Crowd funding, and unavoidably Kickstarter.com, is one of those things? that you can?t quite make generalizations about because it encompasses a multitude of different odds and ends, from Video Games to advanced wristwatches. But we can all certainly agree that it works! Programs like this, and more recently: Steam?s Greenlight Program, are seen as a sign of a changing industry that is beginning to favor the indie developer over the crass, triple-A studio, and through the exclusive use of donations, a new paradigm has been created in which the consumer is also the producer. Seeing as crowd funding has gained popularity exponentially in just the last year, a wave of new games have gone into production, often referred to as the ?Kickstarter Generation?.
It would seem as though at present, this is the way to get your ideas off the ground. And I would agree that it certainly is somewhere to begin; both Kickstarter and Greenlight have brought many interesting games to the public?s attention. However, the sustainability of the more donation-oriented funds (read Kickstarter) is uncertain. Many indie games, once they have acquired proper funds, finish the production stage in just a few years; as a result, one can expect many of these projects to reach completion sometime between 2014 and 2015. That time period may spell an end to ?crowd funding era?.
Few of these games provide in depth details concerning their nature on the donation pages, such as trailers, leaving a lot to speculation, and making it a bit more likely that some folks will walk away feeling as though they didn?t get their money?s worth. If that ends up being the case, a massive source of donations will drop out of the crowd funding user base, and fewer and fewer games will begin to get past the design stage due to a lack of funding. Though between now and ?crowd funding apocalypse?, more donation pages are going to start cropping up, ensuring a greater longevity in crowd funding?s viability, and these future projects will finish some time after those of the Kickstarter Generation, regardless of how well received the latter games are, it even makes it possible that crowd funding?s popularity can be recovered by these later releases.
Even more assuringly, this is the indie gaming market we?re talking about here: one not prone to disappointments, in contrast to its triple-A brother. If 2015 doesn?t spell the end to Kickstarter, it may very well usher in a second Kickstarter Generation to uphold the health of the game industry as a whole, presenting a rather bright future for a medium that some are starting to think is stagnating a bit. Until we know for sure, it is easy to see that most people have confidence, at least, given the millions upon millions of dollars video game related projects alone generate on Kickstarter?s service.
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