting the hundreds they receive already through normal channels.
The system is broken and 2012 is the year the system breaks down. Take a listen and join me and you and I chat about the state of the industry and the new world order that is emerging.
I'm catching up on my podcast listening, and listening to your dire warnings here in Episode 50 made me think of a relatively recent thread on BoardGameGeek. In the thread (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/779276/suppose-i-go-rogue), the designer/publisher of Gunship: First Strike was asking how he should proceed with selling/distributing the game now that he's successfully funded on Kickstarter. Unfortunately, in the end he was swayed by the many voices insisting that he had to follow the conventional 3-tiered distribution model rather than "going rogue" like he sort of had an inkling to do.
I guess he should have talked to you instead...
Posted by: Chris Norwood | 05/01/2012 at 08:46 AM